Controller's Guide to Planning and Controlling Operations

In these tough economic times, all companies want to have better planning and to control their costs. This is the first book in the marketplace that focuses entirely on helping controllers plan and control their operations.

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The Controller's Guide to Planning and Controlling Operations is a comprehensive guide for controllers, CFOs, and budget managers who need to determine:

The soundness of sales forecasts
The best approach for setting product prices
The profitability of customers and market segments
Federal tax remittance rules
The impact of a just-in-time system on inventory levels

Packed with clear and realistic strategies, it helps create a coherent framework of financial plans that apply to the full breadth of ongoing corporate control systems, as well as illustrates:



When to use labor and materials standards to control manufacturing
How to control research and development costs
How to grant appropriate credit levels to customers
How to set up an effective capital budgeting process
How to create a cost-of-capital calculation