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Schedule and Cost Control: View Available Dates and Locations Learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to develop a work breakdown schedule, grasp diagramming techniques, identify task relationships, determine the critical path, employ estimating techniques, and...; Tags: Technique, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Cost Management, Cost Control, Work Breakdown Structure, Productivity, Project Management, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Finance; Training 2008-02-01
Supply Chain Cost Visibility: A New Perspective to Cost Management: As the owner of one of the world's largest and most complex supply chain ecosystems, HP has extensive and ongoing experience with the critical issues surrounding supply chain cost visibility. Seeking faster and more closely targeted response to shifting marketplace demands, HP developed its own comprehensive strategy framework for managing...; Tags: Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cost Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-02-01
MenuCostPro (exe): MenuCostPro is an easy-to-use program for calculating and analyzing menu prices. Ideal for owners of restaurants, bed and breakfasts and small hotels that want a fully functional cost management tool without spending a fortune. MenuCostPro has most of the functions of other software programs costing five times as much: ingredients...; Tags: Cost Management, MenuCostPro, Managerial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2005-11-08
Activity-Based Cost Management: The traditional "overhead functions" of a business, once widely criticized by internal customers, are becoming today's shared services organizations. The initial consolidation of functions into a single service provider may have been designed simply to remove redundancies and save costs. However, a pleasant, unexpected consequence of shared services can be...; Tags: Function, Cost Management, SAS Institute, Service Provider, Managerial Accounting, Business Services, Finance; White papers 2004-09-01
A Shipshape Costing Structure: U.S. Navy Improves Financial Visibility With Activity-Based Cost Management: Encouraging military leaders to look at the business aspects of war is not always an easy task, but the U.S. Navy does it with an activity-based cost management (ABC/M) program that utilizes SAS Activity-Based Management software. Using ABC/M financial intelligence to break down costs by individual activities, leaders identify resource...; Tags: Financial, Cost Management, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance; Case studies

Teaching Cost Management to Students of Engineering: Lessons From a Different Battlefield: The authors believe Activity-Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) is needed and powerful. Many years of professional and academic work have taught the author a few things, including the notion that managerial decisions and controls must be firmly assisted by knowledge tools. When he was first introduced to ABC - in its early...; Tags: Cost Management, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance; White papers
Do Organizations Consider Strategic Cost Management When They Outsource to China?: In today's economy, the driving force behind global competition can be summarized in a single equation: Value = (Quality + Technology + Service + Cycle Time) / Price. At the same time, the trend towards increasing outsourcing to China seems to focus entirely on the denominator - price. Although outsourcing...; Tags: China, Cost Management, Outsource, Equation, SAS Institute, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; White papers
The Evolution of Activity-Based Business Intelligence (ABBI): Born from the desks of accountants, Activity-Based Costing ABC is rapidly transforming from a cost management tool to a strategic weapon, as organizations around the world are faced with seemingly unprecedented competitive pressures. The two principal drivers of these pressures are the tangible existence of a global marketplace and shareholder/...; Tags: Cost Management, SAS Institute, Managerial Accounting, Finance; White papers
Furniture Manufacturer Builds a Better Network and Cost Management/Marketing Solution: Over the last two years, Carolina's Choice by Williams, Inc., has been challenged to keep the cost of goods under control as the price of raw materials fluctuated wildly. Capturing, changing, and communicating the new cost information to its sales channel needed to happen more rapidly. With the help of...; Tags: Network, Cost Management, Sales Strategy, Managerial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance; Case studies

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
iPhone gas application roundup: On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Foxconn snubs Linux users: Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Talent development: Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...; Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerabilityOpenDNS is greatI have been using OpenDNS for over 5 months now on the company network and it does a great job for us. I would recommend everyone use this tool as it has increased our DNS...; Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, Powerdns, DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability, DNS; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...; Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
A Friday Active Directory puzzler: A Friday Active Directory puzzlerSuggestions...Have you installed the required hotfixes and patches in the 2000 environment? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331161similar problemupgraded a larger AD domain from 2000 to 2003 by adding a 2003 server.Depending on the error, it could be a lot of things.I got a similar error.it came down to using the...; Tags: Friday Active Directory puzzler, Friday Active Directory, puzzler; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1: The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gateway stops selling PCs direct: Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...; Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25