Course detail
Cost management
FP-KrnlPAcad. year: 2011/2012
The subject focuses in value processes connected with an individual firm’s divisions, aims at budgeting area and budgets (fixed and flexible), where the students should obtain theoretical and practical skills for elaboration of long term, short term budgets and incidental expenses budgets. Fundamental area of the subject are costing, namely costing theories and costing practice – relationship of firm’s costs to costs on individual performances, transformation of costs in a budgeting and accounting structure (specific costs) and in costing structure (direct and indirect costs) and in capacity structure (variable and fixed costs). Traditional and modern costing attitudes are lectured.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
10 points
Passing of the final exam 60 points
Total maximum 100 points
Grading
Grade Number of points
A 100 – 90
B 89 - 80
C 79 – 70
D 69 – 60
E 59 – 50
F 49 - 0
Course curriculum
Budgeting, budgets and analysis of costs, budget function and content, long term and short term budgets, fixed and flexible budgets.
Costs classification, specific and costing costs, costs in relation to operational capacity utilisation and other perspectives of costs division.
Concept of costing system, costing as part of a firm’s information system. Total costs‘ costing. Incomplete production from the costing viewpoint, phase and sequence costing.
Absorbing costing, costing base and allocation problem of costing, specification of costing calculations, absorbing costing application.
Differential costing methods, standard costing method.
Dynamic costing, utilisation of cost functions for performance costing.
Incomplete costs costing, method of variable costs and its exploitation, contribution for payment of fixed costs and first and second degree profit. Critical point analysis.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Final exam
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
ŠOLJAKOVÁ, L. a kol.: Nákladové účetnictví v příkladech a úlohách. 2009.Praha:VŠE.3. vyd.230 s.ISBN 978-80-245-1172-6. (CS)
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