To develop an understanding of the basic concepts and applications to establish the cost associated with the production of products and provision of services and apply the same to determine prices.
To develop an understanding of cost accounting statements.
To acquire the ability to able to apply cost information for cost ascertainment, planning, control and decision making.
Contents
Overview of Cost and Management Accounting
Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting
Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting,
The users of Cost and Management accounting information, Functions of management accounting.
Role of cost accounting department in an organisation and its relation with other departments.
Installation of Costing System
Relationship of Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Management.
Cost terms and Concepts
Cost Reduction and Cost Control
Elements of Costs
Cost behavior pattern, Separating the components of fixed, variable, semi-variable and step costs.
Methods of Costing, Techniques of Costing.
Cost Accounting with use of Information Technology.
Elements of Cost and preparation of Cost Sheets
Functional classification and ascertainment of cost
Preparation of Cost Sheets for Manufacturing sector and for Service sector
Ascertainment of Cost and Cost Accounting System
Material Cost
Procurement procedures- Store procedures and documentation in respect of receipts and issue of stock, Stock verification,
Valuation of material receipts,
Inventory control
Techniques of fixing level of stocks- minimum, maximum, re-order point, safety stock, determination of optimum stock level,
Determination of Optimum Order quantity- Economic Order Quantity (EOQ),
Techniques of Inventory control- ABC Analysis, Fast, Slow moving and Non moving (FSN), High, Medium, Low (HML), Vital, Essential, Desirable (VED), Just-in-Time (JIT)- Stock taking and perpetual inventory system, use of control ratios,
Inventory Accounting
Consumption- Identification with products of cost centres, Basis for consumption entries in financial accounting, monitoring consumption.
Employee Cost
Attendance and Payroll procedures
Elements of wages- Basic pay, Dearness Allowance, Overtime, Bonus, Holiday and leave wages, Allowances and perquisites.
Employee Cost Control
Employee Turnover- Methods of calculating employee turnover, causes of employee turnover, effects of employee turnover.
Utilisation of Human Resource, Direct and indirect employee Cost, charging of employee cost, Identifying employee hours with work orders or batches or capital jobs.
Remuneration systems and incentive schemes
Time Rate System, Piece Rate System, Differential piece rate system, Calculation of wages, Effective Wages.
Direct Expenses
Direct Expenses
Nature of Direct or Chargeable expenses.
Sub-contracting- Control on material movements, Identification with the main product or service.
Overheads
Functional analysis- Factory, Administration, Selling, Distribution, Research and Development.
Behavioral analysis- Fixed, Variable and Semi- Variable.
Allocation and Apportionment of overheads using Absorption Costing Method.
Factory Overheads- Primary and secondary distribution,
Administration Overheads- Method of allocation to cost centres or products,
Selling& Distribution Overheads- Analysis and absorption of the expenses in products/ customers, impact of marketing strategies, cost effectiveness of various methods of sales promotion.
Treatment of Research and development cost in cost accounting.
Concepts of Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Recording and Accounting of Costs
Non-integrated Cost Accounting system- Ledger under non-integral system
Integrated (Cost and Financial) Accounting system- Ledgers under integral system.
Difference between the Non- integrated and Integrated Accounting system.
Reconciliation of profit as per Cost and Financial Accounts (under Non-Integrated Accounting System).
Methods of Costing
Single Output/ Unit Costing
Job Costing: Job cost cards and databases, collecting direct costs of each job, attributing overheads to jobs, Application of job costing.
Batch Costing: Determination of optimum batch quantity, Ascertainment of cost for a batch, Preparation of batch cost sheet, Treatment of spoiled and defective work.
Contract Costing
Ascertainment of cost of a contract, Progress payment, Retention money, Escalation clause, Cost plus contract, Value of work certified, Cost of Work not certified.
Determination Value of work certified, Cost of work not certified, Notional or Estimated profit from a contact.
Process / Operation Costing
Process cost recording, Process loss, Abnormal gains and losses, Equivalent units of production, Interprocess profit, Valuation of work in process.
Joint Products- Apportionment of joint costs, Methods of apportioning joint cost over joint products,
By-products- Methods of apportioning joint costs over by-products, treatment of By-product cost.
Costing of Service Sectors
Determination of Costs and Prices of services of following sectors/ Industries:
Transport, Toll roads, Hospitals, Canteen/ Restaurants, Hotels/ Lodges, Educational Institutions, Financial Institutions/ Banks, Insurance, IT sector and other services.
Cost Control and Analysis
Standard Costing
Setting up of Standards, Types of Standards, Standard Costing as method of performance measurement.
Calculation and Reconciliation of Cost Variances-
Material Cost Variance, employee Cost Variance, Variable Overheads Variance and Fixed Overhead Variance.
Marginal Costing
Basic concepts of marginal costing, Contribution margin, Break-even analysis, Break –even and profit volume charts, Contribution to sales ratio, Margin of Safety, Angle of Incidence, Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis (CVP), Multi- product break- even analysis, Consideration of Limiting factor (key factor),
Determination of Cost of a product/ service under marginal costing method, determination of cost of finished goods, work-in-progress,
Comparison of Marginal costing with absorption costing method- Reconciliation of profit under the both methods,
Short term decision making using the above concepts (basic / fundamental level).
Budget and Budgetary Control
Meaning of Budget, Essentials of Budget, Budget Manual, Budget setting process, Preparation of Budget and monitoring procedures.
The use of budget in planning and control
Flexible budget, Preparation of Functional budget for operating and non- operating functions, Cash budget, Master budget,
Introduction to Principal/ Key budget factor, Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB), Performance budget, Control ratios and Budget variances.
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