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Economics and business administration (Academic Year 2020/2021) - Business management

Management accounting



Video professors: Ajay Kumar Takiar - Senior Iecturer ACCA Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)

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Lesson n. 1: Accounting for management and source of data
   Distinguish between 'data' and 'information'

   Identify and explain the attributes of good information

   Outline the managerial processes of planning, decision making and control

   Describe the purpose and role of cost and management accounting within an organisation

   Compare and contrast financial accounting with cost and management accounting

   Describe sources of information from within and outside the organisation

   Describe the impact of the general economic environment on costs/revenues

   Explain sampling techniques
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Lesson n. 2: Cost classification
   Cost units, cost objects and responsibility centres

   Classification of cost

   Production and non production cost
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Lesson n. 3: Accounting for material
   Inventory control concept

   Storage of raw material and its documentation

   Stock take

   Inventory control levels

   Economic order quantity

   Inventory valuation
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Lesson n. 4: Accounting for labour
   Direct and indirect labour

   Remuneration methods

   Labour turnover

   Labour ratios

   Accounting for labour cost and its documentation
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Lesson n. 5: Accounting for overheads
   Overheads

   Absorption costing: introduction

   Allocation & Apportionment

   Absorption

   Over and under absorption
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Lesson n. 6: Absorption and marginal costing
   Contribution

   Marginal cost and marginal costing

   Marginal costing and its uses

   Calculation of profit under AC & MC

   Reconciliation of profit
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Lesson n. 7: Job, batch and service costing
   Characteristics of job and batch costing

   Use of job or batch costing would be appropriate

   Cost records and accounts

   Situations where the use of service/operation costing is appropriate

   Carry out service cost analysis in simple service industry situations
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Lesson n. 8: Process costing
   Characteristics of process costing

   Treatment of losses

   Valuation of closing work in progress

   Valuing opening work in progress
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Lesson n. 9: Joint products by-products and alternative costing principles
   Distinguish between by-products and joint products

   Value by-products and joint products at the point of separation

   Accounting for by products

   Activity based costing

   Total quality management

   Life cycle costing

   Target costing
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Lesson n. 10: Statistical technique. Part one
   Correlation

   The correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination

   Lines of best fit

   Least squares method of linear regression analysis
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Lesson n. 11: Statistical technique. Part two
   The components of time series

   Finding the trend

   Finding the seasonal variations

   Index numbers

   Composite indices
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Lesson n. 12: Budgeting
   The planning and control cycle

   Objectives of budget

   Responsibility centres & controllable costs

   Fixed and flexible budgets
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Lesson n. 13: The budgetary process
   The administrative process

   Stages in budgetary process

   Principal budget factor

   Functional Budgets

   Cash budgets

   Master budgets
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Lesson n. 14: Making budgets work
   Motivation in performance management

   Factors influencing motivation

   The impact of targets upon motivation

   Managerial incentive schemes

   Approaches to budget preparation
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Lesson n. 15: Capital expenditure & principles of relevant costing
   Importance of capital investment planning and control

   Define and distinguish between capital and revenue expenditure

   Outline the issues to consider and the steps involved in the preparation of a capital expenditure budget

   Relevant costing and its application
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Lesson n. 16: Methods of project appraisal
   Methods of capital appraisal

   Simple payback

   Time value of money

   Discounted cash flow
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Lesson n. 17: Standard costing. Part one
   Purpose and principles

   Standard cost per unit

   Variances

   Direct material cost variances

   Labour cost variances
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Lesson n. 18: Standard costing. Part two
   Variances analysis exercise

   Operating statements

   Deriving actual data from variances and standard cost

   The reasons for cost variances

   The significance of cost variance
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Lesson n. 19: Performance measurement
   Performance measurement and mission statements

   Goals and objectives

   Performance measures

   Economy, efficiency and effectiveness

   Measuring profitability and productivity

   Performance measures based on the statement of financial position

   The balanced scorecard

   External conditions
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Lesson n. 20: Applications of performance measurement
   Performance measures for manufacturing businesses

   Performance measures for contract and process costing environments

   Performance measures for services

   Management performance measures

   Benchmarking

   Cost control and cost reduction

   Value analysis
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