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2018/2019 KAN-CCMVV2604U Strategic Cost Management and Corporate Value Creation
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| Strategic Cost Management and Corporate Value Creation |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants | 60 |
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Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Last updated on 08-02-2018 | |
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| The course is targeted at second year master
students (at CBS) from one of the following specializations: FIR,
ASC, FSM, AEF, and FIN.
VERY IMPORTANT: Students are expected to be familiar with Activity-Based costing models and discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation techniques. Students who have little or no knowledge of these models will have a VERY hard time keeping up in this course and are generally not recommended to apply for it. Moreover, active student participation is expected during classes. This is NOT a lecture-based class. This is a case-based class where the learning takes place through interactive case solving during classes. |
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Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are increasingly expected to act as strategic business partners who take an active part in strategy development alongside executive management. Consequently, the required capabilities of the CFO and the finance and accounting staff are expanding beyond the traditional domains of bookkeeping and cost controlling towards more future-oriented analysis of the business and financial as well as non-financial drivers of shareholder value.
During this course students get to work with cost, profit and value creation tools and techniques which can help provide a fact-based financial foundation for strategic decision making. The pivotal element throughout the course is to establish transparency on the financial impact of the firm’s strategic options in terms of current and future profitability. This is achieved through quantitative analyses of costs, profitability and value creation potential across the firm’s activities and business environment. The firm’s strategic options can hereby be linked to corporate value and the amount of value created to shareholders – a key objective in many commercial enterprises and therefore a key area of interest to many boards of directors. Hence, the course combines the strategic cost management techniques of accounting, with valuation and the value-based management framework.
The course is structured around two main building blocks and the key themes are as follows:
Introduction: The Strategic CFO as a financial business partner to the organization
Strategic Cost Management
Corporate value creation
Wrap-up: What makes a successful financial business partner?
The frameworks, tools and techniques presented and discussed in this course are relevant both to students who envision a career in finance & accounting departments and to students with an ambition of pursuing a career in management consulting.
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| The course is conducted in 3-hour lecture form, albeit with extensive use of cases. Cases are carefully selected to provide students the opportunity to actively work with “number-crunching” for costing, profitability and valuation analyses. Hence, during case discussions there will be an emphasis on understanding how the quantitative elements in terms of revenues, costs and financial value creation potential contribute to inform strategic decisions. The lectures are mainly conducted by academic staff. However, a number of external guest speakers from management consulting and finance/accounting departments have been invited to provide a practice-oriented perspective on the issues discussed in class. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course literature consists of academic articles and cases. Below are a couple of examples of academic articles that will be included. More will be added when the course starts. In addition to the academic articles a case pack with the case studies that will be covered in the course will be announced prior to course start as well.
Key academic articles ( examples):
Balakrishnan, Labro, and Sivaramakrishnan (2012): “Product Costs as Decision Aids: An Analysis of Alternative Approaches” (Part 1 & 2), Accounting Horizons
Burkert & Lueg (2013): “Differences in the sophistication of Value-based Management – the role of top executives”, Management Accounting Research
Cooper, R. & R. Slagmulder (2003): “Strategic Cost Management: Expanding Scope and Boundaries”, Journal of Cost Management
Kaplan (1997): “Using ABC to Manage Customer Mix and Relationships”, Harvard Business Press
Noreen (1991): “Conditions Under Which Activity-Based Cost Systems Provide Relevant Costs”, Journal of Management Accounting Research
Porter, M.E. (1996): “What is strategy?”, Harvard Business Review
Shank & Govindarajan (1992): “Strategic Cost Management: The Value Chain Perspective”, Journal of Management Accounting Research
Shank, J.V. & V. Govindarajan (1998): “Making Strategy Explicit in Cost Analysis: A Case Study”, MIT Sloan Mgmt Review
The following book can be recommended as supplementary reading (not mandatory) to establish a thorough understanding of the Value-Based Management framework:
Copeland, Goedhart & Wessels (2010): “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies”, Fifth Edition, McKinsey & Co.
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