[PDF] Target Costing (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) Bradford Clifton, Henry M. B. Bird, Robert E. Albano, Wesley P. Townsend

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.