MANAGMENT ACCOUNTING Launchbreak LTD 1. Be able to analyse cost information within a business 1.1 classify different types of cost 1.2 use different costing methods 1.3 calculate costs using appropriate techniques 1.4 analyse cost data using appropriate techniques 2. Be able to propose methods to reduce costs and enhance value within a business 2.1 prepare and analyse routine cost reports 2.2 use performance indicators to identify potential improvements 2.3 suggest improvements
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HBSP Product Number TCG129 THE CRIMSON PRESS CURRICULUM CENTER THE CRIMSON GROUP, INC. Converse Health System I don’t get it! We switched St. Luke’s from a profit center to a standard expense center, and yet they continue to encourage the PCPs to admit patients that we all know could be treated as outpatients. What’s going on? Maybe we should just switch back to profit centers and be done with it. The speaker was Gus Mahler, Chief Financial Officer of Converse Health System (CHS). He
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The Nature of Cost Accounting Cost accounting has been defined by many accounting scholars in various forums. There is no one watertight definition of cost accounting, but the various definitions all point to certain common aspects about the subject. Below are some definitions by certain authorities : “That part of management accounting which establishes budgets and standard costs and actual costs of operations, processes, departments or products and the analysis of variances, profitability or
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Question 1: * Proficient-level: * There are several important functions performed in an organization, among which accounting is one of them. Define the accounting function and discuss how it differs from double-entry bookkeeping. Answer: According to the Dictionary of Accounting Terms, Accounting is defined as a one step process of recording, measuring, interpreting and communicating financial data by preparing financial statements in order to reflect financial condition and operating
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CHAPTER 1 ACCOUNTING: INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING OVERVIEW OF BRIEF EXERCISES, EXERCISES, AND CRITICAL THINKING CASES Brief Exercises B. Ex. 1.1 B. Ex. 1.2 B. Ex. 1.3 B. Ex. 1.4 B. Ex. 1.5 B. Ex. 1.6 B. Ex. 1.7 B. Ex. 1.8 B. Ex. 1.9 B. Ex. 1.10 Learning Objectives 1, 3, 5 2, 5 3, 4 5, 6 1, 3, 5, 6 5, 6 2, 5, 6 7, 8 5, 7 1 Topic Users of accounting information Components of internal control Inexact or approximate measures Standards for the preparation of accounting information FASB conceptual
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25, 1999 Chapter 2: Normative Accounting Theory The purpose of this chapter is to identify those characteristics of accounting information that are thought to make one system of accounting better than another. Since the material is based on eighty years of accounting research, by countless researchers, it is clearly neither possible nor desirable to review all the arguments, or even the main arguments, used by advocates of all the different competing accounting systems. For instance, it would
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Campbellsville University School of Business and Economics SYLLABUS Course Title: ACC 601 Managerial Accounting Semester/Dates: Graduate Term 1: August 29, 2011 – October 23, 2011 (Traditional MBA) Meetings: Thursday (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM), AD 25 Faculty: Dr. Sunny Onyiri Office: AD 29-b Phone: (502) 365 4424
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a) What is accounting? b) What are the main reasons for keeping the accounts for a business? Explain c) Who are the users of the financial information of a company and why? Explain d) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the computerized accounting system? e) List some of the computerized accounting programmes available in the market and discuss why they are preferred. Accounting is the systematic recording, reporting and analysis of financial transactions of a business. The person
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involves the coordination of daily business functions within an organization. True False | 2. | Measuring the performance of managers and subunits is not an objective of managerial accounting. True False | 3. | Middle-level managers would likely be considered internal users of accounting information rather than external users. True False | 4. | A controller is normally involved with preparing financial statements. True False | 5. | The upper limit on
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