Advanced Cost Accounting

Service Costing (Operating Costing) :Meaning of Service Cost, Service costing in case of Transporters, Boiler house, Hospitals, Canteens and Hotels.
Reconciliation of Cost & Financial Statements: Causes of differences, Procedure of Reconciliation of the results of Cost and Financial Accounts, Reconciliation Statement and Memorandum Reconciliation Account.

Process Costing: Meaning of Process costing, Procedure Treatment of Normal and Abnormal Loss and Abnormal Gains, Accounts for Normal and Abnormal loss and Abnormal Gain, Inter process Profit
Equivalent Production, Treatment of W.I.P. on FIFO and Weighted Average Method. Joint and By Product Costing

Cost Control Accounts: Costing Books, Advantages and disadvantages, Ledgers to be maintained, Journal Entries. Integrated accounts: Integrated Accounting, Procedure, Integrated accounts vs. Cost and Financial accounts

Marginal Costing : marginal costing versus absorption costing, Cost- Volume-Profit Analysis, Profit / Volume ratio. Break-even analysis-algebraic and graphic methods. Angle of incidence, margin of safety, Key factor, determination of cost indifference point.

Decision Making: Decisions based on Marginal Costing like Make or Buy, Own or Lease, Shut down or Continue
Production Decisions: Dropping or adding a product, Determining the most beneficial product mix, Production method to be adopted,
Pricing decisions in special circumstances like sale below cost, export pricing, dumping and inflation.