Die Wettbewerbssituation hat sich für Banken in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich verschärft. Auf höhere Kundenerwartungen hinsichtlich Preis und Qualität, sowie auf steigende Betriebskosten müssen Banken mit einer klaren Kundenorientierung und einem effizienten Kostenmanagement reagieren. Das in der Arbeit dargestellte Konzept des Target Cost and Quality Management (TCQM) beruht auf den Grundüberlegungen des Target Costing, wird jedoch zu einem integrierten Instrument der Planung und Steuerung der Kosten und der Qualität von Bankleistungen ausgebaut bzw. adaptiert. In der Arbeit werden zunächst vor dem Hintergrund verschiedener Auffassungen in der Literatur bezüglich des Charakters und der Systematisierung von Bankleistungen das Verständnis der Bankleistung thematisiert. Im Anschluß daran werden die für das TCQM grundlegenden Konzepte des Target Costing und des Total Quality Management/Quality Banking erläutert und daraus ein grobes Phasenmodell des TCQM abgeleitet. Dieses Phasenmodell wird in einen strategischen Rahmen eingebettet. Nachfolgend wird, aufbauend auf einer allgemeinen Darstellung des Prozesses der marktorientierten Bankleistungs-/Prozeßgestaltung, die Festlegung von Preis-, Qualitäts- und Kostenzielen detailliert erläutert. Grundlage für eine marktgerechte Zieldefinition ist die Identifikation und Bewertung von Kundenanforderungen. Für den konkreten Einsatz der in der Arbeit dargestellten Instrumente und Methoden ist insbesondere die Differenzierung der Kundenanforderungen nach Basis-, Leistungs- und Begeisterungsanforderungen sowie nach merkmals- bzw. ereignisorientierten Anforderungen relevant. Mit Hilfe verschiedener, aufeinander abgestimmter Tabellen können dann konkrete Ziele abgeleitet werden. Den Ausführungen zur Zielfestlegung schließt sich eine Darstellung von Methoden zur Unterstützung der Zielerreichung an. Ein Schwerpunkt wird auf das bankspezifische Prozeßkostenmanagement aufgrund seiner erfolgskritischen Bedeutung für das TCQM gelegt.

Strategic cost management is in its infancy. Researches and studies are still in an early exploratory stage and have not yet developed a consistent theory for strategic cost management. The thesis presents a comprehensive framework for strategic cost management. In particular the study attempts to contribute to filling the gap in the literature of strategic cost management. The suggested framework covers the concept, the objectives, the principles, the analysis fields & activities, the objects, the instruments and the key supports factors of strategic cost management to meet different challenges that the companies encounter from time to time and at different stages of development.

