Cost management in the public sector
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Cost management in the public sector
Longman Information and Reference, c1994
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A guide to cost management issues and techniques, for managers in the public sector seeking to encourage greater efficiency and value for money. It examines a variety of approaches to cost management, cost control and control management, and is suitable for junior, middle and senior managers.
Table of Contents
- Reasons for change
- the search for efficiency - alternative concepts, measurement of efficiency, the relationship to cost reduction and policy implementation
- cost management, an activity-based methodology - the nature of activity-based costing - its use in product and service output costing, cost reduction programmes, product and service design implications, customer analysis
- alternative approaches to cost management - benchmarking and value chain analysis, ratio analysis, business unit charging, functional cost analysis, headcount analysis
- cost management - capital projects
- planning for cost control
- contract management.
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