Strategic Cost Management and Performance Evaluation

Paper Code: 
BCP-612
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

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Paper Title

BCP-612

Strategic Cost Management and Performance Evaluation

CO 181:Describe  Modern Business Environment and  Strategic Cost Management

CO 182: Make use cost management techniques for planning and controlling performance in order to set, monitor and control strategic Course Objectives: s.

CO 183:Make use of Budgetary control and standard costing

CO 184:Describe in detail Lean System and Innovation, Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Divisional Transfer Pricing, Budgetary Control and Standard Costing

CO 185:Make use of Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making

CO 186:Describe in detailPerformance Measurement and Evaluation and Strategic Analysis of Operating Income

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

18.00

Introduction to Strategic Cost Management
(i) Concept of Strategic Cost Management
(ii) Limitations of Traditional Cost Management
(iii) Traditional vs. Strategic Cost Management
Modern Business Environment
(i) Introduction/ Characteristics
(ii) Cost of Quality, TQM, Business Excellence Model
(iii) Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints
(iv) Supply Chain Management (SCM)
(v) Gain Sharing Arrangements
(vi) Outsourcing

18.00

Lean System and Innovation
(i) Introduction to Lean System a) Just-in-Time (JIT) b) Kaizen Costing c) 5 Ss d) Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) e) Cellular Manufacturing/ One-Piece Flow Production Systems f) Six Sigma (SS)
(ii) Introduction to Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
Cost Management Techniques
(i) Cost Control/ Waste Control, Cost Reduction
(ii) Target Costing
(iii) Value Analysis/ Value Engineering
(iv) Pareto Analysis
(v) Life Cycle Costing
(vi) Environmental Management Accounting

18.00

Decision Making
(i) Decision Making using CVP Analysis
(ii) Decision Making using Relevant Cost Concepts
(iii) Decision Making using Activity Based Costing
(iv) Ethical and Non-Financial Considerations Relevant to Decision Making
Pricing Strategies/ Decisions
(i) Theory & Principles of Product Pricing
(ii) Pricing – New Product, Finished Products & Pricing of Services
(iii) Sensitivity Analysis in Pricing Decisions
(iv) Pricing Decision under Special Circumstances
(v) Pricing Strategies

18.00

Performance Measurement and Evaluation
(i) Responsibility Accounting
(ii) Linking Critical Success Factors (CSFs) to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Corporate Strategy; Performance Measurement Models‒The Balanced Scorecard, The Performance Pyramid, The Performance Prism and The Building Block Model; Divisional Performance Measures; Benchmarking Schemes
(iii) Performance Measurement in the Not-for-Profit Sector
(iv) Preparation of Performance Reports
Divisional Transfer Pricing
(i) Meaning, Purpose and Principles of Transfer Pricing
(ii) Methods of Transfer Pricing
(iii) The Behavioral Consequences arising from Divisional Structures
(iv) International Transfer Pricing
Strategic Analysis of Operating Income
(i) Operating Profit Analysis
(ii) Advanced Activity Based Costing, Activity Based Management (ABM), Activity Based Budgeting (ABB)

18.00

Budgetary Control
(i)The Concept of Feedback and Feed Forward Control
(ii)Behavioral Aspects of Budgeting
(iii)Behavioral Aspects of Budgetary Control
(iv)Beyond Budgeting
Standard Costing
(i)Analysis of Advanced Variances
(ii)Integration of Standard Costing with Marginal Cost Accounting
(iii)Reconciliation of Profit
(iv)Variance Investigation Techniques, Interpretation of Variances, Possible Interdependence Between Variances and Reporting
(v)Behavioral Aspects of Standard Costing, Limitation of Standard Costing.
Case Study (covering Course Concepts)

References: 

1. Study Material issued by ICAI

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