this book provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. these best practices are based on in the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the institute of management and administration (ioma) and other leading experts in their fields. the tentative contents is: (1) corporate cost control strategies, (2) human resources department costs, (3) benefits costs, (4) compensation costs, (5) 401(k) plan costs, (6) training and development costs, (7) accounting department costs, (8) accounts payable costs, (9) credit and collections costs, (10) purchasing costs, (11) inventory costs, (12) export costs, (13) outsourcing costs, (14) downsizing, (15) consultants costs, and (16) business tax costs.