Cost Accounting
Course Description
This course introduces cost terminology and flows, standard cost systems, relevant costing, budgeting, inventory control, capital asset selection, responsibility accounting, and performance measurement.
Topics and Objectives
Fundamentals of Managerial and Cost Accounting
- Identify key components and terminology utilized within cost accounting.
- Compare and contrast process and job-cost systems.
- Examine ethical issues in managerial accounting.
- Differentiate between direct and indirect costs.
Cost Allocation
- Assess the advantages and disadvantages of an activity-based costing (ABC) system.
- Identify cost drivers for cost objectives.
- Calculate overhead rates using cost drivers.
- Compute allocation of overhead costs to final cost objects.
Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) and Budgeting
- Distinguish among fixed, mixed, and variable costs.
- Calculate a break-even point using the elements of Cost-volume-profit (CVP).
- List the components of an operating and financial budget.
- Prepare income statements using both variable and absorption costing.
Variance Analysis
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using standard costing.
- Calculate price, usage, and overhead variances.
- Determine the causes of over applied or under applied overhead variances.
Pricing Decisions and Responsibility Accounting
- Determine pricing for external and internal sales.