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Course Overview
Covers managerial accounting; cost terms; planning and control; using cost data in decision-making. Specific topics include job order costing, process costing, cost behaviour, cost-volume-profit analysis, standard costs, budgeting, pricing products and services, relevant costs and capital budgeting.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in FMGT 1110
Credits
5.5
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment
- Identify the major differences and similarities between financial and managerial accounting.
- Understand the role of management accountants in an organization.
- Explain the importance of upholding ethical standards.
Cost Terms, Concepts, and Classification
- Identify and give examples of each of the three basic manufacturing cost categories.
- Distinguish between product costs and period costs and give examples of each.
- Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured in good form.
- Explain the difference in behaviour of fixed and variable costs.
- Define direct and indirect costs.
- Examine cost classifications used in making decisions: differential costs, opportunity costs, and sunk costs.
Systems Design: Job-Order Costing
- Distinguish between process costing and job-order costing and identify appropriate application of these costing methods.
- Compute predetermined overhead rates and apply to the costing process.
- Compute under- or over-applied overhead cost and prepare the journal entry to close the balance in Manufacturing Overhead to the appropriate accounts.
Systems Design: Process Costing
- Compute equivalent units of production using the weighted average method.
- Prepare a process costing production report using the weighted average method.
Cost Behaviour: Analysis and Use
- Understand how fixed and variable costs behave and how to use then to predict costs.
- Use a scattergram plot to diagnose cost behaviour.
- Analyze a mixed cost using the high-low method.
- Analyze a mixed cost using the least-squares regression method.
- Prepare and interpret an income statement using the contribution format.
Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships
- Use the contribution margin ratio (CM ratio) to compute changes in contribution margin and net operating income resulting from changes in sales volume.
- Show the effects on contribution margin of changes in variable costs, fixed costs, selling price, and volume.
- Compute the break-even point.
- Determine the level of sales needed to achieve a desired target profit.
- Compute the margin of safety and explain its significance.
- Compute the degree of operating leverage at a particular level of sales and explain how the degree of operating leverage can be used to predict changes in net operating income.
Activity-Based Costing
- Understand activity-based costing and how it differs from a traditional costing system.
- Assign costs to cost pools.
- Compute activity rates for cost pools.
- Assign costs to a cost object.
Budgeting
- Understand why organizations budget and the processes they use to create budgets.
- Prepare the various steps in a master budget.
Standard Costs
- Explain how direct materials standards and direct labour standards are set.
- Compute the direct materials price and quantity variances, and explain their significance.
- Compute the direct labour rate and efficiency variances, and explain their significance.
- Compute the variable manufacturing overhead spending and efficiency variances, and explain their significance.
- Flexible Budgets and Overhead Analysis.
- Prepare a flexible budget and explain the advantages of the flexible budget approach over the static budget approach.
- Prepare a performance report for both variable and fixed overhead costs using the flexible budget approach.
- Use the flexible budget to prepare a variable overhead performance report containing both a spending and an efficiency variance.
- Compute and interpret the fixed overhead budget and volume variances.
Segment Reporting
- Differentiate among cost, revenue, profit, and investment centres and explain how performance is measured in each.
- Compute and understand the return on investment (ROI) measure.
- Compute the residual income and understand the strengths and weaknesses of this method of measuring performance.
Relevant Costs for Decision Making
- Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant costs in decisions.
- Prepare an analysis showing whether a product line should be dropped or retained.
- Prepare a make-or-buy analysis.
- Prepare an analysis showing whether a special order should be accepted.
- Determine the most profitable use of a constrained resource.
Capital Budgeting Decisions
- Evaluate the acceptability of an investment project using the net present value method.
- Evaluate the acceptability of an investment project using the internal rate of return method.
- Rank investment projects in order of preference.
- Include income taxes in a capital budgeting analysis.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2012
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.