ACCG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Financial Accounting, Financial Statement, Direct Labor Cost
Management Accounting (Ch. 8)
ACCG101 –Week 10
2015 Session 1 –Stanley & Rajni
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Learning Objectives
1. What is management accounting and how it is different to
financial accounting?
2. explain three ways in which costs are used by management
for decision making (p. 344)
3. define and identify the three manufacturing cost elements —
direct materials, direct labour and factory overhead (pp. 348–
50)
4. explain the basic nature of absorption costing and a cost
allocation based on cost behaviour (pp. 350–1)
5. identify the essential differences in the financial statements
for retail and manufacturing entities
6. prepare a cost of goods manufactured statement (pp. 351–
3), including the completion of a worksheet (pp. 353–62)
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WHAT IS MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNTING?
“Management accounting refers to the processes and
techniques that focus on the effective and efficient
use of organisational resources* to support
managers in their tasks of enhancing both customer
value and shareholder value.”
*Resources –can be financial or non-financial, including: information,
work processes, employees, loyal customers and committed suppliers
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Document Summary
50: explain the basic nature of absorption costing and a cost allocation based on cost behaviour (pp. 350 1) identify the essential differences in the financial statements for retail and manufacturing entities. 5: prepare a cost of goods manufactured statement (pp. 3), including the completion of a worksheet (pp. Management accounting refers to the processes and techniques that focus on the effective and efficient use of organisational resources* to support managers in their tasks of enhancing both customer value and shareholder value. *resources can be financial or non-financial, including: information, work processes, employees, loyal customers and committed suppliers. Produced as needed in whatever form is required. Produced at standardised intervals as determined by regulation. Cost information is crucial for the planning, control and evaluating functions performed by management. Direct costs: can be traced to a product (e. g. machine hours used to produce ipads)