Reviewer - AC 7

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Reviewer – Strategic Cost Management

Week 1 Week 3
Strategic Cost Management – involves the Accounting – recording
development of cost management,
Budgeting – basis from historical data
information to facilitate the principle
management function which is strategic Capital Budgeting – long range planning
management.
Master Budget – short range planning
Strategic management –
development of a sustainable competitive Kinds of Budgets:
position. 1. Master Budget – overall financial
Users of Cost Management Information: and operating plan for a period
(quarterly or annual); comprehensive
 Business Firms budget for a specific period
 Governmental Units 2. Capital Budget – long range
 Not-for-Profit Organization budgets for major expenditures or
addition of new product lines
Uses of Cost Management Information: 3. Responsibility Budget – segments
1. Strategic Management of the master budget relating to the
2. Planning and Decision-making aspect of the business that is the
3. Management and Operational responsibility of a particular manager
Control are often prepared monthly
4. Reportorial and Compliance to Legal 4. Cash Budget – may be prepared on
Requirements a day-to-day or monthly basis
5. Continuous Budget – budgets are
Management Accountants – accounting constantly reviewed and updated
professionals who develop and analyze cost
management information and other Steps in Developing a Master Budget
accounting information. They are concerned 1. Establish goals and long-range plans
with providing information to the people 2. Prepare a sales forecast
inside an organization who direct and 3. Estimate the COGS and OE
control the operations. 4. Determine the effect on A, L, E
Three important guidelines to help 5. Projected IS, BS, and CFS
management accountants provide the most Master Budget
value:
Budget – detailed plan, expressed in
1. Employ a cost-benefit approach quantitative terms, about business operations
2. Recognize behavioral as well as for a specific period.
technical considerations
3. Use appropriate cost concepts for Master Budget – can also be called as
different purpose proforma budget, planning budget, forecast
budget, master profit plan
Week 2
- It is a comprehensive budget that
Strategic Focus of Cost Management consolidates the overall plan of the
- A competitive firm incorporates the organization for a specific period.
emerging and expected change in the Master Budget is mainly composed of:
contemporary environment of
business into its business planning 1. Operating Budget:
and practices. - Sales Budget
- Guided by strategic or long-term - Production Budget
thinking  DM budget
- Should focus not on the  DL budget
measurement per – but on the  OH budget
identification of those measures that - Budgeted COGS
are critical to the firm’s success. - Budgeted OPEX
- Budgeted NI
(Dami ng week 2 tinamad na ako)
- Budgeted IS (Expected beg. FG)
TOTAL
2. Financial Budget: Budgeted Materials Purchases
- Cash budget
Budgeted prod
- Budgeted BS
- Budgeted CFS x qty. of materials req./unit of product
- Capital Expenditure budget
- WC Budget Total materials to be used

Fixed budget – a budget prepared for a one + Desired End. FG


level of activity within a certain period. (Expected beg. FG)
Flexible budget – a budget prepared for TOTAL
different levels of activity within a certain
period. Cash Budgets

Continuous budget – a 12-month budget Cash balance, beg.


that rolls forward one month as the current + Receipts
moth is completed.
Total cash available
Zero-based budgeting – a method of
budgeting in which managers are required to (Disbursements)
justify all costs as if the programs involved Excess (deficiency) of cash avail.
were being proposed for the first time.
+ Financing, (if applicable)
Imposed budgeting – a process wherein
budgets are prepared by top management Cash balance, end.
with little or no inputs from operating
personnel.
Participatory budget – a process wherein
budgets are developed through joint decision
by top management and operating personnel.
Budget committee – a group of key
management person responsible for over-all
policy matters relating to the budget
program and for coordinating the budget
preparation.
Budget-Manual – this describes how a
budget is prepared includes a planning
calendar and distribution instructions for all
budget schedules.

Computational Formats
Budgeted Production
Budgeted sales
+ Desired end. FG
(Expected beg. FG)
TOTAL
Budgeted Merchandise Purchases
Budgeted Sales
+ Desired end. FG

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