Table of Contents

1: Adjusting to Continuously Changing Times
2: The Corporate Budget Process - moving beyond the incremental approach
3: Outsourcing Non-core Activities
4: Efficiency or Effectiveness? - the role of performance management
5: Tracing the Real Costs of Organisational Activities - activity-based costing
6: Overhead Value Analysis
7: Cost Responsibility and Cultivating Cost Awareness
8: The Cost and Value of Information Technology
9: Strategic Reappraisal - The Ultimate Thrust in Cost Control

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Key points and a checklist are included at the end of every chapter
Highlights and examines the many pitfalls managers face in the current economic climate
The author is a cost management and marketing expert and lectures in management control at the HEC School of Management