66809 - COST MANAGEMENT

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The goal of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of cost as a firm’s competitive key success factor. Specifically this course will provide students with the frameworks and techniques for: - analysing business cost and cost drivers; - improving cost performance and to contain and reduce cost inefficiency; - using cost models for design and improve a company business model performance; - implementing a cost management system.

Contenuti

– Cost management: the framework
– Activity and process cost analysis techniques
- Cost driver analysis
– Cost prevention: life cycle cost, value analysis and target costing techniques
– Supply chain cost management
– Cost management for business modeling

Testi/Bibliografia

To be announced

Metodi didattici

Lectures and case study analysis

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written test and project work (project work only for class attending students)

18-23: the student has sufficient preparation and analytical skills, spread however, over just few topics taught in the course, the overall jargon is correct

24-27: the student shows and adequate preparation at a technical level with some doubts over the topics. Good, yet not to articulate analytical skills with the use of a correct jargon

28-30: Great knowledge about most of the topics taught in the course, good critical and analytical skills, good usage of the specific jargon

30L: excellent and in depth knowledge of all the topics in the course, excellent critical and analytical skills, excellent usage of specific jargon

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Powerpoint class presentations, additional information about the program, cases and problems are available in the e-learning web site (https://elearning-cds.unibo.it/?lang=en )

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Riccardo Silvi