STRATEGIC COST MANAGMENT

Paper Code: 
ATG 424
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

CO 109:  Describe some of the techniques and processes that are available to assist managers in planning and controlling organizational activities;

CO 110:Analyze the processes involved in identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting and communicating information to managers in pursuit of the organization’s goals;

CO 111:  Explain the role of cost information in organizations;

CO 112:  Analyze the linkage between cost data and systems and the organization of activities and resource flows in a range of manufacturing and service activities;

CO 113:  Apply appropriate cost allocation techniques to a variety of costing variety of costing problems;

CO 114:  Develop strategies for managing costs; 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, assignments.

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions,  Giving tasks,

 

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

  

 

14.00

• Introduction to Strategic Cost Management Concept of Strategic Cost Management; Components of SCM, Limitations of Traditional Cost Management ,Traditional vs. Strategic Cost Management
• Cost Control and Cost Reduction–basics, process, methods and techniques of cost reduction programme.

18.00

• Total Quality Management(TQM): Six C’s of TQM, Implementation of TQM, Criticism of TQM,
• Just In Time (JIT): Essential Pre-requisites of JIT system, Impact, Performance measurement, Back-flushing in JIT system.
• Life cycle costing: Product life cycle, life cycle characteristics, strategies, benefits, uses.

18.00

• Transfer Pricing:Utility, methods: market based, Cost based and Negotiation based Transfer pricing, Transfer Pricing Decisions in different Circumstances.
• Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering: Process innovation, Principles of BPR, Main stages, difference between BPR and PI.
• Pareto Analysis: Usefulness and application

18.00

• Target Costing: Advantages, main features, components of target costing system, problems with target costing, impact on profitability, target costing control points, implementation of target costing system.
• Value chain analysis: Concept,value chain linkages; Internal linkages; Supplier linkages; Customer linkages; Role of value-chain in decision analysis.

22.00

• Kaizen Costing: Meaning, Target costing v/s kaizen costing, Benchmarking, Types , pre- requisites and steps of benchmarking,
• Pricing Strategies/ Decisions : Theory & Principles of Product Pricing, Pricing – New Product, Finished Products & Pricing of Services, Sensitivity Analysis in Pricing Decisions ,Pricing Decision under Special Circumstances , Pricing Strategies

Essential Readings: 

• Strategic Cost Management : Lal, Jawahar (Himalaya Publishing House.)
• Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions : Hilton,RonaldW.,Maher, Michael W. & Selto, Frank A. (McGraw Hill Irwin.)
• Strategic Cost Management :Shank, John K. &Govindarajan, Vijay.(The Free Press)

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

e-RESOURCES:

JOURNALS:

  • Business Perspectives and Research
  • IUP Journal of Accounting Research
  • Jindal Journal of Business Research
  • Nirma University Journal of Business & Management Studies
  • Oorja
  • The Chartered Accountant
  • The Indian Journal of Commerce

Note- The candidate shall be permitted to use battery operated pocket calculator that should not have more than 12 digits, 6 functions and 2 memories and should be noiseless and cordless

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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