Japanese Cost Management

Yasuhiro Monden
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Yasuhiro Monden: University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Abstract: This book deals with the systems of cost reduction that originated in Japan. These are mostly new systems that did not exist in western practices before they were utilized in Japan. The book also presents the Japanese ways of carrying out the globally popular cost reduction practices.

Keywords: Strategic Cost Management; New Product Development; Manufacturing Activities; Marketing Strategy; Human Factors; Budgetary Control System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
ISBN: 9781860941856
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Strategic Cost Decisions in the Industry as a Whole , pp 3-26

Kozo Suzuki

Ch 2 Strategic Cost Reduction Through Mutual Relationships Between Companies, Industry Groups and Government , pp 27-47

Kozo Suzuki

Ch 3 Cost Management in R&D: A Side of Japanese Management , pp 51-70

Shunzo Matsuoka

Ch 4 R&D Management and Management Accounting in Japan: Case Studies of Selected Japanese Pharmaceutical Companies , pp 71-96

Takayuki Asada

Ch 5 Target Costing and Kaizen Costing in Japanese Automobile Companies , pp 99-122

Yasuhiro Monden and Kazuki Hamada

Ch 6 Analysis of Variation of Target Costing Practices in the Camera Industry , pp 123-160

Kentaro Koga

Ch 7 A Method for Simultaneously Achieving Cost Reduction and Quality Improvement , pp 161-177

Kazuki Hamada

Ch 8 How QFD and VE should be Combined for Achieving Quality & Cost in Product Development , pp 178-202

Mahfuzul Hoque, Mahmuda Akter, Sachie Yamada and Yasuhiro Monden

Ch 9 Just-In-Time and Its Cost Reduction Framework , pp 205-228

Henry Aigbedo

Ch 10 Kaizen Costing: Its Function and Structure Compared to Standard Costing , pp 229-242

Yasuhiro Monden and John Y. Lee

Ch 11 Cost Management System Integrated into TPM , pp 243-261

Shufuku Hiraoka

Ch 12 How Japanese Companies are Using the “Standard Cost” for Managing Costs , pp 262-285

Gun-Yung Lee

Ch 13 Management Accounting System for Productivity Improvement in Administrative Departments: Monden's Kaizen System , pp 289-315

Yasuhiro Monden

Ch 14 Reform Works in Administrative and Indirect Departments: The Case Study of Z Company , pp 316-334

Shufuku Hiraoka

Ch 15 A Case-Study of Operational Restructuring Using ABM , pp 335-362

Kazuhito Miura, Norika Ikeda and Yoshio Matsushita

Ch 16 The Cost Reduction Approach to the Manufacturing Administrative Departments in a Japanese Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Company , pp 363-382

Yoshiyuki Nagasaka

Ch 17 Strategic Control of Marketing Activities Using the ABC System , pp 385-393

Noboru Ogura

Ch 18 Japanese Management Style in Achieving Cost Reduction Targets , pp 397-415

Gun-Yung Lee

Ch 19 A Management System for the Simultaneous Attainment of Customer Satisfaction and Employee Satisfaction , pp 416-433

Kazuki Hamada

Ch 20 Profit Evaluation Measures for the Division Managers in Japanese Decentralized Company — Focusing on Controllable and Corporate Costs , pp 437-460

Noriko Hoshi and Yasuhiro Monden

Ch 21 Culture and Budget Control Practices: A Study of Manufacturing Companies in U.S.A. and Japan , pp 461-482

Susumu Ueno

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