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Cost Control delivers a comprehensive guide to mastering cost management and securing financial accountability, crucial for any organization aiming for profitability and sustainability. It emphasizes understanding cost behavior, like differentiating fixed from variable costs to make informed decisions, and implementing strategies for cost reduction, such as streamlining operations. The book also highlights establishing strong internal controls to prevent financial waste. The book argues that strategic cost management is essential in today's competitive environment. It progresses from basic cost concepts to advanced methods like activity-based costing. A unique aspect is the focus on fosterin...
More than 80 percent of all projects start with underestimated schedules and costs, and are doomed to exceed projections. This concise book demonstrates how to establish realistic estimates, how to control a projects schedule and costs, and how to develop the projects plan and processes for successful project completion.
Cost Control in Foodservice Operations Control operating costs and move your foodservice business forward The key to a foodservice business surviving and thriving is to properly understand the relationship between revenue, expenses, and profits. Controlling operating costs—that is, controlling expenses without reducing revenue—is a key tool in creating a profitable business. Owners, managers, and staff all play an essential role in controlling operating costs, and it’s critical for every member of a foodservice team to understand how to be successful. Cost Control in Foodservice Operations outlines key mechanisms and tools in a clear, accessible presentation. Emphasizing the importance...
Principles of Food, Beverage, and Labour Cost Controls has been written to provide students with knowledge of the principles necessary to keep restaurant costs under control and to manage a profitable operation. This text has defined the cost control course for generations of students and the new second Canadian edition continues the tradition of presenting comprehensive yet concise information on cost control that is updated to reflect today's technology driven environment. Key terms, key concepts, review questions, and spreadsheet exercises reinforce and support readers' understanding. It also features increased discussion and examples of technology used in food and beverage operations, a running case study, and a separate chapter on menu analysis and engineering.
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Being the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Industrial Engineering, IEEM 2015 aims to provide a high-level international forum for experts, scholars and entrepreneurs at home and abroad to present the recent advances, new techniques and applications face and face, to promote discussion and interaction among academics, researchers and professionals to promote the developments and applications of the related theories and technologies in universities and enterprises, and to establish business or research relations to find global partners for future collaboration in the field of Industrial Engineering. All the goals of the international conference are to fulfill the mission of the series conference which is to review, exchange, summarize and promote the latest achievements in the field of industrial engineering and engineering management over the past year, and to propose prospects and vision for the further development. This volume is the second of the two proceedings volumes from this conference.
Unlike other strategic procurement guides, Lean Supply Chain Management considers an organization's "business condition" as a contributing factor in the development of a strategic procurement strategy. That is, rather than taking a "one-size fits all" approach, the author's more individualized approach illustrates techniques specific to organizations operating in a standard or crisis environment. Highlights include: Methods for developing and tracking strategic procurement initiatives. Planning in the "standard" and "crisis" environments. Coordinating supply chain management and lean manufacturing. Performance measurement tools. Lean Supply Chain Management provides purchasers and supplier development professionals with the tools needed to transform procurement from a mere cost center to a profit generator.