
After completing this lecture students will get a basic idea of what management accounting entails and how is it different from financial accounting.
Explains the meaning of cost and distinguishes direct, indirect, fixed, and variable costs, showing how direct costs trace to production (materials or labor) and indirect costs are allocated.
Compare marginal costing and absorption costing by highlighting how variable costs versus all costs including fixed overhead affect inventory valuation, cost of goods sold, and net income across scenarios.
This course will make the students familiar with cost accounting concepts. They will learn Budgeting, Marginal and Absorption Costing.
Students will learn the basics of management accounting and its importance in planning and decision making.
They will learn to analyse and present key information required for decision making in organisations. by various stakeholders.