Cost Management


	Strategic cost management
	The term cost refers to the money you spend to secure the resources that you need - people, premises, tools for the job. Managing costs well means spending no more than necessary. But how do you know how well you are doing and whether your management of costs is moving you forward strategically?
	You know the costs of the resources (or inputs) purchased. You need to know how your costs relate to your outputs (the products and services you deliver). You can then compare the costs of each with the income received. If you are spending more than you are receiving then something isn’t right. Your prices might be too low, or there might be a problem with the way you are working or how you are organised.
	You will also want to know how strategic choices are likely to shape your costs. This needs those involved to have a shared and deep understanding of cost behaviour and an ability to apply that knowledge whenever planning for the future.

	We will help you to:

		Identify how your products, services and customers consume cost, which deliver a financial return, which do not and why;
		Establish the good costs, those involved in activities that create value, and those that are associated with waste and a loss of value;
		Define the key drivers of cost across your organisation (central services and business units) and how best to exercise control;
		Create budgetary structures as well as planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting practices that will lift the level of insight and cost consciousness needed to underpin your decision making;
		Develop the cases for and implement necessary changes that will lift your financial return from your products and services and allow you to plan fully informed of the impact upon cost and income.

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