Η διατριβή αναφέρεται στην ανάπτυξη μίας Μεθοδολογίας Ενοποίησης Εργαλείων Διοίκησης (Μ.Ε.Δ.Δ.) για την επίλυση προβλημάτων που παρουσιάζονται στον τομέα της υγείας, τα οποία αναφέρονται αφενός στη χωροθέτηση μονάδων υγείας και αφετέρου στην οργάνωση και διαχείρισή τους. Η καινοτομία της διατριβής αυτής είναι ότι αντιμετωπίζει τα προβλήματα αυτά σαν προβλήματα της μορφής ‘αιτία-κατάσταση-αντιμετώπιση’, δηλαδή προτείνει την ανάλυση των αιτιών (για παράδειγμα ανάλυση παραγόντων κινδύνου για τη δημιουργία Οξέος Στεφανιαίου Συνδρόμου) που οδηγούν σε μία κατάσταση (Οξύ Στεφανιαίο Σύνδρομο) και μετά χρησιμοποιεί αυτή την ανάλυση για την αντιμετώπιση των καταστάσεων (χωροθέτηση, οργάνωση και διαχείριση μονάδων καρδιαγγειακών νοσημάτων). Η Μ.Ε.Ε.Δ. βασίζεται στην ενοποίηση μεθόδων από τα πεδία της Επιχειρηματικής Νοημοσύνης (Business Intelligence), της Επιχειρησιακής Έρευνας και της Κοστολόγησης, με σκοπό αρχικά την εξαγωγή κανόνων για την εύρεση αιτιών που δημιουργούν μία κατάσταση, στη συνέχεια την αντιμετώπιση αυτής της κατάστασης με βάση τους εξορυγχθέντες κανόνες και τέλος την οργάνωση των λειτουργικών μονάδων που δημιουργήθηκαν για την αντιμετώπιση της κατάστασης. Αρχικά, χρησιμοποιούνται τρεις μέθοδοι του επιστημονικού πεδίου Εξόρυξης από Δεδομένα (data mining): οι κανόνες συσχέτισης (association rules), ταξινόμησης (classification rules) και ομαδοποίησης (clustering rules) ως τεχνικές εύρεσης ισχυρών κανόνων, δηλαδή αιτιών που δημιουργούν την κατάσταση. Στη συνέχεια, χρησιμοποιείται η ανάλυση χωροθέτησης (location analysis) από το πεδίο της επιχειρησιακής έρευνας, προκειμένου να χωροθετηθούν λειτουργικές μονάδες. Η τεχνική της προσομοίωσης (simulation) εφαρμόζεται, προκειμένου να εξετάσει σενάρια σχετικά με τη δομή και τους απαιτούμενους πόρους των μονάδων. Κατόπιν, η τεχνική της κοστολόγησης με βάση τις δραστηριότητες (Activity-based costing) χρησιμοποιείται για την κοστολόγηση των υπηρεσιών της μονάδας, ενώ η μέθοδος OLAP (On-line analytical processing) εφαρμόζεται για την παρακολούθηση της λειτουργίας της μονάδας και για τη λήψη στρατηγικών αποφάσεων και διορθωτικών μέτρων. Η εργασία αυτή προτείνει την οργάνωση των μεθόδων που αναφέρθηκαν με μία συγκεκριμένη ροή, ώστε κανείς να οδηγείται σε μία ολοκληρωμένη λύση τέτοιων πολύπλοκων προβλημάτων. / The thesis is concerned with the development of a methodology for solving a variety of problems in healthcare management, which refer to the location of health units, as well as their organization and management. The proposed methodology deals with these kinds of problems as problems of the form ‘cause-state-treatment’, which means that it proposes the analysis of the causes (for example risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease) which result in a state (cardiovascular disease) and then it uses this analysis to deal (treat) with the state (situation) (location, organization and management of Heart Disease Centers). The proposed methodology is based on the integration of various methods and techniques from the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Operational Research and Costing. Initially, the methodology extracts rules, which represent the causes that create a state, then it tackles the state (situation) based on the extracted rules, and finally it organizes the operational units, which are developed in order to deal with the state (situation). Thus, at the fist stage three data mining techniques are used: association rule mining, classification rules and clustering, as techniques for discovering strong rules in databases, that is, causes that lead to a state. Following, location analysis is used, intending to locate operational units, based on the quantitative results of the first stage. Simulation is used with the aim to examine alternative scenarios regarding the structure and the required resources (human resources as well as technology requirements) of the units. Then, activity-based costing is used to assess the efficiency of the health care technology. Finally, OLAP (On-line analytical processing) is applied in order for the health care managers to monitor the operations of the unit, as well as undertake corrective measures and finally aid decision making. The thesis proposes the organization of the aforementioned methods with a particular flow, so as the decision maker is led to an integrated solution of such complex health care management problems.

