Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

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Managerial Accounting

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ACC150

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Managerial Accounting

The Managerial Accounting online course focuses on the identification, gathering, and interpretation of information for planning, controlling, and evaluating the performance of a business. Study concepts like the measurement of the costs of producing goods or services and learn how to analyze and control these costs. Our Managerial Accounting course also analyzes managerial accounting principles and systems through process and job order costing.

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Outcomes

After completing this course students will be able to:

Compare and contrast between managerial accounting and financial accounting and assess how managerial accounting affects various management functions.

Discuss ethical standards in an organization and assess their role in the field of managerial accounting.

Define cost and distinguish between product costs and period costs.

Analyze the fundamental manufacturing cost categories and diagram the flow of product costs in a manufacturing operation.

Describe job-order costing system and evaluate its suitability in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms.

Describe process costing and evaluate the suitability of process costing in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms.

Compare and contrast traditional volume-based costing system and activity-based costing system.

Interpret cost behavior patterns to estimate costs and assess the need for contribution approach to income statements.

Graph CVP relationships and compute the break-even point using the contribution-margin and equation approach.

Determine the criteria that decide the relevance of a cost or a benefit and explain the concepts of sunk costs, opportunity costs, and unit costs.

Describe the key decision areas in capital budgeting and explain the concept of time value of money.

Describe the elements of a budgeting framework and assess the need for a budgeting framework in an organization.

Describe the various ways to set performance standards and assess the role of performance standards in cost management.

Explain the role of responsibility accounting in achieving set goals and list the responsibility centers.

Identify the components of a statement of cash flows and show how changes in noncash balance sheet accounts are represented on a statement of cash flows.

