Cost Management and Control Will Enhance Your Ability to
ACCOMPLISH YOUR MISSION 
Whether Your Mission is:
  Governmental
  Business or
  Personal

The output of the measurement process must be credible, useful, and affordable.

Cents of Mission was written as a novel to make it as easy as possible to explain cost management and control.

Cost accounting has both external reporting and managerial uses. Here is a framework that categorizes managerial costing use.

Managerial Costing was an area of interest at the the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board and I was called to provide testimony.

Many people have a very simplistic, if not naïve, view of what cost means. This is probably because many people only think of their cost...

Decisions are made constantly at all levels of an organization. External reporting that provides a highly aggregated view infrequently...

Cost management and combat have a number of similarities. First both represent a struggle to achieve a mission.

Another common misconception is that budget management is the same things as cost management.

Many people seem to think the budget drives the mission. This is patently untrue. It is the spending the drives the mission.

The four requirements for effective cost management are manager, support staff, coherent process and managerial cost information. Each...

A constructive After Action Review of cost and performance seeks to understand the actual results and drive action that leads to improvement

Would you like to spend more on needed things? We are not talking about getting a pile of cash and setting it afire or wasting it.