Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices: The Best Ways for a Financial Manager to Save Money (Wiley Best Practices)

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Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields.
* Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company
* New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs
* Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs

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The official IOMA source for tips, techniques, strategies, and best practices in corporate cost-cutting This book is an authoritative and comprehensive collection of the best strategies and techniques being used to control costs across virtually every business function. Each chapter focuses on a different department or function and is built around original research, the latest strategies currently being used, and dozens of practical tips and tactics from managers around the country. Case studies and real examples illustrate this expert guide from the only truly definitive source-the Institute of Management and Administration.

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High Quality Book.......2006-08-06

In a highly competitive operating environment in which we live, it is often difficult for a company to raise prices, unless it can differentiate its products and services in such a way that customers are prepared to pay a premium price. Even then it is necessary to produce the best value at optimal costs.

Most companies are price takers and the only area that they have control may be their costs. This is where this book is very handy and it provides managers with effective techniques and tools that they can employ to control and manage costs. The book shows that all departments can adopt best practices to ensure that their costs structures are optimal. Other areas to target for cost control include outsourcing, rightsizing organisations, the use of consultants and elsewhere.

This is an excellent book that is essential reading for all managers who need to learn the techniques, strategies and best practices in reducing costs for organisations. The author reinforces their well presented arguments, proposals and solutions with case studies and real examples that should assist managers in implementing the tips that they would have learnt.

Manager.......2002-03-04

I found this book innovative and helpful. It provides informative examples best practices, case studies and the latest strategies & techniques that companies can use to control costs and maximize profitability. In a tough fiscal year, I will be reading this book over and over again to find more new ways to save money.

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, 2nd Edition

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good conceptual overview
Great resource for novices
....unnecessarily and excruciatingly verbose!
Professional approach with simple expaniations, easy to use
Excellent on both the "art" and "science" of valuation.

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, 2nd Edition
Wilbur M. Yegge
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471150479

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The Groundwork of Company Valuation for First-time Buyers and Sellers

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company has helped thousands of first-time buyers and sellers realize a fair, substantiated value for small businesses. Now in its Second Edition, this book covers common valuation techniques and myths, tips for determining tangible and intangible values, sample balance sheets and income statements, and approaches to valuing start-up technology and dot-com businesses.

This nuts-and-bolts guide addresses publicly traded and privately held firms, including traditional brick-and-mortar companies and the intellectual property industry. With a clear, concise writing style, the author walks readers through common practices for valuing, from collecting data to arriving at a saleable figure for all types of businesses, including professional practice, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, and a variety of retail operations. This new edition features perspectives on nontraditional valuation practices, guidance for using an excess earnings method, and an abundance of case studies from actual companies.

In order to make the most profitable decisions, before putting a business on the market or making an offer to acquire one, every beginning business purchaser and seller should read A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, Second Edition.

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good conceptual overview.......2001-01-01

Good overview of valuation concepts, but if you want to sit down and actually come up with a number, try "Unlocking the Value of Your Business".

Great resource for novices.......2000-05-11

Will Yegge has the unique ability of being able to present a difficult subject in a logical, intelligent, concise and interesting manner.

Even though I have no background whatsoever in accounting, I was able to follow the information in this book and use it as my primary guide in valuing a company that I was interested in purchasing. It is a great resource for novices.

....unnecessarily and excruciatingly verbose!.......1999-11-27

Although his work on valuation techniques is straightforward in later chapters, the 1st several chapters do not do an adequate job of explaining the psychology of business valuation, buying or selling or the 'intangible' of business value. Words such as 'steeds' and 'pestilence' belong in literature, not reference manuals. Are Cliff Notes available to decipher just what these chapters are trying to communicate? I am trying to buy a business;lots of hard work lay ahead. Why must this book start off so unclear?

Professional approach with simple expaniations, easy to use.......1999-07-25

In preparation to sell my business for appx $10MM I sought many references on how to make a professional presentation and and use methodology that would be reasonable and logical to lead to a sale. Wilbur has doen a great job with this and his other book, How To Sell A business. I recommend that anyone read there two before putting a package together. I have had many favorable comments from both principals and brokers concerning the structure of the presentation I was able do make using Wilbur's help.

