Management Accounting for Decision Making

Week 1. Introduction to Management Accounting
Financial and Cost Accounting
Basic Cost Terms and Cost Flow
Costing System
Preparation of Cost Sheet
Costing in Service Industry
Preparation of Cost Sheet in Service Industry
Financial, Cost and Management Accounting Week 2. Product Costing
Methods of Product Costing
Job Costing
Customer Costing
Process Costing
Treatment of Process Losses
Joint and By-products Week 3. Cost Allocation and Activity Based Costing
Indirect Cost
Method of Indirect Cost Allocation
Misallocation of Indirect Costs
Activity-based Costing
Implementation of Activity-based Costing
Activity-based Management Week 4. Cost Analysis for Decision Making
Absorption vs. Marginal Costing
Behavior of Costs
Break-even Analysis
BEP in Multiproduct Environment
Pricing Decision
Make or Buy decision
Discontinuing product or closing down divisions
Optimal Product Mix
Operating Leverage Week 5. Budgeting
Strategic Planning and Budgets
Budgeting Process
Types of Budgets
Benefits of Budgets
Approaches to Budget Preparation
Preparation of Master Budget
Budget Slack Week 6. Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
Setting Standards
Variance Analysis: General Framework
Variable Overhead Variance
Fixed Overhead Variance
Material Mix Variance
Sales and Sales Mix Variance
Investigating Variance