Professional Documents
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Trimester 1 2022/2023
Learning Objectives:
After study this topic, students should be able to:
1. Differentiate between Financial Accounting & Managerial Accounting.
2. Identify key concepts in Managerial Accounting.
3. Understand the roles of Managerial Accounting.
4. Classify costs into: Costs for stock valuation and profit measurement, Costs for
decision making and planning and Costs for control.
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Information estimation/approximations,
flexible
Scope Highly aggregated; May be more detailed; less
or summarised summarised
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Activity level
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Variable costs
Vary in direct proportion to the volume of activity –
Activitywill
doubling the level of activity level
double the total
variable cost.
Total variable costs are linear and unit variable cost
is constant.
E.g. sales commissions, raw materials, petrol
Graph:
Total Variable Cost Unit Variable Cost
(RM) (RM)
5,000
10
4,000
3,000
2,000
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Level of activity
Semi-variable costs
Include both a fixed and a variable component
These are costs that change with production, but
not in direct proportion to the volume.
E.g. telephone charge which has a fixed charge for
line rental of say RM68 per month and a variable
charge per minute for call charges of say RM0.30
per minute.
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TUTORIAL QUESTIONS
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9. Classify each cost item by placing an “X” mark under the appropriate cost
category.
No. Cost Item Direct Direct Manufacturing Non-
Materials Labour Overhead Manufacturing
Overhead
1. Rent on factory
machinery
2. Insurance on
manufacturing building
3. Raw materials
4. Manufacturing utilities
5. Office supplies
6. Wages for workers
7. Depreciation on office
equipment
8. Manufacturing
supervisor’s salary
9. Advertising cost
10. Sales commissions
11. Depreciation on
manufacturing building
12. Lubricant for factory
machinery
13. Maintenance of
machinery
14. Cleaning service for
office
15. Depreciation for office
photocopying machine
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