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Author Geiger, Dale R

Title Cents of mission : using cost management and control to accomplish your goal / Dale R. Geiger
Edition First edition
Published New York : Business Expert Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages)
Series Managerial accounting collection
Managerial accounting collection.
Contents 1. Luis struggles with personal finances, talks to father-in-law for advice -- 2. Luis analyzes tax effects of a raise, meets with Emily, defines mission -- 3. Luis calls colonel, gets explanation of basic command and control -- 4. Luis develops his cost intelligence and attack plan, discusses with Emily -- 5. President Nelson holds budget review -- 6. Luis calls staff meeting to find cost reductions -- 7. Chairman Stewart leads the Saturday cost reduction meeting -- 8. Al educates Luis and Marty on how command and control drives mission success -- 9. Luis and Marty work up brief for Chairman Stewart -- 10. Researching activity based costing and performance metrics -- 11. Luis talks with Colonel about intelligence gathering -- 12. Luis reengages Chairman Stewart on cost accounting and metrics issues -- 13. Struggling to specify the right intelligence, writing the mission statement -- 14. Meeting with Chairman Stewart to prep for pilot reviews -- 15. The pilot cost after action review with maintenance and marketing -- 16. Figuring out facilities cost allocation -- 17. Luis revisits personal finance problems over the weekend -- 18. Prebrief to Chairman Stewart before first full cost review including facilities -- 19. The first company-wide cost after action review -- 20. Three months later: the first good ideas meeting -- 21. Epilogue: five years later -- Index
Summary Written as a novel, Cents of Mission follows Luis as he struggles with the problems that many people and organizations face today: the lack of fiscal resources. Watch him as he seeks advice and learns how to attack these problems with practical, military style command and control. See how learning, cost informed decision making, creativity, and continuous improvement become powerful forces for improving cost effectiveness and achieving life and professional goals
Analysis activity based costing
budget management
command and control
continuous improvement
cost after action review
cost allocation
cost benefit analysis
cost management and control
cost variance
mission statement
performance metrics
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2015)
Subject Cost accounting.
Cost control -- Accounting
cost accounting.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Cost accounting
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631571398
1631571397