CAMCost Accounting and Management
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Course Overview
Managing costs is an important aspect of managing a company’s profitability and efficiency. During this course, we will review the various methods available to assign costs to products and services, as well as the more qualitative aspects of costing, namely quality costs and environmental costing.
We will also review how the control of costs can help management to make more efficient short-term business decisions and how we can analyse the efficiency of costing methods.
We will also review how the control of costs can help management to make more efficient short-term business decisions and how we can analyse the efficiency of costing methods.
Key Takeaways
1
Understand how to analyze and allocate costs in an activity based costing system
2
Calculate inventory cost and the impact on profits of absorption and variable costing methods
3
Create a budget to calculate standard costs rates and value inventory using these rates
4
Understand what is management accounting
5
Understand the differences in gross profit and inventory between different types of companies
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Course Outline
Part 1
What is Management Accounting?
→ Definition of management accounting
→ Differences between financial accounting and management accounting
Case study: The participants will be required to complete a short quiz.
→ Differences between financial accounting and management accounting
Case study: The participants will be required to complete a short quiz.
Cost Classification for Different Types of Companies
→ Manufacturing companies
→ Retailing companies
→ Service companies
Case study: The participants will be required to review a number of anonymous companies’ financial statements extracts and determine which type of company they are.
They will also be required to discuss the differences between these companies.
→ Retailing companies
→ Service companies
Case study: The participants will be required to review a number of anonymous companies’ financial statements extracts and determine which type of company they are.
They will also be required to discuss the differences between these companies.
Product Costing Using Job Order Costing and Process Costing
→ Differences between job order costing and process costing
→ Recording materials and labour costs in a job order costing system
→ Recording overheads in a job order costing system
→ Recording completion and sales of finished goods
→ Adjusting for over/under allocation of overheads
→ Allocating costs in a process costing system
Case study: The participants will be required to review the costs incurred in a manufacturing company and allocate these costs to the jobs and/or processes. They will also be required to justify their decision, discuss the main differences between job order and process costing, and highlight the impact of the costing decisions on profits.
→ Recording materials and labour costs in a job order costing system
→ Recording overheads in a job order costing system
→ Recording completion and sales of finished goods
→ Adjusting for over/under allocation of overheads
→ Allocating costs in a process costing system
Case study: The participants will be required to review the costs incurred in a manufacturing company and allocate these costs to the jobs and/or processes. They will also be required to justify their decision, discuss the main differences between job order and process costing, and highlight the impact of the costing decisions on profits.
Part 2
Absorption and Variable (Marginal) Costing
→ The differences between absorption costing and variable costing
→ Treatment of fixed costs under variable costing
→ Treatment of fixed costs under absorption costing
→ Different absorption costing methods available
Case study: The participants will be required to allocate costs using both absorption and variable costing, discuss the differences between these costing methods and the impact on inventory valuation and profits.
→ Treatment of fixed costs under variable costing
→ Treatment of fixed costs under absorption costing
→ Different absorption costing methods available
Case study: The participants will be required to allocate costs using both absorption and variable costing, discuss the differences between these costing methods and the impact on inventory valuation and profits.
Standard Costing and Flexible Budgeting
→ Preparing a flexible budget for the income statement
→ Preparing an income statement performance report
→ The benefits of standard costing and how to set standards
→ Computing standard cost variances for direct materials and direct labour
→ Analysing manufacturing overheads in a standard costing system
→ Recording transactions at standard cost and preparing a standard cost income statement
Case study: The participants will be required to prepare a flexible budget using standard costing. They will thereafter be required to analyse the variances to actual costs and prepare a report for management as to their impact on profits.
→ Preparing an income statement performance report
→ The benefits of standard costing and how to set standards
→ Computing standard cost variances for direct materials and direct labour
→ Analysing manufacturing overheads in a standard costing system
→ Recording transactions at standard cost and preparing a standard cost income statement
Case study: The participants will be required to prepare a flexible budget using standard costing. They will thereafter be required to analyse the variances to actual costs and prepare a report for management as to their impact on profits.
Activity Based Costing and Activity Based Management
→ What is activity based costing?
→ Identifying the relevant activities
→ Identifying the relevant cost drivers
→ Computing the allocation rates
→ Allocation of indirect costs using ABC
→ Activity Based Management - using ABC to make decisions
Case study: The participants will be required to allocate costs using the activity based costing method, compare to other costing methods for differences in inventory valuation and profits, and thereafter discuss the merits of this costing method.
