TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geiger,Dale R.
TI  - Cost management and control in government: fighting the cost war through leadership driven management 
T2  - Managerial accounting collection,
SN  - 9781606492185
AV  - JF1351 .C678 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - [New York, N.Y. (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017)
PB  - Business Expert Press
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Cost control
KW  - Government productivity
KW  - Cost management
KW  - Government management
KW  - Anti- Deficiency Act
KW  - ACE (analytic cost expert)
KW  - Cost war
KW  - Budget
KW  - Budget deficit
KW  - Deficit reduction
KW  - Organization based control
KW  - Role based control
KW  - Output based control
KW  - Cost benefit analysis
KW  - Cost managed organizations
KW  - Leadership driven management
KW  - Managerial costing
KW  - Cost accounting
KW  - Fort Huachuca
KW  - Continuous improvement
N1  - 1 (pages 195-198) and index; Foreword: Blending people, process, and tools to win the cost war --; Introduction: Cost management and control in government --; 1. Opportunities for leadership driven management --; Part I. Stage I cost use: making cost informed decisions --; 2. Developing aggressive, knowledgeable management --; 3. ACEs: building a talented, smart support staff of analytic cost experts --; 4. Army Central Command examples of cost benefit analysis --; Part II. Stage II cost use: creating cost managed organizations --; 5. Constructing interactive, learning oriented processes --; 6. Evolving good cost information --; 7. Organization based operational control processes --; 8. Fort Huachuca U.S. Army Garrison: case study --; 9. Refocusing support functions through role based control processes --; 10. NRaD (Now SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific): case study --; 11. Output based management control --; 12. Bureau of Engraving and Printing --; Part III. Stage III cost use: creating cost managed enterprises --; 13. Implementation issues --; 14. Conclusions --; Notes --; Index; 2; b; Also available in printing
N2  - Government organizations spend enormous amounts. They employ a large percentage of the workforce. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for "bright line" discrepancies and clear violations to those rules and regulations. Working in tandem, these processes provide indignant sound bites and the appearance of management that is really mindless compliance to rules
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