This article aims to describe the application of management accounting in the blue ocean strategy. Blue ocean strategy is an alternative way for success. It offers a new approach that companies have to create value innovation to satisfy customers. It does not compete in cost efficiency, but it tries to open a new demand by seeing the customer's potential needs. To implement this new approach, management needs appropriate information for making decision. Management accounting tools like target costing and life-cycle costing tries to provide information for a better quality of decision making in the blue ocean strategy. Target costing will serve information for new product's pricing and functionality and life-cycle costing tries to analyze profitability of new product during its life-cycle. By using this tools, the blue ocean strategy can be implemented in the right track.
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