Anvari.Net Cost Management

YEAR

2011

VOLUME

FOUR

Decision support

Management and leadership consulting Cost benefit analysis

performance metric

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Subject:

Cost Management

At its conclusion, learners can expect to understand how to:

· Calculate a cost performance index (CPI)

· Calculate a schedule performance index (SPI)

· Calculate estimated costs at completion (EAC), using the most appropriate method

· Allocate cost to products, processes, and activities

· Develop process improvement initiatives

Content

"Cost Management" places basic cost management tools within the grasp of nearly any project manager. Each skill sequence builds on the one before. Using clear explanations and providing ample practice, this course makes learning when and how to use cost management calculations and indices as uncomplicated as possible.

The supplemental course materials are designed for the entire series. The glossary extends beyond the terms used in this module. New terms in the text are linked to the glossary, or users can go to the glossary to look up terms by scrolling or using the alphabetical index. The resources section is a treasure trove of brief articles on a variety of management topics. Overall, for managers new to cost management methodologies, this course should prove useful, regardless of the number of zeroes and commas in their project budgets.

Value

If these cost management tools aren't already in your project management toolkit, this course is an efficient and cost-effective way to acquire them. The time and money spent are likely to be repaid many times over the first time you apply these methods to a real-life project.

	Cost Management
1	Introduction to Cost Management
2	Basic Cost Management Concepts
3	Cost Behavior
4	Activity-Based Costing
5	Product and Service Costing: Job-Order System
6	Product and Service Costing: A Process Systems Approach
7	Allocating Costs of Support Departments & Joint Products
8	Budgeting for Planning and Control
9	Standard Costing: A Functional-Based Control Approach
10	Decentralization: Responsibility Accounting
11	Strategic Cost Management
12	Activity-Based Management
13	The Balanced Scorecard
14	Quality and Environmental Cost Management
15	Productivity Measure and Control
16	Lean Accounting
17	Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
18	Activity Resource Usage Model
19	Pricing and Profitability Analysis
20	Capital Investment
21	Inventory Management: Economic Order Quantity

	Cost Benefit Analysis
1	Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis
2	Conceptual Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis
3	Microeconomic Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis
4	Valuing Benefits and Costs in Primary Markets
5	Valuing Benefits and Costs in Secondary Markets
6	Discounting Benefits and Costs in Future Time Periods
7	Dealing with Uncertainty: Expected Values, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Value of Information
8	Option Price and Option Value
9	Existence Value
10	The Social Discount Rate
11	Predicting and Monetizing Impacts
12	Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Experiments and Quasi Experiments
13	Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation of Demand Curves
14	Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Indirect Market Methods
15	Contingent Valuation: Using Surveys to Elicit Information about Costs and Benefits
16	Shadow Prices from Secondary Sources
17	Shadow Prices: Applications to Developing Countries
18	Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
19	Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis
20	How Accurate Is CBA?