Advanced Management Accounting
Kurs
In London (Grossbritannien)
Beschreibung
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Kursart
Kurs
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Ort
London (Grossbritannien)
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Dauer
7 Tage
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
The difference between management accounting and financial accounting.
The difference between fixed and variable costs.
How to calculate variable and fixed costs using the high-low method.
How to use break-even analysis as a decision-making tool.
How to calculate and understand contribution, the break-even point, and margin of safety.
The limitations of break-even analysis.
Why overheads need to be included when costing products.
How to calculate a simple ‘blanket’ overhead rate.
How to apply absorption costing methods to fully cost out a range of products.
The limitations of traditional costing methods.
Standorte und Zeitplan
Lage
Beginn
Beginn
Hinweise zu diesem Kurs
Those who wish to understand the implications of decisions made across a range of management accounting issues; those who wish to develop the ability to analyse, interpret, and question the accounting information they may encounter in a business context; those who wish to acquire a sound appreciation of accounting and finance in order to communicate and succeed in the business world; non-accounting staff who desire a practical introduction to the fundamentals of management accounting.
certificate
Meinungen
Themen
- Management
- Pricing
- Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Interpreting
- Cost Accounting
- Decision Making
- Budgeting
- Financial Training
- Financial
- Analysis
- Analytical accounting
- Product Analysis
Inhalte
- Fixed and variable costs
- Contribution
- Break-even analysis
- The margin of safety
- Interpreting break-even analysis
- Assumptions underlying break-even analysis
- Direct and indirect costs
- Absorption costing
- Calculating a blanket rate
- Over and under recovery
- Calculating a department rate to fully cost the product
- Activity-based costing
- The advantages of budgets
- The process of budgeting
- Preparation of a budget
- Problems of budgeting
- Budgets to monitor performance and flexible budgeting
- Variance analysis
- Using cost information to price your product
- Discounts and distribution margins
- Choosing the appropriate costing method
- Pricing and product strategy
- Optimum pricing
- Target costing
- Life-cycle costing
- Transfer pricing
- What are relevant revenues and costs?
- Make or buy decisions
- Limiting factors
- Upgrading equipment
- Closure of sites or discontinuing products
- Accounting rate of return
- Payback period
- Net present value
- Discounting to present value
- Internal rate of return
- Performance measurement: strategy and objectives
- Financial and non-financial performance measurement
- Key performance measures
- Benchmarking
- The balanced scorecard
- Customer profitability analysis
- Integrated reporting
- Environment accounting and carbon reporting
- Corporate governance
- Ethics
Advanced Management Accounting