[ABSTRACT]At the end of the 20th century, the great changes have taken place in global economy. High-tech and information technology developed rapidly, traditional industrial economy transformed to intellectual economy, the global competition intensified, the trend of global economy integrity was speeded up. In this situation, the company was not only faced with the internal competition but also severe external competition. How to survive in the competition has become an important issue for each company. The company has to pay attention to external markets and competitors, make great efforts to gain and maintain the competing strength to get the chance for existence and development. On the basis of the change of management environment and management concept, the reform of management---strategic management took place in the 1980’.Company management rose to strategic level, management accounting, as the supporting system for decision, must be strategic, so the strategic management accounting came into being. At present, the research on strategic management accounting abroad is in its early stage, China is introducing it and the systematic research has not been done, the strategic management accounting is rarely applied in companies. Therefore it's of great practical significance that the enhancement of the research on strategic management accounting theory and application.