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Course Outline
1. Basic Cost Concepts: Cost terms, cost drivers, Cost pools and cost objects: Classification of Costs; Cost Behaviour
2. Product/service costing: Job costing and process costing; costing of services; tracing direct costs to products and allocating indirect costs; Different method of cost allocation; introduction to activity based costing
3. Cost analysis for decision making: decisions on make or buy, closing down unprofitable divisions or product line, alternative sourcing, pricing decision under different conditions, etc.
4. Budgeting and Budgetary Control: Types of Budgets; Preparation of Master Budget; Role of Standards in Budget preparation; Impact of Financial policies on budgets; Preparation of Cash Budget; Preparation of pro-forma financial statements
5. Management Control Systems: Variance Analysis; Introduction to Responsibility accounting and performance measurement: transfer pricing, balanced scorecard.
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Dear Students, As you would be aware, the 1st session in Management Accounting is scheduled on 16th November. I look forward to meeting you all then.
Meanwhile, I would like you all to read the topics mentioned in the attached file and understand the principles and concepts of the topics that I plan to cover on 16th and 17th November. I am attaching a file giving the references to the required reading and also a small activity to enable you to understand the topics better.
Please read and come prepared for the session.
Regards,
Ravi Sankar
For the sessions scheduled on 26th and 27th November, 2007. To read the following :
1. Budgeting in general
2. Budgeting with particular reference to cost of production
3. Variance Analysis in general
4. Variance Analysis with particular reference to cost of production
You may use any text book. Please understand the principles and concepts and come prepared for discussions in the class.
Regards,
Ravi Sankar
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