The book provides the tools for determining which costs a company should cut,without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services. It shows how to use throughput analysis in order to locate bottleneck operations in a company,which in turn dictates where capital investments should (and should not) be made. The book delves into process analysis, to determine where excess resources are being used in a business process. Further, it describes the total cost of ownership, showing how a single purchasing decision actually snowballs into a variety of ancillary costs. The book also notes the use of zero-based budgeting, which is a good analysis tool for determining which activities should be funded again in the following year. The book describes how just-in-time systems can be used to eliminate inventory costs, as well as the use of business unit analysis to see if entire business units should be eliminated. Examples are used throughout to show how much cost can potentially be eliminated through the use of cost reduction analysis.Steven Bragg, CPA, (Centennial, CO), has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Youngand auditor at Deloitte & Touche. He has published 34 books through John Wiley & Sons. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, anMBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-58726-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 26/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés