Book description
Discover the tools for knowing the costs your company should cut,
without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services
New 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 costs
Cost 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.
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.
