What Does a Cost Controller Do?

Cost leadership is one of the key strategies for enterprises to win in the competition. Cost control is an important management issue that all enterprises must face. No matter what kind of reforms and incentives an enterprise adopts, it cannot replace the work of strengthening cost management and reducing costs. It is one of the most important aspects of enterprise success. Effective cost control management is an issue that every enterprise must pay attention to, and grasping it can drive the overall situation.

Cost control management

Enterprises

Have you encountered the following situations in your work:

The boss's business idea keeps pace with the times and puts forward higher requirements on our cost control. I feel pressured, but I don't know where to start.

Settle overtime every month to work overtime

Accounting manager, cost accountant, financial analyst, cost analyst

The head of the budget responsibility center who needs to control costs

1. Competition is the benchmark for cost control.

All staff

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1. Cost control management is the fundamental way for enterprises to increase profits and directly serve corporate goals;

2. Cost control management is the main guarantee for enterprises to resist internal and external pressures and to survive;

3. Cost control management is

Construct comprehensive corporate cost management thinking and seek effective methods to improve corporate costs

Beyond the traditional cost control framework, analyze and control costs more macroscopically from the perspective of the company's overall operation

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After years of development in cost management in China, many achievements have been made, but at the same time there are many problems, mainly the following:

Theoretical research on cost management lags

China's theoretical research on cost management has made great progress compared with before the reform, but in

The cost control in modern enterprises is mostly based on the variable cost method. The implementation of the variable cost method should be oriented to the future and arise from strengthening the internal management of the enterprise. In theory, it is more in line with the requirements of the "matching" principle of accounting, which is conducive to strengthening cost control and performance evaluation, and motivating enterprises to pay attention to the sales link and achieve production by sales. But it also has its shortcomings:

(1) The product cost concept and external reporting requirements of financial accounting are not met.

(2) Cannot meet the needs of long-term decision-making.