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Informationen zum Autor STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and an auditor at Deloitte & Touche. He received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine. He has been the two-time president of the Colorado Mountain Club, is an avid alpine skier and mountain biker, and is a certified master diver. Mr. Bragg resides in Centennial, Colorado. He is also the author of Accounting Best Practices and Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual , both published by Wiley. Klappentext Discover the tools for knowing the costs your company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and servicesNew from Steve Bragg, this book provides the tools for determining which costs a company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services. It explains 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.* Delves into process analysis, to determine where excess resources are being used in a business process* Describes the total cost of ownership, showing how a single purchasing decision actually snowballs into a variety of ancillary costs* Shows how to create and use a spend management system to reduce procurement costs* Shows how just-in-time systems can be used to eliminate inventory costsCost Reduction Analysis: Tools and Strategies provides examples to show how much cost can potentially be eliminated to avoid drastic action later that can imperil your corporation's direction and future. Zusammenfassung Discover the tools for knowing the costs your company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and servicesNew from Steve Bragg, this book provides the tools for determining which costs a company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services. It explains 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.* Delves into process analysis, to determine where excess resources are being used in a business process* Describes the total cost of ownership, showing how a single purchasing decision actually snowballs into a variety of ancillary costs* Shows how to create and use a spend management system to reduce procurement costs* Shows how just-in-time systems can be used to eliminate inventory costsCost Reduction Analysis: Tools and Strategies provides examples to show how much cost can potentially be eliminated to avoid drastic action later that can imperil your corporation's direction and future. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Author xi Preface xiii Part I Primary Areas of Cost Reduction 1 Chapter 1 The Cost Reduction Process 3 Introduction 3 Need for Cost Reduction 4 Advantages of Cost Reduction 7 Disadvantages of Cost Reduction 8 Cost Reduction Politics 8 Cost Reduction Priorities 9 Cost Reduction Tools 11 Process Analysis 21 Process Analysis Tools 24 Key Cost Reduction Questions 28 Cost Reduction Reports 29 Metrics 34 Summary 34 Chapter 2 Selling and Marketing Cost Reduction 37 Introduction 37 Customer Mix Analysis 37 Customer Class Analysis 39 Sales Region Analysis 39 Dropped Customer Analysis 42 Price Setting with Throughput Analysis 44 Sales Productivity Analysis 46 Sales Effectiveness Analysis 48 Salesperson Analysis 49 Finding Throughput Problems in Sales 51 Sales Process Flow 53 Sales Deduction Systems 55 Collections by the Sales Staff 56
