2024 - Franco Angeli
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From cost control to cost management : how is the current state of the Italian context?
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- The change in markets' dynamics occurred during the last 50 years led to a signifi-cant transformation within the cost structure of companies, resulting in a gradual loss of cost control systems' effectiveness. This caused a progressive shift from cost control to cost management (CM), involving the use of innovative tools and approaches that provide more suitable cost allocation methods, cost computation logics, and allow to detect value-creating costs in order to support the decision-making process.resent work aims at exploring the current state of CM application in the Ital-ian context, identifying the main mechanisms implemented and the key percep-tions of organizations concerning the upsides, downsides and innovativeness of CM logics.The findings show that the level of CM diffusion has increased.
- in the most recent years compared to the evidence of prior research, but most companies still don't use CM systems. Processes and activities-based approaches are increasingly ap-plied; however, besides traceable costing logics, the traditional full costing methods are still highly used. Companies benefited from the implementation of CM sys-tems, since they supply data that allow to understand which are the main causes of complexity, what costs really create value and facilitate participation in the de-cision-making process. However, the high quantity of resources required for the system's development and the resilience of people to the process of change still represent barriers that hinder the diffusion of CM.ain implication of the study is raising awareness about the importance of using suitable CM systems to evaluate costs as well as signaling the potential chal-lenges of their application. The twofold role of human resources in the process of CM innovation is explored.[Publisher's Text].
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Management Control : 1, 2024-
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Código DOI: 10.3280/MACO2024-001010
ISSN: 2239-4397
KEYWORDS
- Cost Management, Cost Control, Italy, Activity-Based Costing, Com-plexity, Decision Making
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