Activity-Based Cost Management Making It Work: A Manager's Guide to Implementing and Sustaining an Effective ABC System

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Summary: The authorative work on ABC/ABM
Review: I am implementing ABC/ABM in a medium sized multinational company, and this is required reading for my teams. I've read most of the comprehensive ABC/ABM books, and this is by far the best. Gary explains the concepts very clearly and then lays out a detailed and well thought out strategy for implementation. The book is also loaded with illustrations that are literally a blueprint for making ABC/ABM work. If you're doing ABC/ABM this is a must.

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I am very impressed by this book. It is clearly written, jargon is explained, and graphics are excellent. Exmples of excellent explanations include attribute mapping using quadrants, process mapping, cost drivers, and cost decomposition. This is a very large improvement on Gary's first book, and well-worth the price.

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Summary: Easy to read AND understand; logical; flowing.
Review: I just finished your book "Activities Based Costing: Making It Work". Great job! Easy to read AND understand; logical; flowing. Excellent graphic and pictorial support. This is clearly the best work out on ABC. Thank you for your contribution. It should be a must read for every manager-administrator in the health industry -- or any other, for that matter. David Eitel, MD, FACEP York, PA

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Summary: Great synthesis. Definitely the best on the market!
Review: I really enjoyed your book. Full of great stuff

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Summary: This book really is a fine stuff!
Review: I've read several books about ABC/M, and I just can say that Gary Cokins is an excellent writter, Gary explains the concepts very clearly and then lays out a detailed and well thought out strategy for implementation. The graphics are excellent, When you already read this book, you can review it as a presentation just looking the figures and graphics inside.

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Summary: Insightful. Well researched and written.
Review: Insightful, well researched, well written, up-to-date. Makes a particularly useful distinction between ABC system implementation efforts and ABC system installation efforts. Provides some "how to implement" direction, but not enough to qualify as an ABC implementation "cookbook."

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Summary: An ABC pioneer and veteran makes ABC simple ..with pictures.
Review: Readers like to communicate with me via e-mail. My favorite compliment on my book was "best on the market and I've read 'em all." I believe activity-based information systems are 90% behavioral change management; but when it comes to ABCM systems, the time has come to raise their design and construction from an art to the craft that it is. Poor ABCM model design leads to poor results. This book is an easy read, practical, relevant and with 120 graphics. My ABCM experiences gave me the tests first and the lessons afterwards. This book is about lessons learned

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Summary: This book is very useful to person who is planning ABCsystem
Review: This book is very useful to accountant, teacher and student. It helps to understand easily disign of ABC/M.

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Summary: High-end Primer to mid-Intermediate - Recommended
Review: This Book provides an excellent, in-depth overview of ABC/ABM issues; the charts are well thought-out and contain valuable information. This subject area has attracted too many authors, but I wish that I had read this one several years ago (I'm using it to brush up on the subject for an advanced Consulting interview). From my perspective, the book should have been about a 100 pages longer; as that would have provided the necessary space for Cokins to take ABM to its logical conclusion: building a full management reporting system, complete with process benchmarking, personnel and process evaluations mechanisms and to discuss the implications at the senior management and organizational structure levels. Although, this is too much to ask; as it would have rendered the scope of the book too broad for the typical reader.

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Summary: Excellent Coverage of ABC
Review: This is a clearly written and an exceptionally well illustrated explanation of Activity-Based Costing. If you are only going to read one book on ABC, this would be a good one to have.