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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Cost management"”.
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Cost management preferences of small restaurant firms
The purpose of this study is to test cost management preferences of small restaurant firms. It attempts to identify whether managers of small restaurant firms behave differently depending on the level of conflict as noted by agency theory and expense preference theory; Data from 87 private small …
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Strategic cost management in a global supply chain
In the face of an economic downturn, cost has become a focal point of supply chain management. Cost management is increasingly being recognized as a vital core competency needed for survival. As companies transition from being vertically integrated to pursuing increasingly outsourced manufacturing …
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The role of environmental accounting in strategic cost management
… to benefit from the accounting data, strategic cost management can be used as a philosophy to provide competitive strategies. This research paper will describe the environmental component of business and describe the role of environmental accounting in strategic cost management. Furthermore, an …
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Value creation through strategic cost management along the supply chain
Bibliography: leaves 277-287.
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Improved supplier selection and cost management for globalized automotive production
… sourcing decisions rely on total landed cost models to determine the cheapest supplier. Total landed cost models calculate the cost to purchase a part plus all logistics costs to transport the part from the supplier to the plant. Although these models can provide a base comparison for …
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Factors influencing effective cost management within South Africa’s retail banking sector
… increase its bottom line, by adequately managing costs. The objective of cost management practices is to ensure that organisations have a true understanding of costs, so that it can continuously make the right decisions with regards to product mix, price and market. This research uses a …
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Impact of environmental conditions on cost management information systems in Egyptian organisations.
… the gap between the theory and the practice of cost management practices, which has led to many of the approaches outlined in accounting literature not been widely used in practice according to many surveys (e.g. Drury et al., 1993; Ezzamel & Willmott, 1992). Scapens (1994), Kaplan (1998) and …
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Accounting information system in the water industry : The case of cost management.
… social democracy and democratic socialism), cost management and processes are central to the water sector. The control or governing ideas within which cost management takes place are the two major concerns of this thesis. These two issues were explored in a case study of the General …
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Environmental Sustainability: A Three Part Essay of The Value Relevance of Cost Management
… and its pillars at the county level from a cost management prospective. The first chapter, examine the relationship between resource allocation and environmental management, where I attempt to empirically demonstrate that reallocating resources toward social goods without increasing total …
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Development of a system model for cost management in low-cost housing projects in Nigeria
Poor project cost performance is one of the vital issues challenging successful construction project delivery particularly in developing countries such as Nigeria. This issue is endemic particularly in Low-cost housing (LcH) projects with adverse effects on delivery, affordability of the target …
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The cost management and control of inter-organisational relationships: a case from the Greek shipping industry
Inter-organisational cost management and control (IOCM and control) is generally defined as a means whereby independent organisations protect their interests and coordinate resources to create value from their inter-organisational relationships (IORs). While research in IOCM and control has been …
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Improving service delivery in the public sector through strategic cost management: the case of a public private partnership in South Africa
… involved the research to discover how strategic cost management may improve service delivery. How could strategic cost management support public private partnership initiatives to improve service delivery by the public sector? Thus a detailed review of literature was done, contributing to the …
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CEO-to-worker Pay Disparity and the Cost of Debt
… which increases credit risk or effective labor cost management that decreases credit risk. Overall results of this study indicate increased CEO-to-worker pay disparity is associated with a lower cost of debt (a higher probability of credit rating upgrades). This association weakens as the growth …
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Applying the Principles of Project Management to a Collegiate Automotive Engineering Design Project
… is responsible for coordinating high-level management and planning activities with the goal of better aligning the team with business and automotive industry practices. Project management responsibilities within the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team are divided into four categories: human …
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Efficient User Incentives in Extreme Edge Sensing: A New Learning-Based Scheme
… systems are noted for their efficient time and cost management, scalability, and the ability to gather real-time data. Efforts to enhance these systems have focused on improving quality of data (QoD) and coverage, as well as on developing incentive schemes to optimize performance. In this …
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Empty container logistics optimization : an implementation framework and methods
Empty container logistics is a huge cost component in an ocean carrier's operations. Managing this cost is important to ensure profitability of the business. This thesis proposes a 3-stage framework to handle empty container logistics with cost management as the objective. The first stage studies …
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The development of 5D BIM framework to facilitate costing in contractor-led projects
… a significant shift and changing the dynamics of cost professional functions. This therefore requires the current fragmented construction industry to urgently review approaches to existing cost estimating and cost planning processes leading to a reliable project budget. This drive, along with 2025 …
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The roles of Internal Audit Function in enhancing Risk Management at ZSSF
… the role of Internal Auditors in enhancing risk management at ZSSF. The analysis reviews the internal audit status on risk management, the impending factors hindering the performance of internal audit function and the safeguard needed to be built to enable internal audit function at ZSSF. The …
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Internal stakeholder management in ZESCO distribution projects.
… This study investigated internal stakeholder management in ZESCO distribution projects. The main objective of the study was to develop a framework for internal stakeholder management. The specific objectives of the study were to: determine factors influencing stakeholder management on ZESCO …
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