MGT402 : Cost & Management Accounting

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

This course focuses on the prerequisite and use of management accounting information for planning, control and decision making. The course encourages an understanding of the management accounting function within an organization by taking a business value sequence perspective. The process of budgeting (operational and financial) and standards as an aid to management in planning and controlling business activities is explored. It will help in analyzing cost behavior, absorption and variable costing, a study of the principles of job and process costing systems, the application of activity based costing, as well as other facets of management accounting which support decision making.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Explain the role of management accounting within an organization
  • Describe costs by classifications and purpose
  • Identify appropriate material, labor and expense costs
  • Application of principles of costing in straightforward scenarios
  • State the cost factors affecting production and pricing decisions


Course Calendar

1 Introduction
2 Cost Accounting Terms
3 Financial Statements- 1
4 Financial Statements- 2
5 Problems in preparation of Financial Statements
6 Problems in preparation of Financial Statements Contd. & Inventory Management
7 Inventory maintenance & Costing
8 Costing & Control Over Material
9 Control Over Material & EOQ
Assignment 1
10 Accounting For Losses, Distortions & Source Documents Of Material
11 Labor
12 Labor: Payroll & Incentives
13 Labor: Piece Rate Base Premium Plans
Quiz 1
14 Labor: Labor Turnover and Labor Efficiency Ratios
15 FOH: Allocation and Apportionment of FOH Cost
16 Factory Overhead Variances
Quiz 2
17 Factory Overhead Variances Analysis & Activity levels
18 Job Order Costing
GDB
19 Process Costing
20 Process Costing System
21 Process costing systen (Contd.)
22 Process costing system (Contd.)
23 Cost of Production Report (Opening W-I-P Inventory) Cont.
24 Cost of Production Report (Opening W-I-P Inventory)
25 Valuation of Joint products and By products
26 Joint products & By products
27 Marginal & Absorption costing
28 Marginal & Absorption Costing(Contd)
29 Cost Volume Profit Analysis
30 Break Even analysis
31 Break Even analysis- Margin of safety
32 Break Even analysis- Charts and graphs
33 Budgeting and its importance
34 Production and Sales budget
Quiz 3
35 Production Cost Budget
36 Direct Labour and FOH Budget
37 Operating Expense Budget and Budgeted income Statement
38 Cash Budget
39 Complex Cash and Flexible budget
40 Zero based budgeting
41 Decision making and costing
42 Decision Making
43 Decision Making..
44 Decision Making Contd.
45 Decision Making.