Download or read book Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers written by Len Holm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers. Many textbooks on the market focus on the theoretical principles of accounting and finance required for head office staff like the chief financial officer (CFO) of a construction firm. This book's unique practical approach focuses on the activities of the construction management team, including the project manager, superintendent, project engineer, and jobsite cost engineers and cost accountants. In short, this book provides a seamless connection between cost accounting and construction project management from the construction management practitioner’s perspective. Following a complete accounting cycle, from the original estimate through cost controls to financial close-out, the book makes use of one commercial construction project case study throughout. It covers key topics like financial statements, ratios, cost control, earned value, equipment depreciation, cash flow, and pay requests. But unlike other texts, this book also covers additional financial responsibilities such as cost estimates, change orders, and project close-out. Also included are more advanced accounting and financial topics such as supply chain management, activity-based accounting, lean construction techniques, taxes, and the developer’s pro forma. Each chapter contains review questions and applied exercises and the book is supplemented with an eResource with instructor manual, estimates and schedules, further cases and figures from the book. This textbook is ideal for use in all cost accounting and financial management classes on both undergraduate and graduate level construction management or construction engineering programs.
Download or read book Essentials of Cost Management written by Catherine Stenzel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, practical survey of cost management methods Essentials of Cost Management provides an unbiased survey and explanation of the cost management approaches and methods currently available for immediate application in day-to-day activities. Rather than advocate a particular method, this book assists readers in choosing the best approach or blend of cost management strategies to address specific business problems. The expert authors also discuss cutting-edge topics such as target costing, capacity management, and activity-based costing/management.
Download or read book Cost Management written by Edward Blocher and published by McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the strategic management topics in cost accounting. This title helps students to understand about the management and the role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed. It addresses issues such as: How does a firm compete? and What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed?
Download or read book Financial and Cost Concepts for Construction Management written by Daniel W. Halpin and published by . This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for engineering students in upper-level courses of construction management or cost control, this text provides a thorough grounding in all aspects of financial management so that the construction engineering manager can understand how to control costs and communicate with the accountant or bookkeeper. Features include explanations of financial documents and cost reports and an overview of bookkeeping fundamentals.
Download or read book Handbook of Cost Management written by Roman L. Weil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Cost Management, Second Edition covers all of the essential topics in cost management and accounting. It includes conventional topics, such as job costing and cost allocation, as well as such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.
Download or read book The Cost Management Toolbox written by Lianabel Oliver and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a presentation of how to use financial information to manage costs. It explains how the financial processes of an organization are interrelated, and interprets these processes in the context of the firm's strategic objectives and long-term goals.
Download or read book Cost Management for Nonprofit and Voluntary Organisations written by Zahirul Hoque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, nonprofit and voluntary organisations have faced challenges and unanticipated pressures as a result of increased competition for funding, technological advancements, the need to comply with government regulations, and increased social and community expectations regarding greater accountability and transparency. Cost accounting and cost management tools are considered to be a means of providing adequate and quality information for management control for all sorts of organisations, including nonprofits. Using empirical evidence from the Australian nonprofit sector, this research monograph offers insight into how nonprofit and voluntary organisations control and manage the costs of their operations and projects through cost accounting and cost management tools. The book will be of benefit to a range of stakeholders in the sector, including financial and management accountants, professional accounting bodies, the government, policymakers, academics, consultants and operational managers.
Download or read book Strategic Cost Management written by John K. Shank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.
Download or read book Cost Management written by Don R. Hansen and published by South Western Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost Management: Accounting and Control emphasizes that changing conditions often require a change in cost management systems. Emphasizing this point stresses the dynamic and exciting nature of the field. By taking a systems approach -- one that first covers functional-based cost and control and then activity-based cost systems -- students understand how to understand and manage any cost management system.
Download or read book The Ernst Young Guide to Total Cost Management written by Ernst & Young LLP and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the use of non-technical language it enables readers to understand the underlying dynamics of cost in order to facilitate effective decisions regarding products and services, workflows, capital investments and day-to-day monitoring of their business. Combining customer's needs and reactions with the financial awareness of a company's strengths and weaknesses, it ties into all current, major business concerns, including environmental awareness and international competitiveness. Features case studies, checklists and self-assessment techniques that will aid readers in initiating a total cost management program.
