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CHAPTER 1

Introduction to Strategic Cost


Management Overview of Cost
Management and Strategy

Week 1
• What is Cost ?
• An amount that has to be paid or given up in order to
gain something . In business , cost is usually a
monetary valuation of the ff:
• Effort
• material
• resources
• time and utilities consumed
• risk incurred
• opportunity forgone in production and delivery of good or
services .

All expenses are costs , but not all cost are expenses .

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