Strategic cost management

13 important questions on Strategic cost management

What cost control system treats pre- and post manufacturing costs as period costs

Traditional

See if profits made during the manufacturing phase cover pre- and post-manufacturing costs

Life-cycle costing

Understand how life-cycle costs are comitted and incurred at different stages and manage those costs during a products's planning and design phase

Target costing
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During which stage is Kaizen costing applied?

Manufacturing stage

During which stage is target costing applied

Planning and design stage

On what does Kaizen costing focus?

Production processe

What is the aim of Kaizen costing?

To reduce costs of processes by a pre-specified amount

Process improvements through small incremental amounts rather that through large innovations

Kaizen costing

A collection of activities that are linked together in a co-ordinated manner to achieve a specific objective

Business process

Which costs are nog accumulated as a seperate cost object?

Quality

Environmental cost management:

  • Visible vs. Hidden
  • private vs. Social

The linked set of value-creating activities from supplier to customer

Value chain

What do critics claim that traditional accounting does wrong in terms of the value chain

It starts to late and finishes to soon

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