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A325 Cost Accounting. January 9, 2012. What we will do today. Introduce the course and ourselves Go over the syllabus Have an abbreviated discussion of chapters 1 and 2. Get started with Chapter 3. Syllabus. Syllabus - materials. Cost Management: A strategic emphasis
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A325Cost Accounting January 9, 2012 A325 - Reed Smith
What we will do today • Introduce the course and ourselves • Go over the syllabus • Have an abbreviated discussion of chapters 1 and 2. • Get started with Chapter 3 A325 - Reed Smith
Syllabus A325 - Reed Smith
Syllabus - materials Cost Management: A strategic emphasis Blocher, Chen, Cokins, and Lin (5ed) A325 - Reed Smith
Syllabus - the way things work • Regular updates/modifications to they syllabus will be on ONCOURSE • YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE A325 - Reed Smith
Syllabus A325 - Reed Smith
A little about me… Reed Smith Accounting (BS, MAcc Tennessee) (PhD, Ohio State) (Faculty: Texas, Oregon, SUNY-Buffalo, Indiana University) e-mail: jrsmith2@iupui.edu I am a big college football enthusiast. I also like to sail and swim. I play Zimbabwean music on Marimba and Mbira. I used to play guitar, but don’t find much time to do that any more. A325 - Reed Smith
Four Functions of Management Strategicmanagement Planning anddecision making Management and operational control Preparation offinancial statements A325 - Reed Smith
Strategic cost management is the development of cost management information to facilitate the principal management function, strategic management Strategic Cost Management A325 - Reed Smith
Strategic Management Strategic management requires: • Anticipating changes • Understanding the business andcompetitive environment • Ability to make changes quickly • Ability to identify and solve problemsfrom a cross-functional view A325 - Reed Smith
Wholesalers Retailers Types of Organizations Merchandisers Manufacturers Servicefirms Government and Not-for-profit A325 - Reed Smith
Changes in Business Environment • Increase in global competition • Advances in manufacturing technologies • Advances in information technologies • Greater focus on the customer • New forms of management organization • Social, political, and cultural changes A325 - Reed Smith
Target Costing Identify product opportunity. Determine price that wouldmake product competitive. Determine if product can be made at cost sufficiently low to provide a desired profit. A325 - Reed Smith
The Value Chain • The value chain is an analysis tool firms use to identify the specific steps required to provide a product or service to the customer • An analysis of the firm’s value chain helps management discover: • which steps or activities are not competitive • where costs can be reduced • which activity should be outsourced A325 - Reed Smith
The Balanced Scorecard The balanced scorecard is an accounting report that includes the firm’s critical success factors in four areas: • Financial performance • Customer satisfaction • Internal business processes • Innovation and learning A325 - Reed Smith
The Balanced Scorecard Learning improvesbusiness processes. Improved businessprocesses improvecustomer satisfaction. Improving customersatisfaction improvesfinancial results. A325 - Reed Smith
Strategic Positioning Firms arrive at one of two competitive strategies: • Cost leadership is a competitive strategy in which a firm succeeds in producing products or services at the lowest cost in the industry • Differentiation is a competitive strategy in which a firm succeeds by developing and maintaining a unique value for the product as perceived by consumers A325 - Reed Smith