Cost management in the public sector
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Cost management in the public sector
Longman Information and Reference, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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