Course detail
Strategické řízení nákladů
FP-SsrnKAcad. year: 2025/2026
The course discusses the strategic approach to cost management and covers the basic concepts of cost management systems in today's business environment, including current management techniques. It focuses on the tools that companies use to implement strategy, e.g. BSC, strategy map, value chain, including the application of these tools in practice. The course discusses how cost management information can be used strategically by managers to support planning and decision making, both in the short and long term. Includes cost estimating - how cost estimating equations are used to predict costs using cost drivers. Discusses statistical and non-statistical approaches to cost estimating equations; short-term profit planning tool, volume, cost and profit analysis. Focuses on the practical use of costing to address decisions such as whether to manufacture or purchase a component of a manufactured product or service, when to add product features, and when to accept one-off orders from customers. It also examines strategically important advances in product costing, called Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the related method of Process and Activity Based Management (ABM). The course also covers the concepts of value chain and life cycle analysis as planning and cost reduction tools - Target Costing and Life Cycle Costing. Budgeting is a key planning tool - for example, Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) and the impact of activity-based costing on budgeting systems.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Entry knowledge
Knowledge gained from microeconomics, management, business economics, cost management, finance, statistics and mathematics is assumed.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Completion of the course consists of a assignment paper on a given topic in cost management in a company or organisation and a written examination of professional knowledge.
In the written exam, the student will be given three calculation examples and three questions from the theoretical part defined by lectures in the given area of strategic cost management.
The assignment paper is marked with a maximum of 25 points.The written examination is marked with a maximum of 75 points, of which the calculation example is worth a maximum of 20 points and the theoretical question a maximum of 5 points.
Completion of the course in distance form:
Completion of the course consists of a assignment paper on a given topic in cost management in a company or organisation and a written examination (online).
In the written exam, the student will be given three computational examples and three questions from the theoretical part defined by the lectures in the given area of strategic cost management.
The assignment paper is marked with a maximum of 25 points.
The written examination is marked with a maximum of 75 points, of which the calculation example is worth a maximum of 20 points and the theoretical question a maximum of 5 points.
The checking during the semester is based on the completion of the assignment paper. In the case of excused absence from seminars, teacher can, in justified cases, set a alternative condition - usually the procession of the alternative.
Aims
Students will understand the importance and need of strategic cost management for companies and non-profit organisations and their interdependence with managerial accounting and control. Students will take the theory of managerial accounting as a basis and know the strategy of cost management; they will also know the information about past phenomena, as well as the information necessary for decision-making – tools of calculation methods and decision-making tasks. Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to evaluate the results achieved, find shortcomings, propose their solutions and make justifications and decisions from the point of view of the strategic cost management.
Study aids
Strategic cost management for blended learning.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
ŠOLJAKOVÁ, L. Strategicky zaměřené manažerské účetnictví. Praha: Management Press, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7261-199-7
Recommended reading
DRURY, C. Management and Cost Accounting.Cengage Learning EMEA, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4808-9393-1.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-SRP-KS Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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