How to understand the cost management of the construction industry?

1. To correctly understand the cost management of construction enterprises and information-based construction industry, we should understand it from three characteristics: "all staff", "process" and "real-time". "all staff" The cost management of the construction industry covers the management departments of construction enterprises and various management positions of construction projects in space. The construction project cost is managed by the construction project department, and the enterprise still bears the responsibility of organizing, guiding and supervising the manufacturing cost management of the construction project department. At the same time, enterprises need to constantly supervise and improve the construction project cost management system, and use technology, information and resources to support the project construction cost reduction. At the same time, "all employees" has another meaning. Every activity of the project construction will involve the project cost, and the work of every management post is related to the cost management and bears the cost responsibility. In other words, cost is the collection of economic achievements obtained by enterprise management according to accounting methods, and it is the result of the work of all employees, not the exclusive work of accounting departments. "process" The object of construction project cost control is the direct consumption and its related processes. Its control contents include cost plan, implementation of cost plan, cost supervision, cost accounting and cost assessment. Because every activity of cost management should be included in target management and follow PDCA cycle, this determines the "process" of cost management. "Real-time". No feedback, no management. There will be many modifications and changes in the actual project, which will cause changes in the project cost control mode. Therefore, cost management is required to feedback various specific problems in the construction process in real time. Feedback must be based on the real-time collection of cost information, and the information must be processed and adjusted in real time to respond, so real-time is the most important feature of cost management. "Informatization drives industrialization" is an important national policy. China combines industrialization with informatization, trying not to repeat the mode that developed countries first realize industrialization and then enter the informatization stage, transforming and upgrading traditional industries with information technology, and realizing the leap-forward development of productivity by taking advantage of latecomers. In this context, traditional construction enterprises should seize the opportunity, respond to the wave of informationization, and achieve leap-forward development by means of "cement+mouse". Informatization should be divided into three levels from the goal: 1 to improve efficiency. That is, the routine and fixed work is handed over to the information system for processing, such as finding the required objects from a large number of files or records in a very short time. Information systems support high efficiency by automating daily processing. 2. Improve effectiveness. Effectiveness refers to doing the right thing or doing what should be done to achieve important business results. The information system provides a complete data acquisition scheme and information processing logic to ensure the effectiveness of the work. 3. Promote enterprise reengineering. That is, using information technology to change the mode of operation. Achieving this goal means changing the nature of existing services, or completely changing the management mode of functional departments and even the whole enterprise. Therefore, it can be said that enterprise informatization is a process of combining advanced management concepts with computer technology, effectively collecting and processing information related to enterprise management, integrating business process reengineering, and realizing the goal of maximizing benefits. Second, the relationship between cost management and informatization of construction enterprises 1. Project cost management of construction enterprises is the breakthrough point of informatization. Construction enterprises are project-oriented enterprises, with project management as the carrier and cost management as the core. The project cost reflects the economic effect of the construction activities of the construction unit. Through the calculation, assessment and analysis of the project cost, the construction and management level of the construction unit can be reflected. Therefore, project cost management is an important part of enterprise management. Engineering project is the basic information management unit of construction enterprises, and the cost management of engineering projects provides cost information for the decision-making of construction production and operation of enterprises through a series of scientific management work such as cost prediction, planning, control, accounting, analysis and assessment. By reflecting the problems existing in the construction and management work, the purpose of continuously reducing the project cost, improving the market competitiveness of enterprises and improving economic benefits can be achieved. However, in the process of project implementation, unexpected engineering changes and other circumstances make cost control very difficult. These inevitable changes determine that the cost must be a dynamic process, and the cost must be dynamically controlled in the construction process. To realize dynamic control, a very important factor lies in the smoothness of information. If the cost difference cannot be fed back to the control subject in time, there is no way to control the cost. If the calculation, collection and arrangement of large-scale data are completed only by manpower, the efficiency will be very low and it is almost impossible to control effectively. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out informatization, so that the information between functional departments can be interconnected, network resources can be highly enjoyed and processed in time, and the lagging situation of information asymmetry caused by the time difference of business operation can be fundamentally changed, so as to realize dynamic and procedural project cost control management, and then realize dynamic control of cost management. Therefore, project cost management is the best entry point of informatization.