Financial analysis is an important skill for purchasers, it can help them to understand their supplier’s accounts and quotations in further detail and formulate reports using ratios to make better use of information available. These reports can then be used as the basis for making informed decisions.
No purchasing professional can afford to be unaware of the various cost accounting approaches (Lysons and Farrington, 2006)
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Cost-to-serve methods are flexible and free from heavy prescriptions … [they] can be applied at varying levels of sophistication from simple spread sheets to...
What separates EVA from other performance metrics ... is that it measures all of the costs of running a business-operating and financing (Stern Stewart and Co).