TOPIC LESSON TOPIC SUBTOPICS OBJECTIVES
1 Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment
  • What Is Managerial Accounting?
  • Managerial Accountants in an Organization
  • Ethics in Managerial Accounting
  • Measuring Costs and Benefits
  • Changing Role of Managerial Accounting
  • Discuss ethical standards in an organization and assess their role in the field of managerial accounting.
  • Analyze how the changing business environment has led to innovations in managerial accounting.
  • Compare and contrast between managerial accounting and financial accounting and assess how managerial accounting affects various management functions.
  • Outline the roles and responsibilities of a managerial accountant and describe the fundamental tools and practices used in managerial accounting.
2 Concepts of Cost Management Accounting for Custom Operations
  • Cost Concepts: An Overview
  • General Cost Classifications
  • Cost Classifications on Financial Statements
  • Cost Classifications for Different Purposes
  • Define cost and distinguish between product costs and period costs.
  • Analyze the fundamental manufacturing cost categories and diagram the flow of product costs in a manufacturing operation.
  • Analyze the cost components on financial statements and prepare an income statement and a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for a manufacturer.
  • Compare direct and indirect costs and distinguish between variable and fixed costs.
3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in the Production Environment
  • Product and Service Costing
  • Flow of Costs in Manufacturing Firms
  • Types of Product-Costing Systems
  • Job-Order Cost Accumulation
  • Overhead Application
  • Extended Illustration of Job-Order Costing: Calculations and Journal Entries
  • Financial Schedules
  • Further Aspects of Overhead Application
  • Discuss the role of product and service costing in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms.
  • Diagram and explain the flow of costs through the manufacturing accounts used in product costing.
  • Distinguish between job-order costing and process costing.
  • Compute a predetermined overhead rate, and explain its use in job-order costing for job-shop and batch-production environments.
  • Prepare journal entries to record the costs of direct material, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead in a job-order costing system.
  • Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured, a schedule of cost of goods sold, and an income statement for a manufacturer.
  • Describe the process of project costing used in service industry firms and nonprofit organizations.
4 Product and Hybrid Product Costing Systems
  • Comparison of Job-Order Costing and Process Costing
  • Purpose of product-costing systems
  • Differences in manufacturing environments
  • Differences in cost accumulation
  • Similarities in cost flows
  • Equivalent Units in Process-Costing Systems
  • Stage of completion of the work-in-process ending inventory
  • Equivalent-unit calculations
  • Illustration of Reporting in a Process-Cost System
  • The departmental production report
  • Weighted-average method
  • Steps in preparing the departmental production report
  • Other Issues in Process Costing
  • Actual versus normal costing
  • Using a cost driver other than direct labor
  • A Hybrid Product-Costing System: Operation Costing for Batch Manufacturing
  • List and explain the similarities and important differences between job-order and process costing.
  • Prepare journal entries to record the flow of costs in a process-costing system with sequential production departments.
  • Prepare a table of equivalent units under weighted-average process costing.
  • Compute the cost per equivalent unit under the weighted-average method of process costing.
  • Prepare a departmental production report under weighted-average process costing.
  • Describe how an operation costing system accumulates and assigns the costs of direct-material and conversion activity in a batch manufacturing process.
5 Activity Based Costing and Management
  • Traditional Cost Management
  • ABC Management
  • Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Costing
  • Activity-Based Costing: Key Issues
  • Describe traditional volume-based costing system and compute product costs under a traditional volume-based costing system.
  • Describe activity-based costing system and compute product costs under an activity-based costing system.
  • Analyze how cost drivers and data collection help in addressing issues such as need for a new costing system in activity-based costing.
6 Analysis of Activity, Cost Behavior and Cost Estimation
  • Cost Behavior Patterns
  • Analyzing Mixed Costs
  • Applying Cost Behavior
  • Interpret cost behavior patterns using a scattergraph plot.
  • Analyze a mixed cost using high-low method and least squares regression method.
  • Estimate costs after studying cost behavior patterns.
  • Assess the need for contribution approach to income statements and prepare an income statement using the contribution format.
7 Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
  • Approaches to CVP Analysis
  • Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Relationship
  • CVP Analysis and Cost Management
  • CVP Analysis and Cost Structure
  • Graph CVP relationships.
  • Compute the break-even point using the contribution-margin and equation approach.
  • Apply CVP analysis to demonstrate the effect of changes in variable cost, fixed cost, and sales volume on profit.
  • Analyze the impact of cost structure on profit stability and compute the degree of operating leverage at a specific sales level.
8 Absorption and Variable Costing
  • Product Cost and Fixed Manufacturing Overhead
  • Absorption-costing income statements
  • Variable-costing income statements
  • Reconciliation of Absorption- and Variable-Costing Income
  • No change in inventory levels
  • Increase in inventory levels
  • Decrease in inventory levels
  • Overall Evaluation of Absorption and Variable Costing
  • Throughput Costing
  • Explain the accounting treatment of fixed manufacturing overhead under absorption and variable costing.
  • Prepare an income statement under absorption costing.
  • Prepare an income statement under variable costing.
  • Reconcile reported income under absorption and variable costing.
  • Explain the implications of absorption and variable costing for cost-volume-profit analysis.
  • Evaluate absorption and variable costing.
  • Explain the rationale behind throughput costing.
  • Prepare an income statement under throughput costing.
9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting
  • Framework of Budgeting
  • Budgets as a Planning Tool
  • Preparing the Master Budget
  • Activity-Based Budgeting
  • Create a diagram showing the steps taken to create a budget and describe the different types of budgets.
  • Prepare different types of budgets and budget schedules for the master budget.
  • Demonstrate how activity-based budgeting operates using an example and assess the need for an activity-based budgeting system.
  • Describe the elements of a budgeting framework and assess the importance of budgeting in an organization.
10 Operational Performance Measures: Standard Costing and Balanced Scorecard
  • Setting Performance Measures
  • Cost Variance Analysis
  • Using Standard Costs for Evaluation
  • The Balanced Scorecard
  • Describe the various ways to set performance standards and assess the role of performance standards in cost management.
  • Assess the significance of cost variances in setting standards.
  • Compute the material price and quantity variances and the labor rate and efficiency variances and prepare journal entries to record cost variances.
  • Analyze the role of a balanced scorecard in developing strategies.
11 Flexible Budgeting: Managing Overhead and Support Activity Costs
  • Flexible Budgets: An Overview
  • Overhead Variance
  • Overhead Analysis
  • Activity-Based Flexible Budgets
  • Create a diagram showing the components of a flexible budget and assess the importance of flexible budgeting in an organization.
  • Diagram variable overhead spending and efficiency variances using graphs and compute variable overhead variances.
  • Interpret variable overhead variances and prepare an overhead cost performance report and a flexible overhead budget.
  • Compare and contrast activity-based flexible budgeting and traditional flexible budgeting.
12 Responsibility Accounting: Quality and Environmental Cost Control
  • Responsibility Accounting: An Overview
  • Segment Reporting
  • Decentralization
  • Segment Performance Evaluation
  • Prepare performance reports for various responsibility centers and a segmented income statement.
  • UDefine decentralization and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
  • Use the return on investment and residual income approaches to measure an investment center's performance.
  • Explain how responsibility accounting can achieve set goals and list the responsibility centers.
13 Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits
  • The Decision-Making Model
  • Identifying Relevant Costs and Benefits
  • Aspects of Decision Making
  • Activity-Based Costing and Relevant Costs
  • Determine the criteria that decide the relevance of a cost or a benefit and explain the concepts of sunk costs, opportunity costs, and unit costs.
  • Prepare analyses of various decision categories using relevant costs and benefits.
  • AAssess the importance of activity-based costing in relevant-cost analysis.
  • Demonstrate the steps in the process of decision making using an example and distinguish between quantitative and qualitative analyses in decision making.
14 Allocation of Support and Joint Costs
  • Service Department Cost Allocation: A General Overview
  • Methods of Service Department Cost Allocation
  • Direct method
  • Step-down method
  • Reciprocal-services method (appendix)
  • Dual-Cost Allocation
  • Today's Advanced Manufacturing Environment
  • Joint Product Cost Allocation
  • Allocate service department costs using the direct method and the step-down method.
  • Use the dual approach to service department cost allocation.
  • Explain the difference between two-stage cost allocation with departmental overhead rates and activity-based costing (ABC).
  • Allocate joint costs among joint products using each of the following techniques: physical-units method, relative-sales-value method, and net-realizable-value method.
  • Describe the purposes for which joint cost allocation is useful and those for which it is not.
  • Allocate service department costs using the reciprocal-services method.
15 Review
  • Course Review
  • Complete a review of key content covered in this course.


StraighterLine suggests, though does not require, that students take Accounting I and Accounting II or its equivalent before enrolling in Managerial Accounting.



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StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.

If you have chosen a Partner College to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit. There are a total of 1000 points in the course:

TOPIC ASSESSMENT POINTS AVAILABLE
4 Graded Exam 1 125
7 Graded Exam 2 125
7 Midterm Exam 200
11 Graded Exam 3 125
14 Graded Exam 4 125
15 Final Exam 300
Total 1000

Final Proctored Exam

The final exam is developed to assess the knowledge you learned taking this course. All students are required to take an online proctored final exam in order complete the course and be eligible for transfer credit.

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