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Activity based management [[electronic resource] ] : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman
| Activity based management [[electronic resource] ] : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman |
| Autore | Plowman Brian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Activity-based costing
Management |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-566-08949-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449660803321 |
Plowman Brian
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| Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Activity based management [[electronic resource] ] : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman
| Activity based management [[electronic resource] ] : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman |
| Autore | Plowman Brian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Activity-based costing
Management |
| ISBN |
1-351-80852-4
0-566-08949-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777340003321 |
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Plowman Brian
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| Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Activity based management : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman
| Activity based management : improving processes and profitability / / Brian Plowman |
| Autore | Plowman Brian |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Activity-based costing
Management |
| ISBN |
1-351-80852-4
0-566-08949-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Customers -- The twenty-first century is electronic -- The missing dimension -- Can all customers be kings? -- Activity Based Management -- Key points -- Part I The Context -- 2 Historical perspective -- The first serious questions -- New costing approaches gather pace -- Key points -- 3 What is ABM? -- Costing and profitability -- Process improvement -- Key points -- 4 Frameworks for measurement and improvement -- The Balanced Scorecard -- The Business Excellence Model -- Shareholder Value Added -- Positioning and capability -- Key points -- 5 The ABM framework -- Traditional resource accounting -- ABM versus traditional treatments of costs -- Key points -- Part II ABM in Practice -- 6 The ABM flow of costs -- Resources -- Functions -- Activities and drivers -- Products, channels and customers -- Infrastructure and sustaining costs -- Product and customer profitability -- Attribute analysis -- Processes and process improvement -- Embedding the model -- Key points -- 7 The basic principles of building models -- The flow of costs in the model -- The general ledger -- Categories of costs and activities -- Assigning costs from the general ledger -- Understanding cost drivers -- Cost driver variability -- Activity data -- Assigning costs from the ledger to activities -- Reassigning internal service department costs to other departments -- Reassigning IT department costs to other departments -- Product and customer profitability -- Using unit costs for analysis -- Key points -- 8 Undertaking an ABM project -- Objectives of the project -- Key steps -- Areas of potential difficulty -- Software -- Team resources -- Use of consultants -- Embedding and refreshing -- Using ABM outputs for performance improvement.
Using ABM for commercial decision support -- Key points -- 9 Integrating improvement approaches -- ABM and Business Process Re-engineering -- ABM and Value Based Management -- ABM and Customer Relationship Management -- Key points -- Part III Case Studies -- 10 How ABM made a difference: lessons from case studies -- A manufacturing company: distortions caused by costing using Overhead Recovery Rates -- A manufacturing company: understanding overheads makes a real difference to product costs -- A printing company: tunnelling deeper uncovers the real drivers of cost -- A finance company: breaking out one-off costs from recurring costs -- A trading company: the costs of different customer relationships vary -- A fast-moving consumer goods company: activity data can highlight process failures -- A retail chain company: a flawed internal charging mechanism can have severe consequences -- A merchant bank: proper costing and charging for central support or shared services removes the angst in the relationship with business divisions -- A Head Office function: activity and value-for-money analysis create enhanced effectiveness -- An IT services division: achieving a proper basis for costing and charging IT services -- A utility company: selling off the IT services function meant understanding the dynamics of the new business -- A courier company: the devil is in the detail, which is only known by the people doing the work -- A manufacturing and technical services company: a simple pricing mechanism masks complex and costly customer relationships -- A wholesale and distribution company: treating major costs as fixed masked the real differences in customer profitability -- A manufacturing company: an increasing number and changing mix of distributors eroded profitability. A bakery company: when margins are small, detailed analysis is required to unravel the complexities of many different products going to many different customers -- A university: the real costs of 'products' and 'customers' remained invisible in the conventional management information system -- An airline company: seeing costs from different business perspectives helps optimize corporate performance -- A power generation equipment manufacturing company: a focus on profitability rather than volume highlighted process failures and better market opportunities -- A merchanting company: customer profitability analysis exposed poor performance measures that were eroding profits -- A global manufacturer and supplier of orthopaedic implants and surgical instrumentation: when the profitable segments are found, enhancing service levels helps to retain customers -- A specialist distribution company: uncovering the complexity of having many suppliers of many products going to many customers -- An advertising directory company: better information to support product costing, customer profitability, benchmarking and process improvement -- A high street retailing company: subtle changes can make dramatic improvements -- An electricity supply company: uncovering the true impact on profitability of the behaviour of millions of customers -- Part IV Conclusions -- 11 Pulling it all together -- ABM comes of age -- ABM brings a different perspective -- Making ABM happen -- ABM does make a difference -- Appendix: Glossary of terms -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806291903321 |
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Plowman Brian
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| Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, USA, : Gower, c2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cost-benefit analysis : theory and application / / Tevfik F. Nas
| Cost-benefit analysis : theory and application / / Tevfik F. Nas |
| Autore | Nas Tevfik F. |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cost effectiveness
Welfare economics Finance, Public Economic development projects - Cost effectiveness |
| ISBN | 1-4985-2251-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Efficiency norm: pareto optimality -- Economic efficiency and the market mechanism -- Economic efficiency and public goods -- Economic efficiency in the presence of externalities -- Collective decision making -- Principles of cost-benefit analysis -- Allocational effects of public projects -- Measuring costs and benefits -- Nonmarket valuation -- Investment criteria and project selection -- The choice of discount rate -- Income distribution as an evaluation criterion -- Applications of cost-benefit analysis -- Evaluation issues in environmental studies -- Evaluation studies: health care -- CBA in a developing country context. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798516803321 |
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Nas Tevfik F.
