Three routes for target costing

Managerial Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-45

  Bayou, Mohamed E ^a   Reinstein, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost improvement; Cost management; Cost reduction; Target costing

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744390902     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074359810765318     Document Type: Article

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