Lecture Management accounting: An Australian perspective: Chapter 15 - Kim Langfield-Smith

This chapter is an expansion of chapter 14 from the second edition, and relates contemporary cost management and time management to the generation of customer value. As in the previous edition, cost management techniques include activity-based management, business process re-engineering, and life-cycle costing. There is a more detailed coverage of target costing. The new material on time-based management includes measures of break-even time and time-to-market, and identifying and managing time drivers.