Includes bibliographical references

Unit I. Introduction to strategic cost management -- Chapter 1. Overview of cost management and strategy -- Chapter 2. The professional environment of cost management -- Chapter 3. Contemporary business environment and strategy focus of cost management -- Chapter 4. Developing a competitive strategy and contemporary cost management techniques -- Unit II. Strategic cost management concepts and techniques for planning and control -- Chapter 5. Strategy and the master budget -- Chapter 6. Organizational innovations: total quality management; just-in-time production system -- Chapter 7. The balanced scorecard: a tool to implement strategy -- Chapter 8. Cost planning for product life cycle: life-cycle costing and long-term pricing; target costing and theory of constraints -- Chapter 9. Decentralized operations and segment reporting -- Chapter 10. Variable costing: a tool for evaluating management performance -- Unit III. Cost management concepts and tools for decision making -- Chapter 11. Relevant costs for non-routine decision making -- Chapter 12. Quantitative techniques for decision making -- Chapter 13. Capital investment decision -- Unit IV. Cost management concepts and techniques for control and strategic performance measurement -- Chapter 14. Management control and strategic performance measurement; strategic investment units and transfer pricing -- Chapter 15. Financial and non-financial performance measures -- Chapter 16. Managing productivity and marketing effectiveness -- Chapter 17. Executive performance measures and compensation.