→ Identifying the relevant activities
→ Identifying the relevant cost drivers
→ Computing the allocation rates
→ Allocation of indirect costs using ABC
→ Activity Based Management - using ABC to make decisions
Case study: The participants will be required to allocate costs using the activity based costing method, compare to other costing methods for differences in inventory valuation and profits, and thereafter discuss the merits of this costing method.
Just-in-time (Jit) Production Systems
→ What is a JIT system?
→ Advantages and disadvantages of JIT systems
→ JIT costing
Case study: The participants will be required to discuss the impact on inventory valuation and profits of changing to a JIT system from a traditional production approach, based on financial information provided, and make a recommendation as to whether to adopt this system or not.
→ Advantages and disadvantages of JIT systems
→ JIT costing
Case study: The participants will be required to discuss the impact on inventory valuation and profits of changing to a JIT system from a traditional production approach, based on financial information provided, and make a recommendation as to whether to adopt this system or not.
Part 3
Total Quality Management (TQM)
→ What is Total Quality Management?
→ The four types of quality costs
→ Deciding whether to adopt a new quality program
Case study: The participants will be required to calculate the potential cost savings of adopting a number of quality programs and make a recommendation as to whether to go ahead with a specific program or not at all.
→ The four types of quality costs
→ Deciding whether to adopt a new quality program
Case study: The participants will be required to calculate the potential cost savings of adopting a number of quality programs and make a recommendation as to whether to go ahead with a specific program or not at all.
Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships and Analysis
→ How do changes in volume affect costs?
→ Using CVP analysis to compute breakeven points
→ Using CVP analysis for profit planning
→ Using CVP methods to perform sensitivity analyses
→ Calculating the breakeven point for multiple products or services
Case study: The participants will be required to prepare a report for management highlighting the sales volume required to achieve various profit levels, as well as the breakeven sales volume. The analysis should include a calculation of the extent by which each element of the profit equation needs to change to achieve a specified reduction in the breakeven sales volume.
→ Using CVP analysis to compute breakeven points
→ Using CVP analysis for profit planning
→ Using CVP methods to perform sensitivity analyses
→ Calculating the breakeven point for multiple products or services
Case study: The participants will be required to prepare a report for management highlighting the sales volume required to achieve various profit levels, as well as the breakeven sales volume. The analysis should include a calculation of the extent by which each element of the profit equation needs to change to achieve a specified reduction in the breakeven sales volume.
Making Short Term Business Decisions
→ What are relevant costs?
→ What is a cost benefit analysis?
→ Making special order and pricing decisions
→ Making drop a product and product-mix decisions
→ Making outsourcing decisions
→ Making sell as is or process further decisions
Case study: The participants will be required to complete a number of exercises relating to short term business decisions, and justify their recommendations.
→ What is a cost benefit analysis?
→ Making special order and pricing decisions
→ Making drop a product and product-mix decisions
→ Making outsourcing decisions
→ Making sell as is or process further decisions
Case study: The participants will be required to complete a number of exercises relating to short term business decisions, and justify their recommendations.
Environmental Costing
→ The impact of environmental issues on costs
→ TQM as it applies to environmental costs
→ Contribution of environmental costing to improved environmental and financial performance
Case study: The participants will be required to identify and analyse the environmental costs of a company and split them into the four types of quality costs. They will thereafter be required to discuss options for managing these costs with the objective of improving the company’s environmental and financial performance.
→ TQM as it applies to environmental costs
→ Contribution of environmental costing to improved environmental and financial performance
Case study: The participants will be required to identify and analyse the environmental costs of a company and split them into the four types of quality costs. They will thereafter be required to discuss options for managing these costs with the objective of improving the company’s environmental and financial performance.
Who Should Attend?
This highly practical and interactive course has been specifically designed for
This program is designed for delegates who wish to understand the methods for cost allocation and management, and the analysis of the impact of costing options on profitability and decision making. It would benefit both individuals with no previous knowledge of cost accounting and management, and those with some experience in management accounting or finance. However, no previous knowledge of cost accounting or finance is required, as we will cover the basics before going into more details.
Individuals in the following job descriptions, as well as those with an interest in cost accounting, would benefit from this course:
→ Cost accountants
→ Management accountants
→ Finance managers
→ Financial controllers
→ Budget and forecasting controllers
→ Financial planning and analysis managers
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