Cost Management A Strategic
Emphasis, 2024 Release
by Edward Blocher
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,Table of Contents are given below
1 Cost Management and Strategy
2 Implementing Strategy The Value Chain, the Balanced Scorecard, and the Strategy Map
3 Basic Cost Management Concepts
4 Job Costing
5 Activity-Based Costing and Customer Profitability Analysis
6 Process Costing
7 Cost Allocation Departments, Joint Products, and By-Products
8 Cost Estimation
9 Short-Term Profit Planning Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
10 Strategy and the Master Budget
11 Decision Making with a Strategic Emphasis
12 Strategy and the Analysis of Capital Investments
13 Cost Planning for the Product Life Cycle Target Costing, Theory of Constraints, and
Strategic Pricing
14 Operational Performance Measurement Sales, Direct Cost Variances, and the Role of
Nonfinancial Performance Measures
15 Operational Performance Measurement Indirect Cost Variances and Resource
Capacity Management
16 Operational Performance Measurement Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales
17 The Management and Control of Quality
18 Strategic Performance Measurement Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and the Balanced
Scorecard
19 Strategic Performance Measurement Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing
20 Management Compensation, Business Analysis, and Business Valuation
,Chapter 01 - Cost Management and Strategy
Chapter 1
Cost Management and Strategy
Learning Objectives
LO 1-1 Explain the use of cost management information in each of the four functions of
management and in different types of organizations with emphasis on the strategic
management function.
LO 1-2 Explain the contemporary business environment and how it has influenced cost
management.
LO 1-3 Explain the contemporary management techniques and how they are used in cost
management to respond to the contemporary business environment.
LO 1-4 Explain the different types of competitive strategies.
LO 1-5 Describe the professional environment of the management accountant, including
professional organizations, professional certifications, and professional ethics.
LO 1-6 Understand the principles and rules of professional ethics and explain how to apply them.
New in this Edition
• Updated and revised chapter opener, replacing Target with Amazon as Walmart competitor
• Updated and revised RWF “Why Strategy? Managers Tell us”
• Updated RWF “Going Global: The Growing Importance of Worldwide Markets”
• Removed RWF “Manufacturing Jobs: Free Trade and Economic Nationalism”
• Added discussion of ESG (replacing Social, Political, and Climate Change Considerations, now
called Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Considerations) to “The Contemporary
Business Environment” section, added “ESG reporting” as a glossary term
• Removed references to economic nationalism, Brexit, etc., revised discussion of economic
uncertainty
• Updated non-RWF references and links
• Added brief discussion of the IMA Management Accounting Competency Framework, added
new exhibit with framework graphic
• Revised “Cost Management in Action” and “Comments on CMA”
• Revised RWF (and renamed) “Commodities and Cost Leadership”
• Wrote new RWF “Is Differentiation Dying?”
• Revised RWF “The Costs and Rewards of Unethical Behavior”
• Updated rankings, other time-based elements, and links in end-of-chapter material
Teaching Suggestions
Many instructors will choose to assign this chapter for the first one or two class meetings, but to spend
little, if any, class time on it. Some instructors will choose to spend more time if a more thorough
coverage of strategic positioning is desired. The main topic areas, except for strategic positioning and
professional ethics, do not require class discussion and exercise. The presentation for these other topics is
factual and informative, covering some of the basic concepts of management organization and of the
contemporary business environment. The instructor might choose to explain each of the management
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, Chapter 01 - Cost Management and Strategy
techniques identified in the chapter, and to also explain that these techniques will be covered in later
chapters.
The material on professional ethics is best introduced briefly at this time, with the reminder that
the topic will come up in each of the subsequent chapters. Going through a few problems in Chapter 1 on
ethics would provide a useful framework for them to remember in answering the ethics questions coming
up in later chapters. Remind them to not forget the IMA code of ethics and the four step process for
applying the code.
The most important point to convey in the first class session is that the course will have have a
strategic emphasis. This means the use of cost management methods and practices to help the firm
succeed at its business strategy. Strategy can be described to the students as the umbrella concept which
ties the topics of the course together⎯each topic is covered because it contributes in some way to the
success of the firm. The students should understand that each topic covered in the course will be strongly
influenced by:
1. Cost and management accounting have changed from what was once a focus on financial record
keeping to a strategic focus, one in which the management accountant becomes a business partner
with management to help the firm succeed. To be an effective business partner, the management
accountant must understand business and contemporary business issues and management techniques.
He or she must go beyond an expertise in financial matters only, but also be able to integrate
important factors in operations, marketing, and human resources to come up with solutions that are
good for the firm, not just good accounting.
2. The strategic focus is a very important theme of the course, and is forcefully present in each of the
chapters. The strategic focus is included in the text, class discussion and exercise problems. Strategic
issues may even appear as a part of an exam question.
3. The demands on management and the management accountant are increasing due to the changing
business environment and to the globalization of business. Contemporary business topics are covered
throughout the book, and global issues are touched on in each chapter.
4. As the demands on cost management change, so have the responsibilities of the management
accountant. Each topic covered in the course will include professional and ethical issues.
For a description of how the first two chapters of the text can be used in the first days of class, see
the article by Edward J. Blocher, “Teaching Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis,” Issues in
Accounting Education, February, 2009, pp 1-12.
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