According to the Sectional Titles Act 95 of 1986, levies are assigned according to the size of a unit, in other words a unit’s participation quota. These levies are used to finance a complex’s insurance, common property electricity and water, lift maintenance, audit fees, management agent fees, salaries and wages, security, swimming pool expenses and general building maintenance. According to the Traditional Costing System, indirect costs are allocated based on a single cost actual expenses over a year are dissected. A regression and correlation analysis was done on the relationship between costs, participation quota and levies. The contribution of the study is that it empirically determines the behaviour of cost items in order to allocate indirect costs more accurately. Consequently, this will result in improved reasonability and will eliminate the cross-subsidisation of units. The objectives were reached as follows: The first objective was reached when it was proved through empirical studies that the Sectional Title is not fair when it states that the allocation of levies must be according to floor space. The second objective was reached when both participation quota and units per complex were identified as cost drivers for each cost item. The third objective was reached by allocating the levy on a 50 percent base according to units and a 50 percent base according to the total area. This could be refined by each complex according to the unique need of the complex. driver. However, various indirect costs are not necessarily subject to this single cost driver. In practice, it has been proven that high volume products are proportionally taxed with indirect costs when compared to low volume products. In many complexes, owners with larger units are of the opinion that their larger units are subsidising those owners with smaller units. In contrast to the traditional costing system, activity-based costing recognises that indirect costs can also be assigned by use of multiple cost drivers. Since these multiple cost drivers – which affect the way costs are assigned – can be identified, indirect costs are assigned more accurately. This study investigates the current method of cost allocation, whereby costs are assigned via participation quota, and makes suggestions on how these costs can be assigned on a more accurate and fair basis in practice. The goal of this study is to challenge the reasonability of the Sectional Titles Act. The objectives of the dissertation are firstly, to determine the cost behaviour of various cost items and whether the participation quota is a fair cost driver for determining the levies that are to be paid; secondly, it investigates alternative cost drivers that will be more applicable to certain cost items; thirdly, to suggest a cost formula to replace the current cost method, that being the allocation of indirect costs via participation quota. Empirical methods have been used in the research. The empirical research was performed using data obtained from ANGOR Property Specialists (Pty) Ltd’s database. A sample of 113 complexes was extracted from the database of which the / Thesis (M.Com. (Management Accountancy))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011

PPSUS / A gestão de custos, em qualquer organização, proporciona uma série de benefícios, como a segurança na boa administração dos recursos, porém é pouco utilizada na área hospitalar pública, o que se configura como um paradoxo, frente à complexidade da organização hospitalar e à situação de subfinanciamento da saúde. Sendo assim, a questão de pesquisa que norteia este estudo é: Qual a contribuição de um modelo de custeio para a governança pública nas unidades hospitalares próprias do Estado do Paraná? Este estudo tem como objetivo propor um modelo de custeio para a gestão de custos em hospitais públicos administrados diretamente pelo Estado, como proposta de aprimoramento para controle, transparência, orçamentação e planejamento das ações estratégicas de saúde. Tal estudo mostra-se relevante, uma vez que a área hospitalar é bastante complexa, tornando-se ferramenta útil para tomada de decisão sobre investimentos, alterações de perfil de atendimento, utilização de capacidade ociosa, ampliações de serviços, entre outros. O sistema de saúde público brasileiro necessita de máxima eficiência, tendo em vista os direitos universais garantidos pela Constituição Federal. Assim, justifica-se pela complexidade hospitalar, um cenário de elevada evolução de custos, seja pela mudança do perfil demográfico e epidemiológico, como o envelhecimento da população brasileira e o crescente número de doenças crônicas, bem como pela crescente evolução tecnológica e seu incremento acelerado. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-ação com base no levantamento de resultados de pesquisas similares para análise da aplicação do modelo de custeio para organizações hospitalares, bem como a análise empírica das informações existentes em dois hospitais selecionados. Com base nos conceitos teóricos e empíricos da aplicação da metodologia de custo por absorção, gera elementos para melhor compreensão do problema para desenvolver o modelo de custeio. A avaliação dos resultados se constitui em importante instrumento de gestão dos hospitais e da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, pois permite aos dirigentes maior segurança diante das dificuldades e desafios impostos nesse segmento, caso contrário há uma restrição ainda maior na gestão, no financiamento e operacionalização dos hospitais públicos. / Cost management brings about several benefits to any type of organization, such as the certainty that resources are well managed, but it is not much used by the public hospital sector, what is a paradox seeing that hospital management is complex and public health faces an under-financing situation. Based on the aforementioned facts, the present study aims at answering the following question: What is the contribution of costing models to public governance in the State of Paraná public hospitals? So, the study objective is to propose a costing management model addressed to improve health strategy control, transparency, budget and planning actions in public hospitals directly managed by the State of Paraná. Since the hospital sector is complex, our study is highly relevant as a helping tool to: investment decision-making processes, changes of healthcare profile, use of spare capacity and service improvement, among others. Considering the universal rights ensured by the Brazilian Federal Constitution, the country public health system needs to show maximum efficiency. In addition to hospital complexity, the sector increased costs are justified by the change of demographic and epidemiological profiles, Brazilian population aging, chronic disease growth, increased technological evolution and development. The research/action is based on the results of similar researches addressed to analyze the application of costing models addressed to hospital organization, as well as on the empiric analysis of data existing in two hospitals selected by the study. By applying the theoretical and empiric costing absorption methodology, our study provides elements to help understanding the problems involved in the costing model development. Result assessment is an important tool which permits Hospital and the State Health Department managers to deal with the sector challenges and difficulties more easily, since it helps lessen the restrictions imposed to public hospital management, financing and operation.

