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Lesson 3 - SCM PDF
Lesson 3 - SCM PDF
Lesson 3 - SCM PDF
COST MANAGEMENT
TECHNIQUES
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
1. The Balanced Scorecard and the Strategy Map
BALANCED SCORECARD
• Is an accounting report that includes the firm’s critical
success factors in 4 areas:
1) Financial performance
2) Customer satisfaction
3) Internal business process
4) Innovation and learning
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Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
2. The Value Chain
An analysis tool used to identify the specific
steps required to provide a competitive
product
Helps identify steps that can be eliminated or
outsourced
3. Activity-Based Costing and Management
Activity-Based Costing (ABC) improves the
tracing of costs to individual products and
customers
Activity-Based Management (ABM) improves
operational and management control
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VALUE CHAIN
The set of activities required to The linked set of activities that
design, develop, produce, market, increases the usefulness or the
and deliver products and services to value of the products or services of
customers an organization.
Linkages
• Internal Linkages
• Relationships among activities that are performed
within a firm’s portion of the value chain
• External Linkages
• Describe the relationship of a firm’s value chain
activities that are performed with its suppliers and
customers
• Two types: supplier linkages and customer linkages
Sample of order
in a value chain:
1. R&D
2. Design
13-10
3. Production
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
3. Activity-Based Costing and Management
Activity-Based Costing (ABC) improves the
tracing of costs to individual products and
customers
Activity-Based Management (ABM)
improves operational and management
control
Kindly read chapter 6 of cost accounting by
Paul De Jesus….
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Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
4. Business Intelligence
• an approach to strategy implementation in which the
management accountant uses data to understand and
analyze business performance.
5. Target Costing
• Target Cost = Market-determined price – Desired Profit
• A method that has resulted from intensely competitive
markets
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
6. Life-Cycle Costing
• Costs should be monitored throughout a product’s
life cycle – from research and development to
sales and service
7. Benchmarking
• Process by which a firm identifies its CSFs ( critical
success factors ), studies the best practices of
other firms in achieving these CSFs, and institutes
change based on the assessment results
Benchmarking
• is a technique that measures a company’s performance
against the best in industry.
• Studies the best practices of other firms or other units within
a firm for achieving there critical success factors
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
8. Business Process Improvement
• This technique involves managers and workers
committing to a program of continuous improvement
in quality and other CSFs
-a team approach that involves themselves to the never-ending pursuit to improve the
quality of goods and services to attain customer satisfaction and delight.
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)
10. Lean accounting uses value streams to measure the
financial benefits of a firm’s progress in implementing
lean manufacturing.
Theory of Constraints
• Modern production methodology emphasizes strengthening the weakest link of the co. to
improve operations to become more efficient and effective
• Is a process of identifying and managing constraints in the making of products or in
providing of services
• A technique used to improve speed in the manufacturing process and thus speed
TOC defines 3 measurements: Operational Measures
1. Throughput contribution: RATE at which an organization generates money through
sales……..Revenues
2. Investments: MONEY that is tied up in physical things…….sum of materials costs in direct
materials, work-in-process, and finished goods inventories, r&d costs and costs of
equipment and buildings
3. Operating costs: MONEY that the organization spends in turning inventories and
investments into throughput………..all costs of operation incurred to earn throughput
contribution, it includes salaries and wages, rent, utilities and depreciation
Contemporary Management
Techniques (continued)