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Download full textPrice, Douglas S. – 1972
Management of an information function requires detailed knowledge of what is being spent, how it is spent, and what is received in return for the money. Simply knowing whether a profit has been made or a loss suffered, and even knowing how expenditures were distributed, is not enough information for management. Building block cost analysis is…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Information Systems
Peer reviewedPrice, Douglas S. – Special Libraries, 1974
A system called Building Block Costing is explained, with examples of techniques, reports, and application of results. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Information Services
Price, Douglas S. – 1971
This document attempts to provide managers and designers of information systems with a usable, practical "building block" system for unit costing. The model is sufficiently flexible to be applicable to a wide variety of cost control requirements; costing elements include project, product, account, organization and function. Design of the cost…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Costs, Economics, Information Centers