Download or read book Cost and Management Accounting written by Dr. B. K. Mehta and published by SBPD Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eBooks is authored by proficient Teachers and Professors. The Text of the eBooks is simple and lucid. The contents of the book have been organised carefully and to the point.
Download or read book Management and Cost Accounting written by Andreas Taschner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management and cost accounting has been the basic toolbox in business administration for decades. Today it is an integral part of all curricula in business education and no student can afford not to be familiar with its basic concepts and instruments. At the same time, business in general, and management accounting in particular, is becoming more and more international. English clearly has evolved as the "lingua franca" of international business. Academics, students as well as practitioners exchange their views and ideas, discuss concepts and communicate with each other in English. This is certainly also true for cost accounting and management accounting. Management Accounting is becoming increasingly international. "Management and Cost Accounting" is a new English language textbook covering concepts and instruments of cost and management accounting at an introductory level (Bachelor, but also suited for MBA courses due to strong focus on practical applications and cases). This textbook covers all topics that are relevant in management accounting in business organizations and that are typically covered in German and Central European Bachelor classes on cost accounting and management accounting. After an introduction to the topic, including major differences between the German approach and the purely Anglo-Saxon approach of management accounting, the book describes different cost terms and concepts applied in German cost accounting, The book is much more specific here compared to US-American standard textbooks. Based on different cost concepts, the topic of cost behavior is discussed, including the determination of cost functions. The heart of the book guides the reader through the general structure of a fully developed cost accounting system following the German and Central European standard: It starts with cost type accounting, moves on to cost center accounting and finally deals with cost unit accounting, assigning cost to goods and services offered in the market. The remaining parts of the book deal with decision making and how management and cost accounting data can support managers in this task. A comparison of absorption costing and variable costing introduces the reader to management decisions such as product portfolio and outsourcing decisions. Additionally, cost-volume-profit analysis (break-even-analysis) is covered. The book closes with a comprehensive treatment of cost planning and variance analysis.
Download or read book Managerial Cost Accounting Concepts and Standards for the Federal Government written by United States. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases and Readings in Strategic Cost Management for Use with Cost Management written by Edward Blocher and published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Cost and Management Accounting written by Zahirul Hoque and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is intended primarily for practitioners such as accountants, auditors, financial analysts, business managers, and chief executives. The primary focus of this book is on techniques and concepts of cost and management accounting for strategic business decisions. In order to survive in the changing business environment, organizations should rethink their strategic philosophy and the role of management accounting. Management accounting systems exist to help managers make economic decisions. In preparing and assessing their strategic plans, organizations need information on many areas of their business environment. Management accounting is also in a process of change. While some businesses continue to use conventional methods of costing, performance measurement and cost analysis, increasing numbers are adopting activity based cost allocation system, strategic oriented investment decisions models, and multiple performance measures such as the Balanced Scorecard. This handbook focuses on both conventional and contemporary issues in cost and management accounting. It presents an intriguing combination of 20 chapters, separated for presentation purpose into seven themes, dealing respectively with: organizational planning and controls; costing for business decisions; pricing decisions; capital budgeting decisions; performance measurement and benchmarking; contemporary management accounting tools; and management accounting for the public sector. All chapters in this handbook provide both retrospective and modern views and commentaries by knowledgeable scholars in the field, who are able to offer unique insights on the changing role of cost and management accounting in today's businesses.
Download or read book Cost Accounting Management written by Emmanuel Kasozi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ), course: Business Administration, language: English, abstract: To make production effectively, costs like labor, overhead and material costs all together must be incurred. In fact in the production process every cost plays it role to make the production effective. Take an example of labor cost no production can take place without labor cost, however much it’s the use of machines but the devices too are controlled by labor or humans. Cost reveals financial evaluation or assessments of resources prolonged to accomplish the goal like producing conducive service. In other words cost is the driver of all the income and expenditure statements. Costs appear everywhere be it in financial accounting, management accounting and in cost accounting governed by its principles. Therefore it should be noted that cost accounting enables the company and the managers to have information about the period financial reports. But this doesn’t mean that the released reports are the generally accepted ones by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Download or read book MANAGEMENT AND COST ACCOUNTING written by COLIN M. DRURY and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