This study examined the nature and extent of relations between Management of Technology [MOT] and cost management. It explores the roles of competencies and competency measurement in these relations and its associations with company performance. The problem statement asks how the MOT community deals with cost management, whether MOT-based cost management competencies can be isolated and measured, whether a tool for measurement can be created, tested and validated and indeed whether it can be used to assess relations between MOT-based cost management competencies and company performance. To answer these questions, a MOT-based cost management competency index is formulated, consisting of problem statements representing MOT-based cost management insights, knowledge and practices. Designed in the format of a typical research survey, the index is used to source data from sampled companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange [JSE]. Although too small a sample to generalise about the population, sufficient data is collected and processed with statistical software programs. A second set of variables, about financial performance of the responding companies, consists of Asset Turnover [ATO] and Return on Assets Managed [ROAM]. Data for these variables is sourced from their annual financial statements and processed into ATO and ROAM indicators. The combined research data set is used to critically describe statistical qualities of variables such as ATO, ROAM, MOT-based cost management competencies of company executives, their education and exposure to the executive management teams in their respective organizations. The research data is subsequently subjected to correlation analysis, as foundation for hypothesis testing. Among the relationships described by correlation analysis and warranting further examination with regression analysis, are associations between MOT-based cost management competencies and ATO and between Education and MOT-based cost management competencies. The former association is found to be not significant, having the research hypothesis rejected. A significant association between Education and MOT-based cost management competencies is indeed found. Utilizing regression equations yielded by the analyses, the predictive capacity of regression analysis is used to demonstrate results of interventions in those associations postulated in the research hypotheses. The study concludes that it achieved a qualified success in its first objective, which was to formulate a MOT-based cost management competency index, and to demonstrate its application as measurement and management tool on executive managers of JSE-listed companies. The study failed in its second objective, which was to demonstrate a significant association between MOT-based cost management competencies and financial performance of sampled companies. Critical perspectives on the data and the associations tested reveal important shortcomings in the research. These perspectives do though create opportunities for refinement of the MOT-based cost management competency index as measurement and management tool, validation of its status, and indeed demonstration of its business value to the MOT and business community in particular. In closure, the study was meant as a contribution to the discourse on a credo for MOT and the MOT body of knowledge, and it subjects itself to critical analysis by the research community so as to establish whether it succeeded in indeed making such a contribution. / Business Management / M.Tech. (Business Administration)

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:15:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1998-03-24T00:00:00Z / O trabalho apresenta uma evolução dos sistemas gerenciais de custos. Analisa as principais mudanças que estão ocorrendo no ambiente competitivo e seus reflexos na deterioração da qualidade das informações de custos dos sistemas gerenciais. Discute conceitos relacionados ao custeiobaseado em atividades (ABC) e à gestão-baseada em atividades (ABM), que podem constituir-se em instrumentos para melhoria dessas informações. Realiza ainda um estudo exploratório sobre o estágio de utilização desses conceitos em empresas situadas no Brasil, com base na experiência de empresas de consultoria que implementam esses projetos nos mais diversos setores da economia.

Financail Accounting / D.Com. (Applied Accountancy)

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the costs of a organization with fictitious name PROFIL Ltd. for the period 2007 - 2012 and then propose measures to improve the performance of the company by optimizing various cost types. The theoretical part describes the traditional tools and modern methods of cost management. The application part is focused on the characteristics of organization, evaluation of its financial situation during the reporting period, analysis of cost structures, analysis of break-even point, estimation of cost functions and analysis of organization?s individual cost items, followed by drawing conclusions and action plans.

