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Handbook of Cost Management (2nd Ed.)
Authors: Weil Roman L., Maher Michael W.
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editors; glossary; concepts; cost; managerial; gordon; shillinglaw; costs; purposes; different; magic; joel; accounting; mathematical; target; product; new; slagmulder; products; kaizen; interorganizational
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About the Editors.
Contributors.
1. Glossary of Cost Management Concepts (Roman L. Weil).
2. Economic Concepts of Cost in Managerial Accounting (Gordon Shillinglaw and Roman L. Weil).
3. Different Costs for Different Purposes (Russell A. Taussig and Roman L. Weil).
4. Accounting Magic (Roman L. Weil).
5. Mathematical Concepts in Cost Accounting (Joel S. Demski).
6. Activity-Based Costing and Management (Michael W. Maher).
7. Target Costing for New Product Development.
8. Kaizen Costing for Existing Products (Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder).
9. Interorganizational Costing (Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder).
10. Costs and Benefits of Quality Improvement (Christopher D. Ittner and David F. Larcker).
11. Logistics and Marketing Costs (James M. Reeve).
12. Estimating Cost Behavior (Michael W. Maher and M. Laurentius Marais).
13. Spoilage, Waste, and Scrap, Including Green Accounting (William N. Lanen).
14. Job, Process, and Operations Costing (Michael W. Maher).
15. Standard Costing Systems (James A. Largay III).
16. Allocations of Cost and Revenue (Roman L. Weil)
17. Cost-Volume-Profit Analyses (Nicholas Dopuch and Michael W. Maher).
18. Forecasting Pro Formal Financial Statements (James M. Wahlen).
19. Operating Budgets and Budgeting-Benefits and Costs (Michael D. Shields).
20. Theory of Constraints (Eric Noreen).
21. Capital Budgeting: Concepts and Methods (Roman L. Weil).
22. Capital Budgeting: Implementation (Roman L. Weil).
23. Compound Interest: Concepts and Applications (Roman L. Weil).
24. Performance Evaluation in Decentralized Organizations (Michael W. Maher).
25. The Balanced Scorecard and Nonfinancial Performance Measures (Michael W. Maher).
26. Economic Value Added (EVA®) (James J. Wallace).
27. Transfer Pricing (Michael W. Maher).
28. A Managerial Accounting Guide for Nonprofit Managers (Leslie G. Eldenburg and Naomi Soderstrom).
29. Introduction to Costs in Litigation (Elizabeth A. Evans).
30. The Historical Development of Management Accounting (Richard Vangermeersch and Henry R. Schwarzbach).
31. Corporate Scandals: The Accounting Underpinnings (Kathleen Fitzgerald and Roman L. Weil).
Appendix: Compound Interest, Present Value, and Annuity Tables.
Index.
He received his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University in 1962. He received his MS in Industrial Administration in 1965 and PhD in Economics in 1966, both from Carnegie-Mellon University. He joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1965, where he has held positions in Mathematical Economics, Management and Information Sciences, Accounting, and in the Law School. He directs the University's Directors' College, which trains corporate board members to do their jobs better; his won specialty in that training focuses on financial literacy. He co-founded The Directors' Consortium, a joint venture of Chicago, Stanford Law School, and The Wharton School.
He has been a CPA in Illinois since 1973 and a CMA since 1974. He has served on the faculties of the Georgia Institute of Technology, New York University Law School, and Stanford University in its Graduate School of Business, Economics Department, and Law School. At Stanford, he has, since its inception, organized the sessions at Directors' College on Audit Committee duties. He has served on the Board of Academic Advisors of the U.S. Business School in Prague and has taught there. He has served on the accrediting committee of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. He has designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at the accounting firms of Andersen and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as well as for employees at Goldman Sachs, Montgomery Ward, Merck, and William Blair, and for business executives in Great Britain and Singapore.
He has served as editor or associate editor of the Accounting Review, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Management Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Financial