Personal Finance
Author: Jack R Kapoor
Kapoor/Dlabay/Hughes’ Personal Finance is the #1 market-leading Personal Finance text. It provides comprehensive coverage of personal financial planning in the areas of money management, career planning, taxes, consumer credit, housing and other consumer decisions, legal protection, insurance, investments, retirement planning, and estate planning. The goal of this text is to teach students the fundamentals of financial planning so they can make informed choices related to spending, saving, borrowing, and investing that lead to long-term financial security. Personal Finance, 8/e provides many financial planning tools using a step-by-step approach to help students identify and evaluate choices as well as understand the consequences of decisions in terms of opportunity costs.
Design of Cost Management Systems
Author: Robin Cooper
Providing valuable insight into the latest practice and design philosophies, this collection of readings and cases analyzes the defects that exist with traditional cost management systems, and shows how to design systems that will benefit a wide range of organizations. Opens with a thorough introduction to cost systems - with discussions on their use, product and process costing, operational control, financial reporting, and strategic relevance - and explores target costing, and ABC and product design and development. Considers the foundations of activity-based costing, including its necessity for companies, cost hierarchy, and activity attributes, and dedicates entire sections to the use of cost systems for managing customer and supplier relationships, and for designing and developing new products. Second Edition features include many new cases and a critical study of service industry and activity-based budgeting. For management consultants, CFO's, and controllers.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Cost and Performance Management Systems | 1 |
| 2 | Traditional Stage II Cost Systems: Linking Resource Expenses to Cost Centers and Cost Objects | 57 |
| 3 | Stage III Systems for Learning and Improvement | 136 |
| 4 | Activity-Based Costing: Introduction | 208 |
| 5 | Measuring the Cost of Resource Capacity | 243 |
| 6 | Operational and Strategic Activity-Based Management in Manufacturing Companies | 277 |
| 7 | Strategic Activity-Based Management for Customers and Suppliers | 341 |
| 8 | Strategic Activity-Based Management: Product Development | 395 |
| 9 | Applying ABC to Service Industries | 454 |
| 10 | Stage IV: Integrated Cost Systems | 492 |
| 11 | Stage IV: Using ABC for Budgeting and Transfer Pricing | 527 |
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