Course detail
Bookkeeping for Managers
ÚSI-2FCMUAcad. year: 2011/2012
The course is focused mainly on:
- Explaining the significance and function of accounting in general; types of accounting, the characteristics of in-house, financial and managerial accounting and their development trends in current economic context; basic differences (e.g. valuation, the users etc.) between in-house, financial and managerial accounting
- Basic company account sheets , their explicitness and analysis
- The costs and their classification
- Line management – cost accounting (terms, the subject of cost accounting, apportionment of costs to the subject of cost accounting, the cost accounting of full and variable costs, the structure of costs in the cost accounting, the cost accounting system
- Budgets and budgeting (basic terms, long term budgets, short term budgets, overhead costs budgets), methods of budget creating and controlling, behavioural aspects of budget work
- Standard Costs Method as a tool for cost management and control (basic terms, SCM in serial, job-work, homogenous, heterogeneous and associated production, the usage of SCM at overhead costs
- Reporting as a source of information for decision making (basic terms, characteristics, types, requirements), creating a report
- Responsibility accounting
The issue will be focused on risk engineering. Students will be able to indentify risks in complex and analyse them critically, to implement and assess measures taken in firms and institutions from the accounting point of view.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- They will learn to carry out the account sheet analysis of a firm.
- They will understand the possibilities and restrictions of particular ways of classifying the costs and their explicitness from the manager´s point of view.
- On both theoretical and practical levels, they will acquire the knowledge needed for providing the costs structure in cost accounting, the choice of a cost accounting technique and system as a source for information for decision making.
- They will acquire the principles of controlling the budget execution, and creating a report.
- They will understand the possibilities and importance of Standard Cost Method from the manager´s point of view .
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Elaboration of three individual tasks whose solutions are based on:
- Examples on the usage of relevant, irrelevant and opportunity costs
- Examples on usage of cost accounting techniques
- Examples on drawing up a short term budget
Written elaboration of individual semestral work – analysis of account sheets of a given firm
Exam requirements:
Knowledge of subject matter and their practical application
Form of the exam: oral
The methodology of assessing
The credit
- Examples on the usage of relevant, irrelevant and opportunity costs …………10 points
- Examples on usage of calculation technique……………………………………..10 points
- Examples on drawing up a short term budget…………………………………...10 points
Written elaboration of individual semester work ……………………………………......20 points
To receive the credit a minimum of 26 points is needed
The exam – the oral part ……………………………………………………………………50 points
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Total 100 points
The classification scale
Grade Points (in %)
A 100 - 91
B 90 - 81
C 80 - 71
D 70 - 61
E 60 - 51
F 50 and less
Course curriculum
2. Characteristics of in-house, financial and managerial accounting and their development trends in current economic context, basic differences (e.g. assessing, the users etc.) between the in-house, financial and managerial accounting.
3. Basic company account sheets , their explicitness and analysis.
4. The costs and their classification.
5. Line management – cost accounting (terms, the subject of cost accounting, apportionment of costs to the subject of cost accounting, the cost accounting of full and variable costs, the structure of costs in the cost accounting.
6. Cost accounting system.
7. Budgets and budgeting (basic terms, long term budgets, short term budgets, overhead costs budgets).
8. Methods of budget creating and controlling.
9. Standard Cost Method as a tool for cost management and control (basic terms, SCM in serial, job-work, homogenous, heterogeneous and associated production, the usage of SCM at overhead costs.
10. SCM as a tool for indentifying and analyzing the risks.
11. Reporting as a source of information for decision making (basic terms, characteristics, types, requirements), creating a report.
12. Reporting as a tool of identifying and analyzing the risks and a tool for evaluating the measures taken.
13. Introduction into the responsibility accounting as a tool for identifying and analyzing the risks.
Work placements
Aims
- Learning how to carry out basic account sheet analysis on specific examples (case studies processing).
- Gaining basic theoretical knowledge in cost accounting, budgeting, SC method and reporting.
- Gaining practical skills of drawing up a basic design of a short term budget and creating a report.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
2. Drawing up a short term budget (in the form of a practical example, carried out individually on seminars), assessing is 10% of final assessment
3. Drawing up an example for using relevant, irrelevant and opportunity costs (carried out individually on seminars, assessing is 10% of final assessment
4. Drawing up an example for cost accounting techniques (carried out individually on seminars, assessing is 10% of final assessment
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KRÁL,B. a kol.: Manažerské účetnictví. 2.rozšířené vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2008. 622 s. ISBN978-80-7261-141-6
Recommended reading
FIBÍROVÁ,J. Nákladové účetnictví (Manažerské účetnictví).2.vyd.Praha, VŠE Praha, 2001, 347s. ISBN 80-245-0212-7
GARRISON,R.H. Managerial Accounting. NewYork, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.2003.ISBN 0-07-242338-2
KOVANICOVÁ, D. Poklady skryté v účetnictví. 5.aktualizované vydání, Praha:Polygon, 1998, ISBN 80-85967-73-1
KRÁL, B. a kol. Manažerské účetnictví. 2.vyd. Prospektrum, s.r.o. Praha.2005. ISBN 80-7261-131-3
ŠOLJAKOVÁ, L. Cvičné příklady - Manažerské účetnictví. 2.vyd.Praha:ISÚ, 2005
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