SCMPE – Regular Course – English Hindi

Details

This batch is the latest batch going on at Andheri. It started on 1at May 2022 and will finish around the end of August 2022. 

In classes, theories might work, but infield in you need practicality. To give you hands-on experience with business problems, we have drafted a practical book for you. Let’s take you through some salient features of the book that you will get in with your CA Final SCMPE Regular course:

Book 1 of the Practical Book

  1. Divided into 33 chapters, this book covers all problems relevant to ICAI exams. The structure of the index is such that it facilitates easy self-study and revision.
  2. A whole bunch of theoretical parts are covered, comprising of more than 400 problems. This is sufficient for any student to practice and get a hold of the subject.
  3. This book has all numeric Case Studies. Some of these will also be repeated in Case Study and Theory Book.
  4. A homework section that has hints, assumptions and final answers is provided in these books for the added advantage of the student. This helps them in building confidence. Although any doubts in these questions are addressed by Anuj sir during the lectures, a student can approach him through telegram for round the clock assistance. Full-fledged solutions are also available on the website. Standard Time is also given for solving each question. If a student can solve within this much time, he/she is all prepared for their exams
  5. A concrete summary of all the questions will be given revision on the last day. This will be accompanied by the Grading of the questions as “1star”, “2star” and “3star” for perfect and time-bound revision.
  6. References of inter-related questions will be given for holistic learning.
  7. There is a separate chapter on questions that use two or more chapters base and that is CHAPTER 33.

Index

DECISION-MAKING TOPICS
1. Marginal & Absorption Costing
2. CVP Analysis / Decision Making
3. LPP
4. Relevant Costing
5. Theory of Constraints
6. Internal Pricing
7. External Pricing
8. Learning  Curve
9. Life cycle costing
10. Pareto Analysis
INTERNAL EVALUATION BASED TOPICS
11.    Standard Costing
12.    Strategic analysis of income statement
ACTIVITY BASED COSTING with EMA
13. Activity Based Costing
14. EMA
15. Target Costing
16. Customer Level Analysis
17. Porter Value Chain analysis
18. Direct Profitability
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT TOPICS
19.  TQM
20. TPM
21. Cellular Manufacturing
22. JIT
23. Kaizen Costing
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION & SUSTAINABILITY
24.   Balance Scorecard (Kaplan)
25.   Triple Bottom Line (John Elkington)
26.   Performance pyramid (Lynch & Cross)
27.   Performance Prism (Chris & Andy)
28.   EVA (Stern Stewart & Co)
29.   Performance Evaluation

 

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
30.   Budgetary Control
31.    Costing of the service sector
32.   Ethical Business
33.   Combination Questions

 

  1. Our second book in the practical book is a workbook. It consists of many pre-printed formats and comments. This helps us to cover maximum questions in SCMPE.
  2. There is a report card towards the end, which is added to assist you in your study plan.
  3. A revision of every question in form of videos will be given to you also

More than any other practice, solving a case study is the most imperative stepping stone for clearing the SCMPE paper. Being the second and updated version of the Case study and theory book, this case study book covers each type of business and each aspect of every business. After learning practical concepts and theoretical frameworks of each topic, students must know how to apply them to various businesses efficiently from their SCMPE Regular course.

This book is a COLOURED book for easy separation of the 12 chapters accompanied by case studies. Every case studies except those covered in RTP’s will be here.

Let’s take you through a tour of this unique coloured book:

  1. Each of the 12 chapters covers theory and related case studies
  2. Every Case Study is the book i.e. All Past, Present and Anticipated Case Studies. These will cover every type of business and each aspect of the business.
  3. The theory is cut down in simple language, for simplified understanding by the students. No complex explanation is provided, everything is reduced to important pointers.
  4. With the detailed revision, we have rectified any mistakes which were missed by the  ICAI’s study material
  5. We update the book regularly, therefore any new concept introduced by ICAI or the business sector that holds relevance in your exam is refurbished in the book.
  6. The coloured book holds an attractive and efficient Colour Scheme for the elements of the book. Questions are printed in Brown, answers in Blue, First heading in Red, Subheading in Green, Sub-Sub heading or important points in Black. This demarcates the content according to categories, making it readable and simplified for last-minute revision.
  7. To further break down the heavy content, paragraph numbers given to big case studies. When the content is divided into smaller parts, the question appears less lengthy.
  8. Master Index is given right in the beginning for easy and last-minute referrals