Excellent on both the "art" and "science" of valuation........1998-12-10

Just what I needed as a small business owner who needed a basic understanding of both the art and the science of valuing my company. Heavier read than it looks, since I didn't needed to know everything about non-related businesses. I did need to know how what factors must be considered and how complex some deals could be. Yegge speaks from experience and that is obvious, helpful and most comforting.

Handbook of Electronics Industry Cost Estimating Data

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Handbook of Electronics Industry Cost Estimating Data
Theodore Taylor
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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ASIN: 0471822647

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A unique collection of time standards, manufacturing methods, and overall `rules of thumb' used for cost-estimating electronic equipment and systems. As the only book available on the subject, it covers all operations from machining and sheet metal fabrication through wiring, circuit board assembly, electrical testing, and packaging. In addition, it describes the fields of production schedule determination, personnel facility planning ratios, and concept estimating.

Cost Control: A Strategic Guide (CIMA Professional Handbook)

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Cost Control: A Strategic Guide (CIMA Professional Handbook)
David Doyle
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ASIN: 1859715176

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The current economic climate has meant that cost control is firmly back on the corporate agenda. This edition maintains that all too often, costs are cut in a way that is actually detrimental to the company in the short and long-term. The author highlights and examines the many pitfalls managers face, and suggests a more flexible model which will offer stability and sustainability in the modern global marketplace.

Getting maximum results out of organisational resources while minimising costs will continue to rank as one of the main strategic issues facing managers for many generations to come.

Key points and a checklist are included at the end of every chapter
Highlights and examines the many pitfalls managers face in the current economic climate
The author is a cost management and marketing expert and lectures in management control at the HEC School of Management

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Handbook of Cost Management
Roman L. Weil , and Michael W. Maher
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Handbook of Cost Management, Second Edition covers all of the essential topics in cost management and accounting. It includes conventional topics, such as job costing and cost allocation, as well as such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.

The Common-Sense Mortgage : How to Cut the Cost of Home Ownership by $50,000 or More

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Very good book

The Common-Sense Mortgage : How to Cut the Cost of Home Ownership by $50,000 or More
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Millions of homes are financed each year and millions more are refinanced, a process that routinely leaves consumers dazed, weary, and paying more than they should.

For more than a decade The Common-Sense Mortgage has been a consumer staple, used by borrowers nationwide to find better home loan terms and lower costs. Written in plain language, clearly organized, and filled with tables and examples, The Common-Sense Mortgage shows how the lending system works, reviews dozens of individual programs, and raises the questions consumers should ask.

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Very good book.......2005-03-17

This book is a good, basic, organized introduction to the world of mortgage. This is a serious book. I enjoyed reading it and learned a lot from it.
I guess that even the title "save 50,000.00" can be considered correct. The mortgage is more expensive than your home. If you do not know what you are doing, you will pay a hefty price.

J.K. Lasser Pro New Strategies for College Funding: An Advisor's Guide

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J.K. Lasser Pro New Strategies for College Funding: An Advisor's Guide
Raymond D. Loewe
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A PROFESSIONAL GUIDE TO PLANNING FOR COLLEGE FUNDING

A properly designed college savings plan is key to providing a college education as well as the best way to avoid any surprises. Yet many parents fail to realize how much time, money, and commitment are needed to accomplish this goal. As an advisor, you must guide your clients through this process with poise and confidence, and J.K. Lasser Pro New Strategies for College Funding: An Advisor's Guide with its companion CD-ROM will help you do just that.

Filled with expert advice, real-world case studies, and invaluable tools, techniques, worksheets, and checklists, this comprehensive guide will allow you to connect with your clients and plan for their children's college education in the best way possible.

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Quantify the college problem for your clients and communicate effectively and motivationally to each of them by using tools such as The College Savings Calculator™, The Financial Aid Test™, and The College Funding Integrator™, as well as spreadsheets that allow you to calculate exactly what clients need to save on a monthly basis
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