Strategic Cost Analysis & Management Unit 1 : Introduction to Strategic Cost Analysis, Cost Management & Cost Accounting: Basic Concepts & Terms, Classification of Cost, Cost Management tools, Strategic view of Cost Management- Value Chain Analysis, Strategic Positioning Analysis, Cost Driver Analysis. 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 Costi...