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Activity-Based Costing Making It Work for Small and Mid-Sized Companies, 2nd Edition

Name: Activity-Based Costing
Brand: John Wiley & Sons
SKU: 9780471237549
Price: 790.00 HKD
Availability: OutOfStock
Author: Douglas T. Hicks
ISBN: 9780471237549

By Douglas T. Hicks

John Wiley & Sons July 2002

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780471237549
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication: July 2002
Format: Paperback , 384 pages
Jurisdiction: International or US ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

* A practical, cost-effective guide to ABC for small to medium companies.
* Identifies the key cost related issues in organizations and shows how to develop a cost-flow structure that reflects the organization's cost behavior.
* Feature an ongoing case study throughout the book documents the model-building process.
* Provides a spreadsheet model blueprint that details data flows.
* Shows how a cost model of an organization can be developed using basic spreadsheet software on a PC.

Activity-Based Costing: The First Decade.

Strange Case of Ace Manufacturing.

What Is Activity-Based Costing.

Deadly Virus of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles: Determining True Economic Costs.

Logic of Activity-Based Costing.

Case Study: ACME Distributors.

Decision Costing: The Real Reason for Activity-Based Costs.

Activity-Based Costing Model Toolbox.

Developing Cost Flow-Down Structures: Case Studies.

Building a Cost Accumulation and Distribution Model.

Small-Time manufacturing: Developing the Conceptual Model.

Small-Time Manufacturing: Building the Cost Accumulation and Distribution Model, Part 1-Cost Accumulation.

Small- Time Manufacturing: Building the Cost Accumulation and Distribution Model, Part 2--Cost Distribution.

Small-Time Manufacturing: Product Costing.

Small-Time Manufacturing: Discrete Event Simulation or "What If?" Analysis.

Small-Time Manufacturing: Multiyear Costing and Pricing.

Impediments to Adopting Activity-Based Costing at the Small and Mid-Sized Organization.

Making Activity-Based Costing Work at the Small and Mid-Sized Business.

Index.

About the Author

DOUGLAS T. HICKS, CPA, CMC, is a Senior Managing Consultant at BKD, LLP, the nation's eighth largest accounting and consulting firm, and Team Leader of their Decision Costing Services practice. Before entering consulting in 1985, he spent fifteen years in public accounting at Ernst & Young, and in industry with Hayes-Albion Corporation and Kelsey-Hayes Company. Hicks is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Michigan Association of CPAs, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Institute of Management Consultants. He is also the author of Activity-Based Costing for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses: An Implementation Guide, published by Wiley.

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