INDEX

Introduction to SCM

Q1-Traditional Cost Management

Q2-Strategic Cost Management

Q3-Components of SCM

Q4-Value Chain

Q5-Cost Driver Analysis

Q6-Strategic Positioning Analysis

Q7-Strategic Framework (Porters 5 Forces model)

Q8-Superior Performance & Competitive Edge

Q9-Differentiation Advantage

Q10-Low Cost Advantage

Q11-Value Chain for assessing competitive edge

Q12-Mission, Vision and Objectives

Q13-Value Shop Model

– CASE STUDIES

—–(1) – Value Chain

Retail sector – Identify activities

—–(2) – Porters 5 Forces Model

Entering new market of paper tubes

—–(3) – Porter’s Value Chain Vs Value Shop

           Concentrate on servicing instead of mfg

Modern business environment

Q1-TQM

Q2-Cost of Quality

Q3-6c’s

Q4-Deming Wheel

Q5-Criticism of TQM

Q6-Business Excellence Model

Q7-Tools to achieve excellence

Q8-EFQM

Q9-Baldrige Criteria for excellence

Q10-Thoery of Constraints

Q11-Throughput Accounting

Q12-Supply Chain Management

Q13-Development of SCM Process

Q14-Pull and Push System

Q15-Upstream & Downstream SCM

Q16-Upstream SCM

Q17-Downstream SCM

Q18-Benefits of SCM

Q19-Service Level Agreements

Q20-Outsourcing

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Business Excellence Model

         Fast fashion company

—-(2) – Supply Chain Management

          Brick & mortar vs E-Commerce

—-(3) – Supply Chain Management

          Service Sector – Travel & Tourism

—-(4) – TQM

          Banking co- Improving Quality

Lean system & innovation

Q1-Lean System

Q2-Types of Waste

Q3-Techniques of Lean System

Q4-JIT

Q5-Essentials of JIT

Q6-JIT Purchasing

Q7-JIT Production

Q8-Advantages of JIT production

Q9-Impact of JIT on Cost, waste and Process

Q10-Performance measures in JIT

Q11-Backflushing

Q12-Kaizen Costing

Q13-Benefits of Kaizen Costing

Q14-5s

Q15-Losses due to breakdown

Q16-TPM

Q17-TPM and TQM

Q18-Types of Maintenance

Q19-OEE

Q20-Cellular Manufacturing

Q21-Steps in implementing cellular mfg

Q22-Benefits of cellular Manufacturing

Q23-Six Sigma

Q24-DMAIC & DMADV

Q25-Limitations of 6 Sigma

Q26-Lean Six Sigma

Q27-Process Innovation

Q28-BPR

Q29-Principles of BPR

Q30-Stages of BPR

Q31-TAKT Time

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Kaizen Costing

Mobile company – Warranty repairs process

—-(2) – Total Productive Maintenance

Oil company – working 365 days

—-(3) – Six Sigma – DMAIC

     Bags mfg company – sales returns too high

—-(4) – Six Sigma & Cost Of Quality – DMAIC  ‘

Electronics mfg company – defective quality

—-(5) – 5 S

CA – office requires cleaning of files

—-(6) – Business Process Re-Engineering

Banking – old type vs new age banking

—-(7) – Business Process Re-Engineering

Footwear company – manufacturing vs. purchasing

Cost Management Techniques

Q1- Target Cost

Q2-Advantages of Target Costing

Q3-Main features of Target Costing

Q4-Value Analysis & Engineering

Q5-Difference between above

Q6-Impact of Target Costing on profitability

Q7-Target Costing & Traditional Costing

Q8-Companies which can use Target Costing

Q9-Life Cycle Costing

Q10-Use of Life Cycle Costing

Q11-Pareto Analysis and its applications

Q12-EMA

Q13-Classification of Environmental Cost

Q14-Techniques of Identifying & allocating EM

Q15-Types of Environmental Cost

Q16-Reasons for controlling EM

Q17-Role of EMA in decision Making

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Target Costing

Bike mfg co. – pricing strategy with challenges

—-(2) – Environmental Management Accounting.

