Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 48
Course objectives:
The objectives of this course are to provide extensive knowledge of managerial accounting tools and techniques required for strategic planning and controlling processes.
Course description:
This course aims to provide exposure on managerial planning and control. It helps to analyze
managerial accounting information for control. It covers cost management, income under marginal and absorption costing, cost volume profit analysis, profit planning and performance control. It also deals with technical and behavioral aspects of management accounting and control system.
Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy
- Lecture
- Assignments
- Discussion & Presentation
- Project & case work
- Library & Internet
Marking Scheme
- Internal
- Assignment
- Presentation
- Project work
- Mid Term Exam
- Pre Board Exam - External
- Board Exam
Course Details:
Unit 1: Concept of Management Accounting LH 3
- Concept, objectives, characteristics, functions and limitations of management accounting
- Changing role of management accounting in an organization
- Controllership functions and responsibility
Unit 2: Cost Management and Reporting LH 8
- Concept, classification and allocation of costs
- Segregation of mixed cost: graphical presentation, two point method, regression method, Co-efficient of determination, standard error of estimates, standard error of regression co-
efficient, confidence interval and student “t” test
- Reporting and interpretation of net income under different situations for internal and
external use
- Reconciliation of net income
Unit 3: Cost-Volume-Profit-Analysis LH 8
- Concept, objectives, assumptions, limitations of cost-volume-profit-analysis
- Application of cost-volume-profit for breakeven analysis and profit planning including
multiple products with interpretation
- CVP analysis under the condition of uncertainty
- Cost-volume-profit analysis under resource constraints
- Allocation of single resource constraint
- Allocation of multiple resource constraints using linear programming model
Unit 4: Activity Based Costing LH 5
- Concepts, need, objectives and limitations of ABC
- Limitations of traditional costing system
- Procedures of absorption of overhead under ABC
- Ascertainment of costs and profit under Traditional and ABC method
- Activity based profitability analysis
- Activity Based Management
Unit 5: Profit Planning LH 11
- Concepts, need, importance and objectives of budgeting
- Budgeting for profit planning: preparation of master budgets for manufacturing and
non-manufacturing firms
- Zero-base budgeting
Unit 6: Controlling of Performance LH8
- Concept of standard cost and standard costing
- Difference between standard cost and estimated cost
- Preliminaries to establishment of standard costing
- Objectives, importance and limitations of standard costing
- Standard costing and budgetary control
- Computation and interpretation: Material, Labour and Revenue (based on turnover) variances
- Flexible budgets: concept, features and significance. Difference between flexible and static budget
- Overhead cost control: variable and fixed overhead variances and interpretation
Unit 7: Management Accounting and Control System LH 5
- Concept of technical considerations of management accounting and control system: The
value chain; Total life cycle costing; Target costing; Kaizen Costing; and Benchmarking
- Concept of behavioral considerations of management accounting and control system
- Concept, needs and objectives of Social Accounting, Balanced Scorecard, Forensic
Accounting, Environment Accounting and Green Accounting
Basic Books:
Atkinson, A. A., Kaplan, R. S., Matsumura, E.M., Young, S.M & Kumar, G. A. (2012). Management Accounting/6e. New Delhi: Pearson Education Pvt. Ltd.
Garrison, R. H., Noreen, E. H., & Brewer, P. C. (2012). Managerial Accounting. New Delhi: Tata Mc Graw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.
Hilton, R. W., Ramesh, G., & Madugula, J. (2011). Managerial Accounting. New Delhi: Tata Mc
Graw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.
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