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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Advanced Costing Optimisation and Pricing Strategies

SMP810 · Strategic Financial Management — Week 2 of 16

CourseSMP810
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Advanced Costing Optimisation and Pricing Strategies

  1. Value-chain cost analysis
  2. Dynamic and value-based pricing models
  3. Benchmarking costing efficiency
  4. Strategic pricing policy formulation
  5. CIMA P2 Pricing strategies
  6. #24 Strategic Cost Management | Cost Analysis | Strategic Sourcing

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Apply tools of costing design and costing systems to an organisation.
  • 1.3 Recommend improvements to the costing and pricing systems of an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: apply tools of costing design and costing systems to an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • CIMA P2 Pricing strategies · YouTube · OpenTuition · 19 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • An Empirical Study of Activity-Based Systems in Ireland · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
  • The Sourcing Playbook (UK Government Commercial Function) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 78 pages · for registered students
  • Principles of Marketing, ch. 12: Pricing Products and Services · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 415–446 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Cost Management and Systems Design
  • Week 2: Advanced Costing Optimisation and Pricing Strategies
  • Week 3: Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
  • Week 4: Corporate Portfolio Evaluation and Strategic Decision-Making
  • Week 5: Master Budget Architecture and Target Setting
  • Week 6: Critical Perspectives on Budgetary Control
  • Week 7: Strategic Working Capital and Funding Appraisals
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Long-Term Capital Structure and Funding Selection
  • Week 10: Capital Investment Appraisal Under Uncertainty
  • Week 11: Strategic Investment Governance and Qualitative Appraisals
  • Week 12: Applying Strategic Financial Management in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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