Bangle mfg company – bad working conditions

—-(3) – Environmental Management Accounting

Oil company – controlling EMA cost

—-(4) – Life Cycle Costing

4 stages of the product

—-(5) – Value Analysis & Functional Analysis

Furniture manufacturing company – reduce cost

Costing of Specific Sector

Q1-Risk in Power Sector

Q2-Features of Power Sector

Q3-Application of Cost Mgt Techniques

Q4-Value Chain in Power Sector

Q5-Unique features of agricultural sector

Q6-Cost mgt in agricultural sector

Q7-Costing in IT Sector

Q8-4D cost opmisation model

Decision Making

Q1-Activity Based Costing in Decision Making

Q2-JIT in Decision Making

Q3-Non-financial Consideration

Q4- Ethics in Business

Q5-Outsourcing

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Ethical Business

New business about to start – be ethical

Pricing Decisions

Q1-Profit Maximixation Model

Q2-Pricing under different markets

Q3-Principles of Product Pricing

Q4-Methods of pricing

Q5-Pricing policy in recession times

Q6-Situations to sell below marginal cost

Q7-Pricing of new products

Q8-Price adjustment policies

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Competitive Advantage

Mobile phone company – pricing strategy

—-(2) – Pricing Strategy

Car company – launching new product

—-(3) – Pricing Strategy

Various types of Products

—-(4) – Pricing Strategy with Product Life Cycle

IT co – New Antivirus Software launched.

 

Performance Measurement and evaluation

Q1-Responsilbity accounting

Q2-Types of centres

Q3-Characterstics of good performance measure

Q4-Financial Measures (ROI, RI & EVA)

Q5-Adv & Disadv of financial measures

Q6- Adv & Disadv of non-financial measures

Q7-CSF & KPI

Q8-Different types of non-financial measures

Q9- Balanced Scorecard

Q10-Disadv of Balanced Scorecard

Q11-Performnace Prism

Q12-Triple Bottom Line (TBL)

Q13-The Performance Pyramid

Q14-Building Block Model

Q15-Benchmarking

Q16-Types of Benchmarking

Q17-Need for performance measure in NPO

Q18-Value for Money

Q19-Balance Scorecard for NPO

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Balance Scorecard

Car manufacturing company – falling performance

—-(2) – Performance Prism

          Logistics company – employees not satisfied

—-(3) – Value Chain & Performance Prism

          Audio systems mfg co. – Identifying activities,        giving suggestions & employees not satisfied.

—-(4) – Triple Bottom Line

Paper mfg company – lets not only report financial

—-(5) – Triple Bottom Line

Hospital – identify its activities

 

—-(6) – Triple Bottom Line

Identify its activities

—-(7) – The Building Block Model

Fast food company – new measurement system

—-(8) – Building Block With Benchmarking

     Education company – Improve performance

—-(9) – External Benchmarking

         Hospital – compare & find strength & weakness

—-(10) – Value for Money

Project of maintaining a beach

—-(11) – Value for Money

`              Hospital – Evaluating its Operations

—-(12) – Value for Money

`              Accommodation Services – Three “E”s

Transfer pricing

Q1-Characterstics of good transfer price

Q2-Basis of transfer price

Q3-Resolving conflicts

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Transfer Pricing

IT co. – faulty transfer price – 2 part pricing

—-(2) – Transfer Pricing

         Electrical product co. – what is good for dept & co.

—-(3) – Porter’s 5 Forces & Transfer Pricing

Electrical product co. – Issues in Transfer Pricing

Strategic analysis of income statement

Q1-Strategic Profitability Analysis

Q2-DPP

Q3-Customer Profitability Analysis

Q4-ABC

Q5-ABM

Q6-Value Added & Non – Value added Activities

Q7-Business Application of ABM

Q8-Benefits of ABM

Q9-ABC & ABM

Q10-Activity Based Budgeting

Q11-Activity Flexible Budgeting

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Activity Based Costing

Musical Instrument Co. – Traditional vs ABC

Budgetary Control

Q1-Budgets & Budgetary Control

Q2-Feed Back & Feed Forward Control

Q3- Budget Slack

Q4-Effect of budget difficulty on performance

Q5-Top Down Approach

Q6-Bottom Up Approach

Q7-Circumstances of Top Down Approach

Q8-Limitations of Traditional Budget

Q9-Beyond Budgeting

Q10-Steps in implementation of Beyond Budgeting

Q11-Traditional and Beyond Budgeting

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Budgetary Control.

