Target Costing (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))

Compiling practical recommendations gleaned from more than 20 years of professional experience, Target Costing: Market Driven Product Design provides numerous examples from field authorities that illustrate valuable concepts and approaches employed in the application of target costing to large-scale manufacturing operations. The authors discuss setting the target product level and subsystem level, maintaining competitive costs, applying the principles of target costing in practice, and quantifying customers' needs.