Target costing – znaczenie perspektywy klienta w procesie ustalania ceny
Target costing – the meaning of customer’s perspective in the price setting process

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present, from marketing perspective, the essence of target costing. The concept of target costing refers to the process of determining the costs and defining the level of prices – the area of marketing activities, where taking into account the role of the client was not a standard. The idea of target costing was born in an extremely competitive environment in Japan in the 60s. of the twentieth century. And it is seen as an important tool to reduce costs and to improve the competitiveness level of the company. According to target costing, concept price plays an important role in the whole process of cost management – price is the starting point of all activities, what is important – it is a determinant of the cost not vice versa.

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