Oil co. – type of control – feedback & feedforward

—-(2) – Budgetary Control

         Too strict controls without clear goals

—-(3) – Competitive Advantage And Control System

         Airline company – select the best strategy

—-(4) – Feedforward & Feedback Control

Consulting company – cash problem

—-(5) – Participative Budget

Mgt school – looking to involve staff in budgeting

—-(6) – Bottom Up Or Top Down

          Furniture company – sales team

—-(7) – Beyond Budgeting

          Hotel – changing how it operates

—-(8) – Beyond Budgeting

          Car Company – Suitability of Budgets

Standard Costing

Q1-Planning & Operating Variances

Q2-Activity Based Costing

Q3-Inter-relationship between Std costing & ABC

Q4-Service Sector

Q5-Factors for investigating Variance

Q6-Interlinking of variances

Q7-Interpretation of variances

Q8-Reporting

– CASE STUDIES

—-(1) – Kaizen Costing Vs Standard Costing

Automobile co.– cost reduction vs cost control

—-(2) – Value Chain, Std Costing, Balanced Scorecard

Copper rods mfg co – not buying material

—-(3) – Control Through Standard Costing System

AC Co – Control System, CSF & Std Costing

 

This is the CASE STUDY DIGEST BOOK issued by ICAI lately. I have kept the form and sequence of this book exactly same as issued by ICAI.

It is divided into 3 Sections

  1. Case Studies (16 Case Studies)
  2. Case Studies Scenario (15 Case Scenarios)
  3. Skill Assessment Problem (44 Skill Assessment Questions)

If anything has been covered in our Case Study and Theory book, it has been deleted to avoid duplication. Also, it is my job to tell you that this compilation made by ICAI was scattered everywhere in form of extra material or RTP or Past Papers. Hence, there will be many questions here that you would have seen in RTP and past papers. I have still kept them for your reference.

SECTION A – CASE STUDIES

(1) – Product Differentiation Vs Cost Leadership

        Airline Company – Company Facing a Bad Time
(2) – Performance Management System
        Accounting Firm – Evaluating The System
(3) – Std Costing with Learning Curve
        Mfg Co. – Integration Std Costing
(4) – Value Chain & Competitive Advantage
        Fabric Mfg Co. – Vertical & Forward Integration
(5) – Performance Measurement System
        Fashion Company – Looking For Non Financial Kpi
(6) – Supply Chain Management
        Furniture Co. – Shifting To E-Commerce Model
(7) – Lean System
        Restaurant –Segments Needing Improvement
(8) – Six Sigma
        Restaurant – Improvement In Every Aspect
(9) – Building Block Model
        Colleges – Evaluating Performance
(10) – Strategic Cost Management
          Coaching – Not Switching To Model SCM
(11) – Business Process Re-Engineering
          Insurance Co. – Old Type vs New Age Insurance
(12) – Business Process Re-Engineering
           Decorative Co. – Scared To Implement IT
(13) – Michael Porters 5 Forces
           Risk Advisory Co. – Assessing Competitive Env
(14) – Triple Bottom Line
           Project On Dam – Report On 3 P’s
(15) – VALUE FOR MONEY (EXAM – Nov 2020)
           Project on Taj Mahal – Maintaining it
(16) – SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (EXAM – Jan 2021)
           Co. Mfg agricultural equip – making it okay
SECTION B- CASE SCENARIOS
(1) – Performance Pyramid
        Pizza Delivery Company – Facing Issues
(2) – System
        Cable Cars Company – Implementing Kanban
(3) – Performance Measurement
        Automobile Company – Reducing Market Share
(4) – Kaizen Costing
        Automobile Co. – Shifting Cost Control to Reduction
(5) – Six Sigma
        Telecom Company – DMAIC
(6) – Productivity Increase
        Tile Mfg Co. – Cost Control To Cost Reduction
(7) – Ethical Considerations
        Chemical Company – Water Shortage
(8) – Triple Bottom Line
        Fashion Company – Sustainability In Question
(9) – 5s
        Toys Mfg Co. – Complaints Of Missing Prices
(10) – TQM / TPM / JIT
          Bike Mfg Co. – Cost of Poor Quality/ Good Quality
(11) – Building Block Model
          Ca Firm – Measure Performance from all Angles
(12) – Performance Pyramid
          Computer Co. – Measure Performance
(13) – CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR (EXAM – Nov 2020)
          Tea Co – Using Variances to Evaluate
(14) – RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING (EXAM – Jan 2021)
          Types of Responsibility Centres
(15) – PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE (RTP – Nov 21)
          Phone co. – new model about to be launched

