Japanese cost management / [edited by] Yasuhiro Monden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monden, Yasuhiro, 1940-

Series:

Series on technology management ; vol. 4.

Series on technology management ; vol. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cost control.

Industrial management.

Cost accounting--Japan.

Cost accounting.

Costs, Industrial--Japan.

Costs, Industrial.

Physical Description:

xii, 490 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the systems of cost reduction that originated in Japan. These are mostly new systems that did not exist in western practices before they were utilized in Japan. The book also presents the Japanese ways of carrying out the globally popular cost reduction practices. It describes the strategic cost management conducted by top management through alliances between companies and/or between government and industry. It shows the functional cost reduction systems along the various phases of the product life cycle, as follows: R&D --> Product development --> Manufacturing --> Administration and indirect operations. It conducts some humanistic or behavioral aspects of Japanese cost reduction systems.

Contents:

pt. 1. Strategic cost management. ch. 1. Strategic cost decisions in the industry as a whole / Kozo Suzuki

ch. 2. Strategic cost reduction through mutual relationships between companies, industry groups and government / Kozo Suzuki

pt. 2. Cost management in R&D. ch. 3. Cost management in R&D: a side of Japanese management / Shunzo Matsuoka

ch. 4. R&D management and management accounting in Japan: case studies of selected Japanese pharmaceutical companies / Takayuki Asada

pt. 3. Cost management in new product development. ch. 5. Target costing and kaizen costing in Japanese automobile companies / Yasuhiro Monden and Kazuki Hamada

ch. 6. Analysis of variation of target costing practices in the camera industry / Kentaro Koga

ch. 7. A method for simultaneously achieving cost reduction and quality improvement / Kazuki Hamada

ch. 8. How QFD and VE should be combined for achieving quality & cost in product development / Mahfuzul Hoque ... [et al.]

pt. 4. Cost management of manufacturing activities. ch. 9. Just-in-time and its cost reduction framework / Henry Aigbedo

ch. 10. Kaizen costing: its function and structure compared to standard costing / Yasuhiro Monden and John Y. Lee

ch. 11. Cost management system integrated into TPM / Shufuku Hiraoka

ch. 12. How Japanese companies are using the "standard cost" for managing costs / Gun-Yung Lee

pt. 5. Cost management in administrative and factory indirect departments. ch. 13. Management accounting system for productivity improvement in administrative departments: Monden's kaizen system / Yasuhiro Monden

ch. 14. Reform works in administrative and indirect departments: the case study of Z company / Shufuku Hiraoka

ch. 15. A case-study of operational restructuring using ABM / Kazuhito Miura, Noriko Ikeda and Yoshio Matsushita

ch. 16. The cost reduction approach to the manufacturing administrative departments in a Japanese industrial machinery manufacturing company / Yoshiyuki Nagasaka

pt. 6. Cost management from marketing strategy. ch. 17. Strategic control of marketing activities using the ABC system / Noboru Ogura

pt. 7. Human factors in cost management. ch. 18. Japanese management style in achieving the cost reduction targets / Gun-Yung Lee

ch. 19. A management system for the simultaneous attainment of customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction / Kazuki Hamada

pt. 8. Cost management in budgetary control system. ch. 20. Profit evaluation measures for the division managers in Japanese decentralized company - focusing on controllable and corporate costs / Noriko Hoshi and Yasuhiro Monden

ch. 21. Culture and budget control practices: a study of manufacturing companies in U.S.A. and Japan / Susumu Ueno.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-482) and index.

ISBN:

9781848160385

1848160380