CA Final - SCM & PE
Strategic Cost Management and Performance Evaluation is Paper5 of the CA Final Course and it's quite a mind-boggling subject per se, to be dealt with.
Strategic Cost Management is commonly known as SCM and it is an eclectic cost management technique that endeavours to diminish the total costs whilst ameliorating the overall financial health of a business enterprise. It is an intricate procedure, that a CA is quite well versed with, wherein he successfully amalgamates costs forecasting with the decision-making process in his organization, in order to help the management make superior, sound judgments. By studying SCM, a qualified CA is able to gauge and manage all the costs that he then tries to cut down, thereby aligning the curtailed costs with the business strategies of an enterprise. In today's highly competitive and dynamic business world, strategic financial management is extremely crucial and of paramount importance. A qualified CA indisputably holds mastery over this subject and he therefore furnishes a better understanding of the detailed cost structure wherein a CA uses the expansive cost information for governing the strategic management process such as in domains like construction, communication, administration and control in a business enterprise and this greatly helps in ameliorating the overall financial position of a company.
A CA does so by establishing a comprehensive and an exhaustive budget wherein he takes into account all the innumerable costs of operations, processes and products etc. and he then measures the resulting variance along with the profit generated.