Costing for the fashion industry / Nathalie Evans, Michael Jeffrey, Susan Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Nathalie (Nathalie Nicole Françoise), author.

Jeffrey, Michael, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade--Costs.

Clothing trade.

Fashion merchandising.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; Bloomsbury, 2020.

Summary:

"Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable. Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the changing nature of cost and the importance of global awareness and new markets, as well as expanded coverage of internationalization strategies for SMEs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Small and Medium-Sized (SMEs) Clothing Businesses 2. Risk Management 3. Global Awareness and New Markets 4. Product Cost When Sourcing

5. The Nature of Clothing Manufacture and the Need for Costing

6. The Elements of Cost 7. Costing Over Periods of Time 8. Product Cost-Job Costing

9. Marginal Costing

10. Break-Even Analysis

11. Budgeting and Standard Costing

12. The Changing Nature of Cost 13. Activity-Based Costing

14. Capital Investment Decisions

Further resources

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020).

Previous edition entered under: Michael Jeffrey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350078925

1350078921

OCLC:

1118981341