Throughput Accounting in Strategic Cost Management: An Application

Mustafa Kirli
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Mustafa Kirli: Manisa Celal Bayar University, Ahmetli Vocational School, Manisa, Turkey

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2016, issue 2, 78-87

Abstract: Strategic cost management considers costs as a factor that has to be managed for gaining competitive advantage. Theory of Constraints is an alternative approach which aims to eliminate the inadequacies of the traditional cost and management accounting techniques in the face of advanced production systems. Theory of Constraints argues that constraints in the production process negatively affect the performance and the profitability of company; because of this constraints have to be managed efficiently. Theory of Constraints bases on management of constraints in the continuous improvement process. Identifying the constraints and managing them efficiently increase the profitability of companies significantly. In this sense, with a hypothetic example in the last section of the study, the effect of efficiently management of a capacity constraint, a kind of constraint, to the profitability of company examined comparatively by Theory of Constraints and traditional contribution margin approaches.

Keywords: Strategic Cost Management; Theory of Constraints; Throughput Accounting; Throughput; Constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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