Wheels of Strategic Cost Management

A set of strategic cost-management techniques that function together to support the organization's goals and activities are called a strategic cost-management system. The design, implementation and application of new forms of cost management Wheels represent a great challenge for management accountants. With ongoing pressures to reduce cost, improve revenue and satisfy customer, the need for cost management Wheels is clear. What isn't so clear is which instrument to use, when, why, and how one cost management instrument interfaces with others.There are many Wheels for cost management such as: 1) Activity Based Costing 2) Target Costing Management 3) life Cycle Costing 4) Benchmarking etc. Keeping in view of these important considerations, activity based costing and target costing are explain as integrated Wheels for strategic cost management in this book.