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Target costing and value engineering /

Cooper, Robin, 1951-

Target costing and value engineering / Robin Cooper and Regine Slag. - New Jersey : Productivity Press, 1997. - xl, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Strategies in confrontational cost management series .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index.

Part One: Confrontational cost management -- How firms compete using the confrontation strategy -- The role of cost management in confrontation strategy -- The research project -- Part Two: Target costing and value engineering -- An overview of target costing and value engineering -- Market-driven costing -- Product-level target costing -- Value engineering -- Component-level target costing -- Factors that influence the target costing process -- Target costing and value engineering in action -- Lessons for adopters -- Part Three: The cases -- Nissan Motor Company, Ltd -- Toyota motor corporation -- Komatsu, Ltd. -- Olympus optical company, Ltd.: Cost management for short life-cycle products -- Sony corporation: The Walkman line -- Topcon corporation -- Isuzu Motors, Ltd.

1563271729


Value analysis (Cost control)
Target costing.

658.575

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