Learn the 25 keys to understand how financial reporting and cash flow become the essential tools to determining success or failure:
Key 1. Strategic cost management.
Key 2. Understanding costs and cost behavior.
Key 3. Costing systems.
Key 4. Assigning indirect costs.
Key 5. Activity-based costing.
Key 6. Just-in-time production system.
Key 7. Inventory control.
Key 8. Quality as a cost driver.
Key 9. Cost-Volume-Profit relationships.
Key 10. Customer profitability analysis.
Key 11. Relevant costs for managerial decisions.
Key 12. Pricing and product mix analysis.
Key 13. Budgeting and control.
Key 14. Cash management.
Key 15. Capital budgeting.
Key 16. Control in an age of empowerment.
Key 17. Target costing and value engineering.
Key 18. Benchmarking and kaizen.
Key 19. Managing costs across the entire supply chain.
Key 20. Performance measurement and reward systems.
Key 21. Time as a competitive factor.
Key 22. Total quality management.
Key 23. Performance measures in multi-unit organizations.
Key 24. Transfer pricing.
Key 25. Balanced scoreboard.
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