Competitive Cost-Based Pricing Systems for Modern Manufacturing

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By Robert J. Campbell

ISBN: 0-89930-653-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-89930-653-7

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272 pages, Chart, Firgure, Table

Quorum Books

Publication: 10/30/1992

List Price: $117.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: In an era of fierce international competition, manufacturing firms must have a thorough understanding of their cost structure and how that structure relates to pricing and product mix decisions. Two competing conceptual approaches to designing product cost systems that support decision making are Activity-based Costing and the Theory of Constraints. Rather than argue in favor of one to the exclusion of the other, Robert J. Campbell presents a new approach to cost system design that combines the strengths of each school of thought, thereby overcoming the significant limitations of each. The need to price the product mix in order to exploit constrained resources is advocated by the Theory of Constraints, while the need to examine resource consumption from activities, both value adding and non-value adding, to support the principles of JIT is advocated by Activity-based Costing. After examining the nature of a firm's cost structure as it relates to the activities performed by various functional areas, Campbell discusses the development of activity-based cost systems through an extensive example. Activity-based costing can lead to building excessively complex accounting systems that lack focus and provide confusion about short-run versus long-run changes in the cost structure. After a chapter examining short-run cost behavior and cost relationships, an in-depth discussion of the Theory of Constraints and how it is contrasted to, and complemented by, activity-based costing follows. In these middle chapters the strengths of each methodology are identified and combined into a unified approach to product cost systems. Later chapters provide discussion on pricing strategies, customer profitability analysis, and providing cost measures that recognize either loss of learning or volume-related efficiencies in machine-paced organizations. This book is an important resource for executives or consultants seeking to implement new cost management systems that lead to improved decision making, as well as for educators seeking to reconcile and understand Activity-based Costing and the Theory of Constraints.

Table of Contents:

The Importance of Competitive Pricing
Making the Firm's Cost Structure Competitive
Activity-based Costing
Marginal Costing
The Theory of Constraints and Product Costing
Integrating the Theory of Constraints and Activity Costing
Developing Strategic Cost Standards in a Machine-paced Environment
Learning Curves: The Reduction of Unit Labor Cost
Cost-based Pricing in the Automotive Glass industry

LC Card Number: 91-47661

LCC Class: HF5416

Dewey Class: 658.8


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