The overall aim of this unit is to introduce the fundamentals of management
accounting which apply to the wider business environment and the organizations
which operate within that environment. Students will explore how management accounting uses financial data to aid planning decisions, and the monitoring and
control of finance within organizations. On successful completion of this unit students will be in a position to present financial statements in a workplace context and be able to assist senior colleagues with financial business planning. In addition, students will have the fundamental knowledge and skills to progress onto a higher level of study.
On successful completion of this unit a learner will:
1 Demonstrate an understanding of management accounting systems.
2 Apply a range of management accounting techniques.
3 Explain the use of planning tools used in management accounting.
4 Compare ways in which organizations could use management accounting to
respond to financial problems.
Unit content
LO1 Demonstrate an understanding of management accounting systems
Introduction to management accounting: What is management accounting? Definition of management accounting. What is a management accounting system? Why is it important to integrate these within an organization? Explore the origin, role and principles of management accounting. The distinction between management and financial accounting.
Different types of management accounting systems:
Cost-accounting systems, inventory management systems, job-costing systems and price-optimising systems. Benefits of different types of systems.
Presenting financial information:
Why information should be relevant to the user, reliable, up to date and
accurate. Why the way in which the information is presented must be understandable.
LO2 Apply a range of management accounting techniques
Microeconomic techniques:
What is meant by cost? Different costs and cost analysis. Cost-volume profit, flexible budgeting and cost variances. Applying absorption and marginal costing.
Product costings:
Fixed and variable costs, cost allocation. Normal and standard costing, activity-based costing and the role of costing in setting price.
Cost of inventory:
Definition and meaning of inventory costs and different types of inventory costs.
The benefits of reducing inventory costs to an organization. Valuation methods.
Cost variances. Overhead costs.
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LO3 Explain the use of planning tools used in management accounting
Using budgets for planning and control:
Preparing a budget. Different types of budgets (e.g. capital and operating). Alternative methods of budgeting. Behavioural implications of budgets.
Pricing:
Pricing strategies. How do competitors determine their prices? Supply and demand considerations. Common costing systems: Actual costing, normal costing and standard costing systems. How cost systems differ depending on the costing activity: job costing,
process costing, batch costing and contract costing.
Strategic planning:
Applying PEST, SWOT, balance scorecard or Porter’s Five Forces analysis to the financial position of an organization.
LO4 Compare ways in which organizations could use management
Accounting to respond to financial problems
Identifying financial problems:
Using benchmarks, key performance indicators (financial and non-financial)
and budgetary targets to identify variances and problems.
Financial governance:
Definitions of financial governance, and how this can be used to pre-empt or
prevent financial problems. Using financial governance to monitor strategy.
Management accounting skill sets:
What are the characteristics of an effective management accountant?
How can these skills be used to prevent and/or deal with problems?
Effective strategies and systems:
The development of strategies and systems which require effective and timely
reporting, full disclosure of financial positions and are responsibly owned and governed.
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