Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins is a Product Marketing Manager with SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.

Gary also blogs regularly at http://blogs.sas.com/cokins

After earning an industrial engineering degree from Cornell University in 1971 and an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Cokins began his career as a financial controller and operations manager with FMC Corp. For 15 years, he was a consultant at Deloitte, KPMG Peat Marwick, and Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he headed EDS’s Cost Management Consulting Services.


He was the lead author of the acclaimed An ABC Manager’s Primer (ISBN 0-86641-220-4), sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). His Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide (ISBN 0-471-44328-X) recently ranked as the best-selling book of 151 titles on the topic. His other books include Activity-Based Cost Management: Making It Work (ISBN 0-7863-0740-4) and Activity-Based Cost Management in Government (ISBN 1-056726-110-8). His latest books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (ISBN 0-471-57690-5) and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1).

Cokins participates and serves on a number of committees, including CAM-I, the Supply Chain Council, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), and the Institute of Management Accountants. He is a member of the Journal of Cost Management Editorial Advisory Board.


SAS
gary.cokins@sas.com
919-531-2012