Cost Analysis for Decision Making

• Topics

  • 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

Entry Requirements

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

CUR-ACC100-Introduction to Accounting

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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• eTest 1 (15%)
• eTest 2 (15%)
• Case Report (40%)
• Invigilated Semester Test (30%)

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