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- A Shipshape Costing Structure: U.S. Navy Improves Financial Visibility With Activity-Based Cost Management
- Encouraging military leaders to look at the business aspects of war is not always an easy task, but the U.S. Navy does it with an activity-based cost management (ABC/M) program that utilizes SAS Activity-Based Management software. Using ABC/M financial intelligence to break down costs by individual activities, leaders identify resource...
- Tags: Financial, Cost Management, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Furniture Manufacturer Builds a Better Network and Cost Management/Marketing Solution
- Over the last two years, Carolina's Choice by Williams, Inc., has been challenged to keep the cost of goods under control as the price of raw materials fluctuated wildly. Capturing, changing, and communicating the new cost information to its sales channel needed to happen more rapidly. With the help of...
- Tags: Network, Cost Management, Sales Strategy, Managerial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance
- Case studies
- The Evolution of Activity-Based Business Intelligence (ABBI)
- Born from the desks of accountants, Activity-Based Costing ABC is rapidly transforming from a cost management tool to a strategic weapon, as organizations around the world are faced with seemingly unprecedented competitive pressures. The two principal drivers of these pressures are the tangible existence of a global marketplace and shareholder/...
- Tags: Cost Management, SAS Institute, Managerial Accounting, Finance
- White papers
- Do Organizations Consider Strategic Cost Management When They Outsource to China?
- In today's economy, the driving force behind global competition can be summarized in a single equation: Value = (Quality + Technology + Service + Cycle Time) / Price. At the same time, the trend towards increasing outsourcing to China seems to focus entirely on the denominator - price. Although outsourcing...
- Tags: China, Cost Management, Outsource, Equation, SAS Institute, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers
- Teaching Cost Management to Students of Engineering: Lessons From a Different Battlefield
- The authors believe Activity-Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) is needed and powerful. Many years of professional and academic work have taught the author a few things, including the notion that managerial decisions and controls must be firmly assisted by knowledge tools. When he was first introduced to ABC - in its early...
- Tags: Cost Management, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance
- White papers
- Schedule and Cost Control
- View Available Dates and Locations Learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to develop a work breakdown schedule, grasp diagramming techniques, identify task relationships, determine the critical path, employ estimating techniques, and...
- Tags: Technique, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Cost Management, Cost Control, Work Breakdown Structure, Productivity, Project Management, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Finance
- Training 2008-02-01
- Supply Chain Cost Visibility: A New Perspective to Cost Management
- As the owner of one of the world's largest and most complex supply chain ecosystems, HP has extensive and ongoing experience with the critical issues surrounding supply chain cost visibility. Seeking faster and more closely targeted response to shifting marketplace demands, HP developed its own comprehensive strategy framework for managing...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cost Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-02-01
- print cost management system
- they gave me a project and the project should perform the following.It has to tell me the time,date, colour typewhether its using colour or black ink,page type,count pages,page formate,document type and the number of pages printed.I have to us web MMC-base.net application and connect it to the SQL server 2000.
- Tags: Malecia@..., programming, cost management
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- MenuCostPro (exe)
- MenuCostPro is an easy-to-use program for calculating and analyzing menu prices. Ideal for owners of restaurants, bed and breakfasts and small hotels that want a fully functional cost management tool without spending a fortune. MenuCostPro has most of the functions of other software programs costing five times as much: ingredients...
- Tags: Cost Management, MenuCostPro, Managerial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-11-08
- Activity-Based Cost Management
- The traditional "overhead functions" of a business, once widely criticized by internal customers, are becoming today's shared services organizations. The initial consolidation of functions into a single service provider may have been designed simply to remove redundancies and save costs. However, a pleasant, unexpected consequence of shared services can be...
- Tags: Function, Cost Management, SAS Institute, Service Provider, Managerial Accounting, Business Services, Finance
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Measure and manage to keep TCO in control
- By Bill KirwinIn these difficult economic times, it is essential that IS organizations understand and manage their costs. Controlling total cost of ownership TCO requires measurement and management. Each phase of TCO control demands a consistency that enables it to be a common element for communication, relationship management, and governance.The...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, TCO
- Technical articles 2003-06-26
- Follow this model for effective IT cost management
- To achieve effective cost management, you must understand cost structure and analyze the costs involved. This model uses two views, function and category, to frame cost structure.Although most CIOs strive to shift the focus on IT costs to one of business value, they realize that ongoing cost management is crucial...
- Tags: Managerial accounting, Strategy, Peter Hennigan, cost management, information technology, IT cost
- Technical articles 2002-09-16
- Use this downloadable chart template to keep cost management on track
- Effective cost management relies on understanding cost structure and analyzing costs flowing through that structure. Download this IT chart of accounts template and use it to track specific tech costs and whether cost management approaches stay on goal.Effective cost management is dependent on understanding cost structure and analyzing the costs...
- Tags: Managerial accounting, Strategy, Judith N. Mottl, IT chart, cost management, information technology, Peter Hennigan
- Technical articles 2002-09-16
Additional Resources
- Know the Cost of Filing Your Paper Documents
- This document is an overview of some information found in the literature on the cost and savings of document management.Already many reports have been written about document management by a number of known research institutes. Document Management is actually a name that is used for many different solutions that have...
- Tags: Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- White papers 2001-10-20
- Accelerate Compliance With Integrated Content and Records Management
- New regulations, the threat of litigation and the spiraling cost of effective storage place company record-keeping, content and data management practices under unprecedented scrutiny. Proactive information lifecycle management ILM and an integrated approach to enterprise content management, records management and information storage systems, can help you get maximum value from...
- Tags: Compliance, EMC Corp., Records Management, Storage, Managerial Accounting, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Hardware, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- New Ways to Cut Costs in '05: Travel and Meeting Management
- Many organizations report they are entering into 2005 with a renewed interest in managing costs. A much-overlooked area for cost management is travel and meeting management. This webcast will examine new survey data that reveals how finance professionals perceive spend management for meetings and hear from experts on how to...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., Survey, Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Cost Center Report (xls)
- Cost centre management and analysis tool for finance professionals and business managers. Enhance your management accounting and cost accounting functions with this report for Microsoft Excel. From monthly budget versus actual data to transaction details. Intuitive functionality and graphical elements that will instill cost ownership with business managers and allow...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial Accounting, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2006-02-23
- Windows Vista Management Features
- Windows Vista offers many new and improved management and troubleshooting features designed to minimize IT departments' support and maintenance costs. This paper describes the most important manageability improvements and their benefits. Windows Vista represents a significant step in Microsoft's commitment to reducing Windows computers' total cost of ownership TCO. Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Roi/Tco, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- White papers
- GM DAEWOO: 20 Percent Cost Savings
- This webcast shows how the HP Total Print Management solution not only provide cost savings and productivity improvements, but also help achieve a more balanced deployment and centralized management.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., General Motors Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Cost Analysis Using CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution
- As with any capital expenditure, the benefits provided by CiscoWorks network management products must outweigh the investment required. One way to provide evidence of these benefits is to compare the cost savings of using Cisco network management products to a traditional, manual approach. It is difficult...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Analysis, Network Management, Network Administration, Networking
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