Strategic Cost Analysis & Management |
Cost Elements: Direct Costs: Material Cost Management; Managing Purchase
Functions, Storing of Materials, Valuing Material Issues, Operating Control
Systems; Labour Cost Management : Methods of Remuneration.
Unit 2: Overheads: Definition and
Classification, Production Overheads, Administration & Selling and
Distribution Overhead.
Unit 3: Cost Control Accounts,
Reconciliation of Cost and Financial Accounts, Job and Contract Costing,
Process Costing, Process Losses and Internal Process Profits, Equivalents
Production.
Unit 4: Marginal Costing, Conceptual
framework, Marginal Costing and Management Decision. Standard Costing, Cost and Sales Variances.
Unit 5: Cost Audit, Activity Based
Costing, Target Costing, Life Cycle Costing, Bench Marking, Strategic Cost
Management, Cost Reduction, Value Auditing and Value Engineering.