Strategic Cost Management

The thesis deals with the strategic cost management (SCM) highlighting particular approaches and their possible synergies. In the beginning, it depicts actual state of this field of research and presents areas related to the SCM including strategic management and business strategies. The main part of the thesis deals with an analysis of the existing three lines of research. A special emphasis is given to the information support of the decision-making process. In order to analyse these approaches the thesis includes selected tools that should define and characterize their requirements. Process-based line includes an examination of Activity Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) model. Product-based line is covered by a calculation of the Life Cycle Costing (LCC). Responsibility-based line aims on the two main pillars of the approach, which are the organisational structure and the performance measurement system. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model is then used as an example of a complex performance measurement system. In the end, the thesis analyses current state of the managerial accounting and it sums up contemporary trends and influences in the field. Finally, it identifies the main shift towards a managerial accounting that uses various lines of research that together form an efficient synergy that empowers the long-term growth of the company.