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(c) Features of service costing and costing and pricing of services
Unit 8: Process Costing
(a) Nature of process costing
(b) Accounting for normal losses, abnormal losses and abnormal gains
(c) Valuation of output from a process
(d) Valuation of and accounting for closing work in progress
(e) Valuation of and accounting for opening work in progress
(f) Joint products and by products
Unit 9: Information for Decision Making
(a) Cost Volume Profit analysis
(b) Relevant costs for decision making
(c) Short term decisions: single limiting factor, make or buy, shut down decisions
(d) Pricing decisions
Unit 10: Budgeting and Budgetary Control
(a) Objectives of budgeting and budgetary control
(b) The planning and control cycle
(c) Administration of the budgetary process
(d) Preparing functional budgets and the cash budgets
(e) Participation in budgeting
(f) Alternative approaches to budgeting
(g) Preparing flexible budgets
Unit 11: Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
(a) Objective of standard costing and variance analysis
(b) Types of standards and their implications on employee motivation
(c) Setting standards
(d) Variance analysis for costs
(e) Variance analysis for sales
(f) Preparing operating statements
Unit 12: Control and performance measurement
(a) Nature of Management Control
(b) Measuring performance using quantitative performance measures
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Assessment:
Full Time:
One Test 10%
Mid semester Examination 20%
End of Semester Examination 70%
Total 100%
Part Time:
One Test 10%
Mid semester Examination 20%
End of Semester Examination 70%
Total 100%
Distance Learning
One Assignment/ Project 10%
One Test 20%
End of Semester Examination 70%
Total 100%
Recommended Texts
1. AFIN 210 – Cost and Management Accounting: Course Module
2. Lucey T: Cost Accounting: DPP (7th) edition.
3. ZICA T2 Costing Accounting Study Text, BPP, London
4. ZICA DA 5; Cost Accounting Study Text, BPP, London
5. ACCA paper MA (FMA), F2: Management Accounting, BPP, London
6. Drury C: Management and Cost Accounting (7th ) edition
7. Lucey T: Management Accounting (5th) edition [special edition]
8. Proctor R: Managerial Accounting for business decisions