Management Accounting for Engineers

Description

This module provides an understanding of key issues and applied methodologies relating to management accounting frameworks used by managers when faced with making financial decisions in the context of the business environment. The focus is on information for cost management, budgetary control, and short and longer-term financial decision making. That information enables managers to plan for and subsequently control operations. It examines the blend of financial analysis and managerial judgment required to make sound decisions. In particular there is an emphasis on approaches to and issues associated with determining the full cost of products, services and activities; contribution costing and Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis; relevant costs for decision making; core investment appraisal techniques (Accounting Rate of Return, Payback, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return); budgetary control, variance analysis and standard costing.