Cleveland—service-at-cost and efficient management

Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks Cost - Efficient Methods

This edited volume of articles focuses on the value of risk assessment for policy solutions to environmental problems. It succeeds, through a series of case studies, in illustrating various available methodologies and the implications of the subsequent results. Finally, it serves to update social scientists as to the current state of environmental risk assessment, and thereby provides a useful ...

Multi-objective optimization approach for cost management during product design at the conceptual phase

The effective cost management during the conceptual design phase of a product is essential to develop a product with minimum cost and desired quality. The integration of the methodologies of quality function deployment (QFD), value engineering (VE) and target costing (TC) could be applied to the continuous improvement of any product during product development. To optimize customer satisfaction ...

Incentives for Efficient Inventory Management: The Role of Historical Cost

T paper examines inventory management from an incentive perspective. We show that when a manager has private information about future attainable revenues, the residual income performance measure based on historical cost can achieve optimal (second-best) incentives with regard to managerial effort as well as production and sales decisions. The LIFO (last-in–first-out) inventory flow rule is show...

Target Cost Management And Its Application In Iran's Industry

Development and Psychometric “Evaluationof Hospital Cost Management Scale”

Introduction: Today, due to the increasing demand for health services and the increase in health care costs, it is necessary to pay attention to cost management in hospitals. The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and psychometric "Hospital Cost Management Scale". Methods: The present research method is a combined (qualitative-quantitative) method. In the qualitative section...