Edward J. Blocher is an emeritus professor of accounting at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His undergraduate degree (economics) is from Rice University, his MBA from Tulane University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Blocher has presented regularly on strategic cost management at the national meetings of both the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
While he is involved in a number of accounting organizations, Professor Blocher has been most continually active in the IMA, where he has been a member of the IMA's Research Foundation. He is a certified management accountant (CMA), has taught review courses for the CMA exam, and has served on the IMA's national education committee. He has supervised or participated in the direction of several doctoral students, many of whom prepared dissertations in management accounting. Professor Blocher is also the author or co-author of several articles in management accounting and in other areas of accounting and has served as associate editor and reviewer for a number of accounting journals. He has a 2009 article in Issues in Accounting Education on the topic of teaching strategic cost management.
Putting research and teaching into practice is important to Professor Blocher, who has worked closely with other firms and organizations in developing products, publications, and teaching materials. He was a member of the task force for the IMA that developed a new definition of management accounting in 2008. From 2010-2014, he served as a member of the joint curriculum task force of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) of the AAA and the IMA, which was charged with the responsibility of developing curriculum recommendations for accounting education. The task force has two recent publications in Issues in Accounting Education. Also, he has provided expert testimony and has consulted with a number of organizations regarding cost management matters.

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Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Juras/Smith is dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? It answers this question by providing cost-management tools and techniques needed to support an organization's competitiveness, improve its performance, and help the organization accomplish its strategy. The text is written to help students understand the broader role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed - and not just the measurement of costs. While the text does include coverage of traditional costing topics (e.g., job-order costing, process costing, service-department cost allocations, and accounting for joint and by-products), its primary strength is the linkage of these topics, as well as more contemporary topics, to an organization's strategy.

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PART ONE: Introduction to Strategy, Cost Management, and Cost Systems
1 Cost Management and Strategy
2 Implementing Strategy The Value Chain, the Balanced Scorecard, and the Strategy Map
3 Basic Cost Management Concepts
4 Job Costing
5 Activity-Based Costing and Customer Profitability Analysis
6 Process Costing
7 Cost Allocation Departments, Joint Products, and By-Products
PART TWO: Planning and Decision Making
8 Cost Estimation
9 Short-Term Profit Planning Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
10 Strategy and the Master Budget
11 Decision Making with a Strategic Emphasis
12 Strategy and the Analysis of Capital Investments
13 Cost Planning for the Product Life Cycle Target Costing, Theory of Constraints, and Strategic Pricing
PART THREE: Operational-Level Control
14 Operational Performance Measurement Sales, Direct Cost Variances, and the Role of Nonfinancial Performance Measures
15 Operational Performance Measurement Indirect Cost Variances and Resource Capacity Management
16 Operational Performance Measurement Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales
17 The Management and Control of Quality
PART FOUR: Management-Level Control
18 Strategic Performance Measurement Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and the Balanced Scorecard
19 Strategic Performance Measurement Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing
20 Management Compensation, Business Analysis, and Business Valuation