Activity Based Costing/Activity Based Management

• An ABC Manager’s Primer: Straight Talk on Activity-Based Costing by Gary Cokins, 1993
• Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations by John A Miller, 1995
• Activity-Based Costing: Making It Work for Small and Mid-Sized Companies by D. T. Hicks, 2002
• The Complete Guide to Activity-Based Costing by Michael óGuin, 1991
• Activity-based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide by Gary Cokins, 2001
• Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits by Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson, 2007
• Common Cents: How to Succeed with Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management by Peter B. B. Turney, 2005

Balanced Scorecard

• The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 1996
• Balanced Scorecards and Operational Dashboards with Microsoft Excel by Ron Person, 2008
• Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results by Paul R. Niven, 2006
• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 2000
• Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies by Paul R. Niven, 2008
• Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 2004
• Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 2006

Budgeting

• Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap by Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser, 2003
• An ABB manager’s primer: Straight talk on activity-based budgeting and planning by Alan Stratton, Tony C. Adkins and William McKinney, 2008
• Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential by Bjarte Bogsnes
• Budgeting Basics and Beyond by Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel, and Allison I. Shim

Process Improvement

• Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness by H. James Harrington, 1991
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, 2004
• Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints: A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement by H. William Dettmer, 1997
• Process Improvement & Performance Management Made Simple: The FastTrack approach to getting results quickly by Andrew Muras, 2009

Capacity

• Capacity Measurement and Improvement: A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and Optimizing Capacity Productivity by Thomas P. Klammer, 1996
• Essentials of Capacity Management (Essentials Series) by Reginald Tomas Yu-Lee, 2002

Business Strategy/Economics

• Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter, 1998
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter, 1998
• A new approach to industrial economics. by James F. Lincoln, 1961
• The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education – 2nd Edition by W. Edwards Deming, 2000
• Business Fundamentals As Taught At the Harvard Business School: Understanding Costs by William J. Bruns, Robin Cooper, Robert S, Kaplan, Donella M. Rapier, Arthur Schleifer, 1999
• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, 2006

Cost Management

• Controller’s Guide to Costing by Steven M. Bragg, 2005
• Cost Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide by Steven M. Bragg, 2001
• Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance by Robin Cooper and Robert Kaplan, 1997
• Dynamics of Profit-Focused Accounting: Attaining Sustained Value and Bottom-Line Improvement by C. Lynn Northrup, 2004
• Explicit Cost Dynamics: An Alternative to Activity-Based Costing by Reginald Tomas Yu-Lee, 2001
• Internal Accounting: Advanced Presentation of the Chart of Accounts for Managerial Cost Accounting by Emanuel F. Schwarz, 2001
• Management Accounting Best Practices: A Guide for the Professional Accountant by Steven M. Bragg, 2007
• Managing Cash Flow: An Operational Focus by Rob Reider, 2002
• Maximizing Profit: How to Measure the Financial Impact of Manufacturing Decisions by Walt Thrun, 2002
• Poor-quality Cost (Quality and Reliability) by H. J. Harrington, 1987
• Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business by Adrian J. Slywotzky, David J. Morrison, Ted Moser, and Kevin A. Mundt, 1999
• Strategic Cost Management: The New Tool for Competitive Advantage by John K. Shank and Vijay Govindarajan, 2008
• Target Costing and Value Engineering (Strategies in Confrontational Cost Management) by Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder, 1997
• Throughput Accounting by Thomas Corbett, 1998
• Throughput Accounting: A Guide to Constraint Management by Steven M. Bragg, 2007
• Value Imperative: Managing for Superior Shareholder Returns by James M. McTaggart, 1994
• Waging War on Complexity Costs: Reshape Your Cost Structure, Free Up Cash Flows and Boost Productivity by Attacking Process, Product and Organizational Complexity by Stephen A. Wilson and Andrei Perumal, 2009

Global Cost Management

• Global Management Accounting: A Guide for Executives of International Corporations by James A. Heely and Roy L. Nersesian, 1993
• Multinational Management Accounting by Ahmed Riahl Belkaoui, 1991

