Cost Accounting: Introduction to Management Accounting

Learn Cost Accounting for Management. Includes Process Costing, ABC Systems, Variance Analysis, Cash Budgets and more.

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Cost Accounting: Introduction to Management Accounting

What You Will Learn!

Understand Cost Behaviors, Cost Drivers and Cost Driver Activity
Define Fixed and Variable Costs and Create Cost Functions
Use Regression Analysis using the Least Squares Method
Apply Activity Based Costing to Product Costs
Allocate Support Department Costs using the Direct, Step-Down and Reciprocal Method
Apply Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis (Break-Even Points)
Describe variance analysis, differentiate between price and usage variances, and calculate price and usage variances for costs
Prepare Cash Budgets
Prepare Production Reports for a Process Costing System

Description

Welcome to the Management Accounting Crash Course, which will provide you with 46 video lessons that span over 7 hours of content (including quizzes to help test your knowledge). Follow along as I explain the basics and fundamental concepts like cost drivers, the cost function, break-even points, journal entries, joint costing, budgets and more!

Managerial Accounting is the study of internal financial information that can influence decision-making. It's the follow up course to Financial Accounting, that can prove to be more difficult for students. We designed the course to act as a perfect supplement for those taking Managerial/Management Accounting in University or College. We'll walk you through the theory, providing examples and questions that will keep you engaged.

The first part of the course will cover:

Cost Measurement and Cost Behavior
The Design of Cost Functions
Fixed Costs, Variable Costs and Mixed Costs
Break-Even Analysis
Handling Direct and Indirect Costs

The second part will cover:

Process Costing, and Production Reports using Weighted Average and FIFO.
Activity-Based Costing for Overhead Costs
Preparing Cash Budgets
Variance Analysis
Support Departments: Direct, Step-Down and Reciprocal Method
And much more!

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