Syllabus

Course Code: MC 105    Course Name: Accounting for Managerial Decisions

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Management Accounting: Meaning, objectives, nature, tools& techniques of management accounting; Installation of management accounting system; Role of management accountant. Management Information System and Reporting: Objectives, types and methods of reporting, reporting needs at different levels of management; Designing and installation of a reporting system.
Responsibility Accounting and Divisional Performance Measurement: Meaning, significance and fundamental aspects of responsibility accounting; Responsibility centers; Divisional performance evaluation: Measures of performance - Return on Investment vs. residual Income; Methods and Problem of transfer pricing.
Budgeting: Essentials of budgeting; Kinds of budgets; Budgetary control; Zero-base budgeting.
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis: Types of standards, Setting of standards and their revision; Variance analysis – Material, labour and overheads, control of variances.
Marginal Costing and Break-even Analysis: Concept, Marginal costing versus absorption costing, Preparation of income statements, Break-even analysis & Cost-Profit- volume analysis; Composite break-even-point, managerial applications of marginal costing.
Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting: Price level adjustment accounting; Value chain analysis; Activity-based costing; Quality costing; Target and life cycle costing.
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