Selecting the best costing method for your situation
- Absorption, marginal, activity-based costing
- Determining costs in service businesses
- Avoiding costing traps
The unique features of project costing
- Estimating project duration and future costs
- Leveraging debt to your advantage
- Anticipating problems using cost control
- Making estimates based on incomplete information
Choosing projects that optimize shareholders' interests
- Making the financial case using ROI
- Advantages and disadvantages of ROI, payback, discounted cash flow (DCF) and NPV techniques
- Selecting viable projects