INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

KPK AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY PESHAWAR

Programme: MBA-II

Course Name: Cost Accounting

Course Code:MBA-713

Credit Hours: 03

Total Weeks: 16

Total Hours: 48

Course Objectives

This course of cost Accounting deals with planning and controlling. The planning function is essentially a decision making process and controlling deals with management task of organization. The connecting link between the originating planning function and the terminating control function is the cost accounting information system, rightly termed as a tool of management that permits effective communication, continuous feedback, responsibility accounting and managerial flexibility. This course will help the students to perform well and succeed at any level of management in both problem identification and problem solving.

Week 1:

Introduction

The Nature and Scope of Cost Accounting

Relationship of Cost Accounting to General Accounting

Limitations of Financial Accounting

Week 2:

Classification of Cost

Distinctions between Cost and Expense

Sources of Costing Accounting Data

Cost Department

Week 3:

Financial Statement

Reporting Function

Evaluating Annual Result to Outsider

Evaluating Annual Report Result to Insider

Week 4:

Cost of Goods Manufactured Statement

Cost of Goods Sold Statement

Income Statement & Balance Sheet

Week 5:

Job Order Costing

Cost Accumulation Procedure

Job Order Cost Accumulation Procedure

Cost Accounting Procedure for Material

Week 6:

Cost Accounting Procedure for Labor

Cost Accounting Procedure for F.O.H

Job Order Cost Sheet

Week 7:

Process Costing

Characteristic of Process Costing

Procedure of Process Costing

Procedure for Material

Week 8:

Procedure for Labor

Procedure for F.O.H

Cost of Production Report

Week 9:

Factory Overhead Application

F.O.H. Predetermined

Activity Level Selection

Predetermined F.O.H Factor.

Week 10:

Factory Overhead Actual and Applied

Factory Overhead Over and Under Applied

Variance Analysis

Week 11:

Controlling and Costing Of Material Cost

Procedure for Material Procurement and use

Material Costing Methods

FIFO, LIFO, and Average Method

Perpetual & Physical Inventory Systems.

Week 12:

Quantitative Model For Material

Planning Material Requirement

Economic Order Quantity

Maximum, Minimum, Level and Ordering Point

Week 13:

Planning And Controlling Labor Cost

Basis for Labor Cost Control.

Productivity and Efficiency Measurement

Labor Performance Report

Procedure for Labor Costing.

Incentive Wage Plan, Types & Purposes.

Week 14:

Budgeting Profit Sales And Cost

Profit Analysis

Types and Principles of Budget

Advantages of Profit Planning

Week 15:

Standard Costing

Objectives of Standard Costing

Budgets and Standards

Material Cost Standard

Week 16:

Labor Cost Standard

Factory Overhead Standard

Analysis of Variance

Recommended Book

COST ACCOUNTING PLANNING AND CONTROL-- Matz and Usry. South Western Publishing Company (1990).