Management Accounting

Paper Code: 
24CATG611
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to develop an understanding of management accounting concepts and procedures and application of the same in real world scenarios. 

 

Course Outcomes: 

Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

title

24CATG611

Management Accounting

(Theory)

CO193: Understand the concept of Management Accounting.

CO194: Develop skills in planning & arranging working capital.

CO195: Evaluate the concept of Budgeting and its different methods.

CO196: Develop the skills to analyze and interpret Standard Cost or Variance Analysis.

CO197: Evaluate Management Accounting practice with the aim of improving the management accounting system by applying Activity Based Costing.

CO198: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussions, Tutorials Problem solving sessions, Presentations.

 

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Case Study Analysis, Presentations, Group Discussions.

 

Continuous Assessment Test,

Semester end Examinations,

Quiz,

Solving Numerical problems, Assignments, Class Presentations, Individual & group projects.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction:

● Meaning of Management Accounting,
● Functions of Management Accounting
● Difference between cost accounting and management accounting
● Cost Control, Cost Reduction and Cost Management

12.00
Unit II: 
Management of Working Capital:

● Concepts and Significance, Factors affecting working capital requirements,
● Ascertainment of working capital requirements using Operating Cycle Method, Net Current Assets or Forecasting Method, Projected Balance Sheet Method,
● Salient features of Tandon Committee and Chore Committee.
● Ratios relating to working capital.
● Case Study of working capital requirement for various industries.

12.00
Unit III: 
Budgetary Control:

• Concept of Budget, budgeting and budgetary control,
• Objectives, merits and limitations.
• Budget administration, Functional Budget, Fixed and flexible budgets,
• Zero Based Budgeting, and performance budgeting

12.00
Unit IV: 
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis:

• Meaning of standard cost and standard costing,
• Advantage, limitations and applications,
• Variance Analysis-Material, Labour, Overhead and Sales Variance

12.00
Unit V: 
Activity Based Costing:

• Concept, Nature or Characteristics, Elements, Process or Stages,
• Identification of Cost Drivers, Determination of Cost of each activity,
• Assigning or Tracing Activity Cost to Products,
• Distinction between Activity Based Costing System and Traditional System,
• Advantages and Limitations of Activity Based Costing System
Contemporary Issues:
• Responsibility Accounting: Concept, significance, different responsibility centres,
• Divisional performance measurement, financial and non-financial measures,
• Transfer Pricing

Essential Readings: 

● Management Accounting-Agrawal, Agrawal(Ramesh Book Depot)
● Management Accounting-Khan and Jain(Tata Mc Graw Hill)
● Management Accounting-M.R Agarwal(Malik and Company)
● Management Accounting: S. K Singh( Sun India Publications)
● Management Accounting-H.Chakraborty and S. Chakraborty(Oxfor University Press)
● Management Accounting and Financial Analysis-Dr S.N Maheshwari(S.Chand& Sons)
● Management Accounting- N. Vinayakkam& IB Sinha (Himalaya Publishing House)

References: 

M.Y.Khan and P.K.Jain, “Management Accounting” Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi
• Gupta S.P, Management Accounting, Sahitya Bhawan Publications.

e-Resources:
https://devlibrary.in/managerial and cost accounting/
https://www.icsi.edu/media/website/CostAndManagementAccounting.pdf
https://books.google.com/books/about/Cost_Accounting_Text_and_Problems.h...

Reference Journal:
● The Indian Journal of Commerce
● FIIB Business Review
● Vikalpa: Journal for Decision Makers

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