COURSE CODE 101:
ACCOUNTING FOR
BUSINESS DECISIONS
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• 1. To understand the basic concepts of financial accounting,
cost accounting and management accounting.
• 2. To know various tools from accounting and cost accounting
this would facilitate the decision making.
• 3. To develop analytical abilities to face the business
situations.
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UNIT 1
Basic Concepts:
• Meaning of Business decisions and importance of business decisions.
• Forms of business organizations
• meaning of accounting, basic concepts, terms used in business
accounting.
• Types of accounts, journal, ledger and trial balance.
• Accounting equations and users of accounting information.
• Accounting concepts and conventions.
• Difference between financial, cost accounting and management
accounting
• Use and applicability of Tally in accounting.
UNIT 2
Understanding of Financial Statements:
• Meaning , Importance and objectives of financial statements.
• Preparation of final accounts of sole proprietary firm.
• Making financial decisions on the basis of financial
statements.
UNIT 3
• Basic concepts of cost accounting.
• Objectives of Cost Accounting, Classification and analysis of
costs, Relevant and irrelevant costs, differential costs, sunk
costs
• Preparation of Simple Cost sheet.
UNIT 4
• Material cost control
• Procurement
• Pricing of issues
• Inventory control techniques
• Fixation of various levels
• Economic order quantity,
• Material losses, Labour cost control, time keeping and time
booking
• Overheads, Collection, Classifications, allocation and
apportionment of overheads.
UNIT 5
• Marginal costing
• Break-even point
• Cost Volume Profit analysis, Optimizing product mix, Pricing
decisions.
• Budgeting - Cash and Flexible budgets only
• Standard costing – Material and Labour Variances only.
WEIGHTAGE
• Total : 100 Marks
• SPPU Written: 50 Marks
• SPPU Online : 20 Marks (MCQ Questions)
• Internal : 30 Marks
• Internal Consist of Assignment , Class Test ,MCQ Test
• SPPU Written Pattern:
• Theory Questions : 30% (15 Marks)
• Numerical problems : 70% marks in the final question paper. (35 Marks)
Numerical Problems will be asked on the following topics:
• Preparation of financial statements of proprietary concerns. (Unit
2)
• Pricing of issues: - FIFO, LIFO, Simple Average & Weighted
average methods. (Unit4)
• Allocation and apportionment of Overheads. (Unit 5)
• Computation BEP and related areas.(Unit 4)
• Optimizing product mix. Make or buy decisions. (Unit 4)
• Cash and Flexible budgets (Unit 5)
• Computation of Material and Labour variances. (Unit 5)
• Cost Sheet or Types of Costs (Unit 3)
TEXT BOOKS
• Management Accounting – Dr. Mahesh Kulkarni
• Accounting For Business Decisions by Dr. E B Khedkar and
Dr. D B Bharati
REFERENCE BOOKS
• Financial Accounting for Management: Shankarnarayanan/ Ramanath- CENGAGE
Learning
• Financial Cost and Management Accounting - P Periasamy
• Management Accounting - Madhu Vij
• Fundamentals of Management Accounting – H. V Jhamb
• Cost and Management Accounting – M N Arora
• Financial Accounting for Managers – Mr. Sanjay Dhmija, Pearson Publications
• Management Accounting – Mr. Anthony Atkinson, Robert Kaplan, Pearson
• Management Accounting – Mr. Khan and Mr. Jain, Tata McGraw Hill
• Financial Accounting part I – Mr. S. N. Maheshwari
• Accounting For Management-Jawarhar Lal
• Accounting – Shukla Grewal
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SUPPLEMENTARY
READING MATERIAL
• Management Accounting - Mr. Ravi Kishore
• Accounting for Managers – Dearden and Bhattacharya
• Websites-Institute of Cost Accountants, Institute of Chartered
Accountants
• Journals - Indian Journal of Finance