Cost Analysis for Decision Making

• • Introduction
  • Management Accounting
  • Cost terms and concepts
  • Cost behaviour, cost drivers and cost estimation
  • Product Costing
  • Activity based costing
  • Budgeting systems
  • Cost- Volume-Profit analysis
  • Information for decisions: relevant costs and benefits
  • Preparation for Case Report
  • Introduction to strategy and control systems

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

CUR-ACC102-Financial Decision Making, or CUR-ACC100-Accounting - The Language of Business, or CUR-ACC240-Accounting - The Fundamentals of Business ;

Special requirements

No special requirements

Foundation subject around management accounting techniques integrated with statistical methods applied to; costing models, profit planning and decision making techniques.

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• Case Study (20%)
• Portfolio (30%)
• Final Remote Invigilated Examination (50%)