Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new, high-profile techniques that have emerged.

With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting, The Routledge Companion to Cost Management is a timely reference volume covering both practical developments and research in this area. Topics covered include:

• Input cost management
• Product design
• Cost analysis and decision making
• Cost management systems
• Lessons for cost management

With chapters from an international team of contributors, this prestigious companion will prove an indispensible addition to any library with aspirations to keeping up-to-date with the world of accounting.