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Why capacity trumps costs
Author(s) -
YuLee Reginald Tomas
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of corporate accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1097-0053
pISSN - 1044-8136
DOI - 10.1002/jcaf.10148
Subject(s) - business , capacity management , operations management , risk analysis (engineering) , industrial organization , computer science , economics , computer network
Abstract Understanding how to reduce costs is not hard. But savings accrue only from acting on improvement ideas, andonly then will there be any financial benefit. Ultimately, companies have to execute effectual managementpractices to successfully manage their costs. To effectively utilize capacity, a company's managers musttake extra steps to reduce the capacity or else pay less for it. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals,Inc.