 

SECTION C – SKILL ASSESSMENT with RATING
(1) – Decision Making ***
(2) – Building Block Model **
(3) – Cycle Efficiency
(4) – Profit Share Plan ***
(5) – Just In Time *
(6) – Pricing Policy ***
(7) – Balance Scorecard ***
(8) – Balance Scorecard ***
(9) – Evaluation of Business Divisions **
(10) – Measuring Quality ***
(11) – Quality Of Service Evaluated ***
(12) – Performance Evaluation of Charity
(13) – Just In Time **
(14) – Target Costing  ***
(15) – Just In Time **
(16) – Life Cycle Costing **
(17) – Business Plan To Cut Costs **
(18) – Theory Of Constraints **
(19) – Relevant Costing **
(20) – Budgets Vs Actual *
(21) – External Benchmarking (Also there in Theory Book – Chapter 8)
(22) – Building Block (Also there in Theory Book – Chapter 8)
(23) – Target Costing (EXAM – Nov 2018)
(24) – Relevant Costing
(25) – Theory of Constraints (EXAM – July 2021)
(26) – Relevant Costing (EXAM – July 2021)
(27) – Target Costing (EXAM – Nov 2020)
(28) – Economic Value Added (EXAM – Nov 2020)
(29) – Transfer Pricing (EXAM – Nov 2020)
(30) – OEE (EXAM – Jan 2021)
(31) – Relevant Costing (RTP – Nov 2021)
(32) – OEE & TOC (RTP – May 2021)
(33) – EMA (RTP – May 2021)
(34) – Cellular Manufacturing (RTP – May 2021)
(35) – OEE & TOC (RTP – May 2021)
(36) – Temporary Shut Down Point (RTP – May 2021)
(37) – Profit Maximising Theory (RTP – May 2021)
(38) – Transfer Pricing
(39) – Pricing Strategy
(40) – Service Level Agreement
(41) – Cost of Quality
(42) – Make or Buy
(43) – Transfer Price (Covered in Practical Book)
(44) – RI And ROI (EXAM – July 2021)

 

Without proper revision, you might not be able to bring together all concepts under one roof during exams.

Right before the exam, you need revision notes that touch briefly upon every required topic.

We provide problem wise summary notes and revision lectures for our practical book.

These videos will help you revise all the concepts in no time, reducing the time you waste on unnecessary topics.

Simply watch the videos one day before the exams and it will make you recall all your classroom hours!

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books will I get?
5 Books (read description above)
Details of Book 1
Practical Book (description given above with index)
Details of Book 2
Practical Work Book (description given above with index)
Details of Book 3
Coloured Case Study and theeory (description given above with index)
Details of Book 4
It is Case Study Digest issued by ICAI in Jan 2021
Details of Book 5
It contains summary of each question with QR code for each question revision
What is Blast from past
It is collection of past papers (will be given in soft copy format)
What are the validity and views under option 1
2 years and 2 views
What are the validity and views under option 2
6 months and 1.3 views
What are the validity and views under option 3
4 months and 1.2 views
What exactly is lifetime updates?
After you take the course, there might be new additions by ICAI. These could be NEW PAPERS, NEW RTP and NEW CASE STUDIES. We give you notes and lectures of everything through our AJ NEXT APP
Will everyone get LIfetime updates
Yes. Lifetime updates are available under all 3 options.
Course Detail
  • Course: CA FINAL
  • Course Type: Regular Course
  • Attempt: Nov 2023
  • Number of Total Hours: 300
  • Number of Lectures: 150
  • Validity: 4 months / 8 Months
  • Number of Views: 2
  • Subjects:
    Paper 5 - Strategic Cost Management and Performance Evaluation
  • Language:
    English / Hindi
WhatsApp Us