Performance Management

• Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success
  by Dean R. Spitzer, 2007
• Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs by David Parmenter, 2010
• Measurements for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for Manufacturing Companies by Mokshagundam L. Srikanth and Scott A. Robertson, 1995
• Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap) (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Gary Cokins, 2004
• Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Gary Cokins, 2009
• Value Optimization for Project and Performance Management by Robert B. Stewart, 2010

Lean Accounting

• Lean and Agile Value Chain Management: A Guide to the Next Level of Improvement by Ehap H. Sabri and Salim N. Shaikh, 2010
• Lean Cost Management: Accounting for Lean by Establishing Flow by James Huntzinger, 2007
• Making the Numbers Count: The Management Accountant as Change Agent (Corporate Leadership) by Brian H. Maskell, 2009
• Management Accounting in the Age of Lean Production: Version 1.1 : Module by Shahid Ansari, et al, 1999
• Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise by Brian H. Maskell and Bruce Baggaley, 2003
• Who’s Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel (Winner of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence) by Jerrold M. Solomon, 2003

Data Analysis

• The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch, 1999
• The Information Mosaic (Harvard Business School Series in Accounting & Control) by Sharon M. McKinnon and William J. Burns, 1992
• I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It: How Accounting Information Undermines Profitability by D. T. Hicks, 2008

Computer Applications

• Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series) by George Peck, 2008
• Crystal Reports Formulas Explained by Jason Dove, 2009
• Crystal Reports 2008 Official Guide by Neil Fitzgerald MBA, 2008
• Learn Excel 2007 Essential Skills with the Smart Method: Courseware Tutorial for Self-Instruction to Beginner and Intermediate Level by Mike Smart, 2008
• Learn Excel 2007 Expert Skills with The Smart Method: Courseware Tutorial teaching Advanced Techniques by Mike Smart, 2008
• Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald, 2010
• SQL For Dummies by Allen G. Taylor, 2010
• SQL Queries for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (2nd Edition) by John L. Viescas and Michael J. Hernandez, 2007
• Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg — Other) by Wayne L. Winston, 2007
• Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel by Gordon S. Linoff, 2007
• Excel 2007 Advanced Report Development by Timothy Sapawa, 2007
• Excel Dashboards and Reports (Mr. Spreadsheet’s Bookshelf) by Michael Alexander, 2010

Presentation Skills

• Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Business Skills) (English and English Edition) by Cliff Atkinson, 2011
• Information Anxiety 2 (Hayden/Que) by Richard S. Wurman, 2000
• Information Design by Robert Jacobson and Richard S. Wurman, 2000
• Presentation Skills For Managers by Jennifer Rotondo and Mike Rotondo, Jr, 2001
• Successful Presentation Skills: Build Confidence; Understand Body Language; Use Visual Aids Effectively (Creating Success) by Andrew Bradbury, 2010

Team Building

• Harvard Business Review on Teams That Succeed (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Jon R. Katzenbach, David A. Garvin and Etienne C. Wenger, 2004
• Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance by Howard M. Guttman, 2008
• Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances by J. Richard Hackman, 2002
• Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance by William G. Dyer, W. G. Dyer, Jeffrey H. Dyer and Edgar H. Schein, 2007

Inventory Valuation

• Production and Inventory Management by Donald Fogarty, John H. Blackstone and Thomas R. Hoffmann, 1990
• Inventory Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg, 2011
• Inventory Accuracy: People, Processes, & Technology by David J. Piasecki, 2003
• Essentials of Inventory Management by Max Muller, 2011
• Inventory Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide (Wiley Best Practices) by Steven M. Bragg, 2005

Life Cycle Costing

• Life Cycle Costing: Techniques, Models and Applications by B. S. Dhillon, 1989
• Life-Cycle Costing: Using Activity-Based Costing and Monte Carlo Methods to Manage Future Costs and Risks by Jan Emblemsvag, 2003

Cost Management for Small Business

• Modern Cost Management and Analysis (Barron’s Business Library) by Jae K. Shin Ph.D and Joel G. Siegel Ph.D., 2009

Standard Cost

• Standard costs for manufacturing, (McGraw-Hill accounting series) by Stanley B. Henrici, 1947
• Updating Standard Cost Systems by Carole B. Cheatham and Leon R. Cheatham, 1993
• Standard Costing by Colin Drury, 1992