Accounting For Decisions Making
Accounting For Decisions Making
Accounting For Decisions Making
Objectives
The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the accounting concepts, tools and
techniques for managerial decisions.
Goals
Students are gathering more ideas regarding Decision making accounting, which is helpful for
making important decision and managerial level
Unit I
Introduction to Management accounting as an area of accounting, Nature, Scope, Limitations
and Advantage of Management accounting, accounting and Managerial decision, Role of
Management accountant and Responsibilities.
Unit II
Standard costing and variance analysis, Standard costing as a technique of cost control, Variance
analysis, Material, Labour and Variable overhead, and Practical problems.
Unit III
Marginal costing and Break even analysis. Concept of Marginal costing and absorption costing
and direct costing. Cost volume profit analysis. Break even analysis -Practical problems. Fund
flow and cash flow as per (AS-3).
Unit IV
Accounting for price level changes, Introduction, Effect of Inflation, Overstatement of profit.
Overstatement of rate of return. .Approaches to Inflation accounting, Partial and complete
revaluation methods. Current purchasing power method, Conversion factor or Multiplier,
Restatement of items of financial statements, Purchasing power gain or loss on monetary items,
and Practical problems.
Unit V
Budgetary control, Introduction. Meaning and Definition of Budget, Types of Budget, Fixed and
Flexible budget, Cash budget. Master Budget and Practical problems.
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