COST ACCOUNTING

Introduction

• Meaning and definition of cost accountancy
•  Nature and Scope of Cost Accounting
• Cost Concepts, Distinction between Financial and Cost Accounting.
•  Elements of Cost
•  Cost Statements: An Introduction
• Introduction to Cost accounting standards: Objectives and advantages of cost accounting standards

Material

• Material Cost Management
• Need for Efficient Purchasing
• Storing of Materials, Methods of Inventory Control
• Some Specific Techniques Related to Operating Control System viz. ABC Analysis, VED Analysis, JIT, FSN
•  Material Cost and its Components
• Economic Order Quantity
• Inventory Levels i.e. Reorder Level, Maximum Stock Level, Minimum Stock Level, Average Stock Level, Methods of Issue Pricing i.e. LIFO, FIFO, Simple Average, Weighted Average, HIFO, Standard Price and Base Stock Method.

Labour

• Recruitment, Recording of time and wages
• Time Keeping and Time booking
• Job Evaluation and Merit rating
• Labour Turnover: meaning and nature
• Methods of calculating Labour Turnover
• Methods of remunerating Labours
• Incentive Plans
• Allocation of wages
• Idle Time: meaning and causes, Treatment of idle time, Over time.

Overhead

• Meaning, Collection
• Classifications, Apportionment
• Allocation and Absorption of overheads;
• Treatment of interest on capital
• Research and development expenses.

Single Output or Unit Costing

• Cost sheet
• Adjustments in cost sheet
• Treatment of Scrap, defectives,
• Absorption of overheads and calculation of Tender price
• Job Costing.

Contract Costing

• Contract accounting
• Methods of determining contract price
• Escalation clause
• Profit on incomplete contracts
• Different types of problems related to contract.