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cost-benefit analysis : theory and application / / Tevfik F. Nas
| Cost-benefit analysis : theory and application / / Tevfik F. Nas |
| Autore | Nas Tevfik F. |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cost effectiveness
Welfare economics Finance, Public Economic development projects - Cost effectiveness |
| ISBN | 1-4985-2251-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Efficiency norm: pareto optimality -- Economic efficiency and the market mechanism -- Economic efficiency and public goods -- Economic efficiency in the presence of externalities -- Collective decision making -- Principles of cost-benefit analysis -- Allocational effects of public projects -- Measuring costs and benefits -- Nonmarket valuation -- Investment criteria and project selection -- The choice of discount rate -- Income distribution as an evaluation criterion -- Applications of cost-benefit analysis -- Evaluation issues in environmental studies -- Evaluation studies: health care -- CBA in a developing country context. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828457603321 |
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Nas Tevfik F.
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
| Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu |
| Autore | Gershkov Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Collana | Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Revenue management
Pricing Assignment problems (Programming) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-32774-0
0-262-32773-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Series List; Contents; About the Arne Ryde Foundation; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Sequential Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects; 3 Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects; 4 The Stochastic and Dynamic Knapsack Model; 5 Learning and Dynamic Efficiency; 6 Long-lived Agents; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459756103321 |
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Gershkov Alex
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
| Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu |
| Autore | Gershkov Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Collana | Arne Ryde memorial lectures series |
| Soggetto topico |
Revenue management
Pricing Assignment problems (Programming) |
| Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Microeconomics |
| ISBN |
0-262-32774-0
0-262-32773-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Series List; Contents; About the Arne Ryde Foundation; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Sequential Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects; 3 Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects; 4 The Stochastic and Dynamic Knapsack Model; 5 Learning and Dynamic Efficiency; 6 Long-lived Agents; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787225103321 |
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Gershkov Alex
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| Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
| Dynamic allocation and pricing : a mechanism design approach / / Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu |
| Autore | Gershkov Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.15/54 |
| Collana | Arne Ryde memorial lectures series |
| Soggetto topico |
Revenue management
Pricing Assignment problems (Programming) |
| Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Microeconomics |
| ISBN |
0-262-32774-0
0-262-32773-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Series List; Contents; About the Arne Ryde Foundation; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Sequential Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects; 3 Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects; 4 The Stochastic and Dynamic Knapsack Model; 5 Learning and Dynamic Efficiency; 6 Long-lived Agents; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819971403321 |
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Gershkov Alex
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| Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Performance dashboards and analysis for value creation [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Alexander
| Performance dashboards and analysis for value creation [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Alexander |
| Autore | Alexander Jack <1956-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina |
658.15/54
658.1554 |
| Collana | Wiley finance series |
| Soggetto topico |
Corporations - Valuation
Corporate profits Performance standards Organizational effectiveness - Evaluation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-118-04472-X
1-119-19732-5 1-280-72167-7 9786610721672 0-470-08883-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The management challenge : integrating performance, finance, and value -- Fundamentals of finance -- Key valuation concepts -- The business model and financial projections -- Drivers of shareholder value and the value performance framework -- Revenue growth and pricing strength -- Operating effectiveness -- Capital effectiveness : working capital -- Capital effectiveness : long-term assets -- Cost of capital and the intangibles -- Building a performance management framework -- The economics of mergers and acquisitions -- Benchmark takeaways and summary. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143686303321 |
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Alexander Jack <1956->
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| Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Performance dashboards and analysis for value creation [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Alexander
| Performance dashboards and analysis for value creation [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Alexander |
| Autore | Alexander Jack <1956-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina |
658.15/54
658.1554 |
| Collana | Wiley finance series |
| Soggetto topico |
Corporations - Valuation
Corporate profits Performance standards Organizational effectiveness - Evaluation |
| ISBN |
1-118-04472-X
1-119-19732-5 1-280-72167-7 9786610721672 0-470-08883-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The management challenge : integrating performance, finance, and value -- Fundamentals of finance -- Key valuation concepts -- The business model and financial projections -- Drivers of shareholder value and the value performance framework -- Revenue growth and pricing strength -- Operating effectiveness -- Capital effectiveness : working capital -- Capital effectiveness : long-term assets -- Cost of capital and the intangibles -- Building a performance management framework -- The economics of mergers and acquisitions -- Benchmark takeaways and summary. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830101103321 |
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Alexander Jack <1956->
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| Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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