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Zusatztext While the fashion industry continues to evolve, aspiring scholars are left with many inquiries about how to financially build and sustain their dreams. ? Costing ? not only provides answers to these questions, but also gives readers the unique opportunity to explore the different options available to help them build paths to success. Evans, Jeffrey, and Craig go above and beyond the expectations for a typical informative textbook and instead offer an expertly-organized manual for financial success in fashion. Informationen zum Autor Nathalie Evans is Senior Lecturer, Department of Clothing Design and Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University. Michael Jeffrey is a retired academic formerly of Manchester Metropolitan University. Susan Craig is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Business at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.A practical, easy-to-use introduction to costing for the fashion industry for general fashion students who lack any accounting experience. Zusammenfassung Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable.Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the changing nature of cost and the importance of global awareness and new markets, as well as expanded coverage of internationalization strategies for SMEs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Small and Medium-Sized (SMEs) Clothing Businesses2. Risk Management3. Global Awareness and New Markets4. Product Cost When Sourcing 5. The Nature of Clothing Manufacture and the Need for Costing 6. The Elements of Cost7. Costing Over Periods of Time8. Product Cost—Job Costing 9. Marginal Costing 10. Break-Even Analysis 11. Budgeting and Standard Costing 12. The Changing Nature of Cost13. Activity-Based Costing 14. Capital Investment Decisions Further resources...