Orientador: Jose Wilson Magalhães Bassani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T12:39:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rocha_LeticiaSantosda_D.pdf: 931669 bytes, checksum: a042ec9b535989c70d7e76efd1b732dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O Centro de Engenharia Biomédica (CEB) da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) gerencia as atividades de manutenção (corretivas e preventivas) de um parque de cerca de 10.000 equipamentos médicos da área de saúde da Universidade, que inclui dois hospitais, dois centros médicos e uma escola de medicina. Para controlar estes serviços, o setor de Engenharia Clínica do CEB possui um sistema de gerenciamento baseado em uma máquina de estados, no qual todas as ordens de serviço (OS) são caracterizadas por trajetórias compostas pelos estados pelos quais cada OS passa durante a sua execução. Os estados são microprocessos ativados para solução de tarefas específicas. Cada mudança entre microprocessos é denominada, neste sistema, transicão. A nossa hipótese de trabalho foi que seria possível implementar no CEB um método de cálculo do custo das OS utilizando a técnica de custeio por atividade (Activity Based Costing, ABC). Para testar esta hipótese, tomamos as atividades (unidades fundamentais para a composição do custo ABC) equivalentes às transicões. Com esta abordagem fomos capazes de extrair o custo ABC das ordens de serviço, calcular o custo dos serviços prestados, exercitar o conceito de lucratividade (simulando valores de venda para cada OS com base no mercado), explicitar os custos das atividades dos indivíduos dentro dos diversos setores do CEB e estudar o impacto sobre o serviço (conjunto de atividades) de um determinado excedente "planejado", mediante o oferecimento de serviços para o mercado. Tendo em vista a possibilidade de calcular lucros para cada tipo de OS, pudemos estudar a aplicação de um processo de decisão, usando a técnica processo de hierarquia analítica (Ana/ytic Hierarchy Process, AHP) para decidir sobre a escolha da manutenção feita por terceiros ou feita pela equipe da casa. Os exercícios de cálculo de custos em diferentes condições ilustram a possibilidade de uso do ABC para gerenciamento baseado em atividade (Activity Based Management, ABM) e resultaram valores compatíveis com a realidade do sistema público universitário de saúde (e.g. custo das OS, custo do trabalho e atividades no CEB). Concluímos que a estratégia adotada de equivalência entre atividades e transições viabiliza e facilita a implementação do sistema ABC (o que confirma a nossa hipótese) e que, tendo em vista os preços praticados no mercado, um excedente da venda de serviço pode ser gerado, mesmo em um sistema público de saúde como o da UNICAMP, no qual os custos, essencialmente fixos (e.g. pessoal, depreciação, custos gerais), não podem ser reduzidos de modo trivial / Abstract: The Center for Biomedical Engineering (CEB) at 8tate University of Campinas (UNICAMP) manages the maintenance activities (corrective and preventive) of about 10,000 medical devices for the health care area of the university, which is comprised by two hospitais, two medical centers and a medicine school. In order to control these maintenance activities, the Clinical Engineering department makes use of a state machine-based management system in which the service orders (80) are characterized by trajectories (sequence of states) constructed while the 80 is processed. The states are microprocesses, which are activated to solve specific tasks. Each transition between two microprocesses (the state transition) is named, in short, a transition. We worked under the hypothesis that it would be feasible to implement at CEB a method for 80 costing based on the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) technique. To test our hypothesis, we made activity, fundamental token for ABC, equivalent to transition. With this approach, we were able to extract the ABC cost of each 80, to estimate cost for a specific service proposal, to exercise the concept of profitability by simulating selling costs for each 80 based in the current market, to explicit activity costs for individual jobs in CEB, and to study the impact of offering external services upon the total amount of activities of a certain "planned profit". By the analysis of 80 involving third party services, we studied the possibility of using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to choose between third party or in-house services. The different conditions of ABC application in the present work iIIustrated the possibility of using ABC for Activity-Based Management (ABM), with results compatible with the expected figures for a public university health system (which validated our hypothesis). We conclude that our strategy of equivalence between activity and transition made the ABC feasible and relatively simple. We also found that according to the current market prices it is possible to envisage profit even in a health system such as in UNICAMP, in which costs are essentially fixed (e.g. staff, depreciation, general costs) / Doutorado / Engenharia Biomedica / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica