College of banking and financial studies department of professional

COLLEGE OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Assignment Front Sheet
Assignment – 3.

Course:    Cost Accounting and Performance Management .

-Assignment:    Understand The Nature Source And Purpose Of Management Information And Cost Accounting Concepts. L.O. 3 Be Able To Compare Actual Costs With Standard Costs and Analyse Variances.

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Assignment Brief

Purpose of this –Assignment: Involvement with costs is fundamental to the role of management accountants. Any Business, whether it manufactures goods or provides a service, needs to know how much its product or services cost and how these costs might change in response to decisions made. This assignment will help you understand the nature source and purpose of management information and cost accounting concepts and to compare actual costs with standard costs and analyse variances. It also helps to understand performance measurement models: Balanced scorecard, benchmarking, types of benchrnarking.

Task 1 (L0–1 AC –1.1) P,M1 1.1 Explain the relationship of cost accounting to financial and managerial accounting. Context– Relevant to L.0.1.1 (P, M1) Cost accounting and financial accounting help the management formulate and control organization policies. Management accounting collects data from cost accounting and financial accounting. Thereafter, it analyzes and interprets the data to prepare reports and provide necessary information to the management. On the other hand, cost books are prepared in cost accounting system from data as received from financial accounting at the end of each accounting period.

Required:

in relation to the above explain the relation of cost accounting to Financial and Management AccoUnting and how it helps management in decision making.

Pass: To get the Pass Grade explain briefly Cost accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Accounting and explore the relationship between them.

Ml- To achieve Ml, differentiate Cost, Financial and Managerial Accounting.

Task 2. (LO–1 AC 12 )

Tested in semester 3 Management Accounting Costing and Budgeting. (Learning Outcome 1.1) Classify different types of cost.

Task 3 (10 –1 AC 1.3) P, M3, D1 1.3 Estimate inventory values using different methods. Scenario–1

The Smith manufacturing Company discloses the following information about the stock for the month of. April 2016:

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Pass – To achieve Pass grade you should be able to estimate inventory values using FIFO and AVCO methods.

M3 – To achieve M3 you will need to apply appropriate structure to calculate stock value using the above methods.

D1- To achieve Dl you should get the difference between the stock values using above methods and evaluate the reasons of differences.

Task 4 (LO-1 AC- 1.4) P,Ml,M3

1.4 Differentiate between cost, profit, investment and revenue centres.

Scenario:

A media company has several divisions. One is a magazine publishing division. This division is divided into three operating units: fashion magazines, sports magazines and business magazines, which operate from different offices. The fashion magazines unit has three main functions: commissioning, editing and printing, and marketing and sales.

The media company might organize its cost and management system as follows:

·      Each of the divisions in the media company, including the magazines division, might be an investment centre. The senior manager of the_ magazines division might have the authority to incur capital expenditure to acquire new assets for the division. The performance of the magazines division might be measured by its annual return on investment (ROl).

·      Within the magazines division, the fashion magazines unit, sports magazines unit and business magazines unit might be profit centres. The manager of each unit might be responsible for the revenues and costs of the unit, and the performance of each unit would be measured by the profit that it makes.

·      Within the fashions magazine unit, each of the operating functions (commissioning, editing and printing, and marketing and sales) might be a cost unit. The manager in charge of each unit is responsible for costs, and the performance of the cost unit might be measured by comparing the actual costs of the cost centre with its budgeted costs:

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Pass- To get the Pass grade explain responsibility accounting and differentiate between cost, profit, investment and revenue centres.

1‘111- To get M1 grade you should be able to make judgement, of all the divisions in the above scenario and link them with the appropriate responsibility centre.

M3 — To get M3 you should present the information given in the scenario in an appropriate format and explain how managers of responsibility centres are responsible for the performance of their part of the organization and its activities.

Task 5 (10-1 AC- 1.5) P,M2, D1

1.5                                  – Separate the fixed and variable elements of total costs using a suitable method in a given

situation.

Scenario- 3

The following table shows the number of patients treated and total costs for the hospital for each of the past four months

Variable cost per unit and total fixed cost is constant within this range of activity.

Pass- To get the pass grade you should be able to separate the fixed and variable elements of total costs using a suitable method in a given scenario.

M2 – To get M2 you should be able to select suitable method to separate the fixed and variable elements of total costs and explain it.                                                                                                   .

D1 — Using the identified method you should calculate the total costs (to the nearest $) in month 5 if number of patients are 7,500 and justify valid conclusions.

Task 6 (10-3 AC- 3.1) P,M1

3.1 – Explain and illustrate the difference between standard cost card under marginal and absorption costing.

Scenario

DLL products Ltd. Manufactures and assembles one type of furniture unit. Company is fully automated based on simple machine intensive process. Company plans to produce 5,000 units in a year. Based on historical data the Company calculated the following standards concerning direct Inputs:

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