1What is the difference between traditional costing and target costing?
2What is a cost gap?
The difference between the current cost and the target cost
3How can you close a cost gap
4How do we NOT close a cost gap
5What is functional analysis
Considers the functionality of the item and which functions are important or how to deliver more, cost effectively
6What are the benefits of target costing
7What is lifecycle costing
Considers the accumulation of costs and revenues over the lifetime of a product to assess its overall profitability
8How do you maximise return over the product lifecycle
9What are the lifecycle cost types
10What is value analysis / Value engineering
11What is the difference between value analysis and value engineering
12What are the types of value
13What is porters value chain
Porter suggested improving the different areas of the business would increase the margin

14In porter value chain what are the primary activities
15In porter value chain what are the secondary activities
16In each of porters value chain areas how can they contribute to the competitve advantage of the business