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EDWARD J. BLOCHER, KUNG H. CHEN, and THOMAS W. LIN, Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, Second Edition (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/ Irwin, 2002, pp. xxx, 1010).
Blocher, Chen and Lin (BCL) represents one of many books issued in today's competitive market for cost/management accounting textbooks. All such books, including BCL, provide similar chapter outlines, summaries and contents, devoting chapters to traditional topics of cost concepts, cost estimation, cost volume profit analysis (CVP), job order and process costing, and cost allocation, as well as recent topics on just-in-time technology (JIT), activity based costing (ABC), activity management, balanced scorecard, total quality management (TQM) and business process reengineering (BPR). BCL provides chapter end review problems, exercises, problems, and cases and incorporate spreadsheet applications for selected chapter end problems. Their instructor support materials include test banks, ready notes, solutions manual, transparency master outlines, a complete CD-ROM and web sites. Student...