Course detail

Contemporary Issues in European Management Accounting

FP-ciiePAcad. year: 2014/2015

a) Financial and management accounting a theier developmnet in condition of globalization
b) Budgets
c) Standard Costing
d) Reporting
e) Appraisal

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

a) an understanding the contemporary an expected development of management and financical accounting from the view of globalization.
b) Enable students to be comfortable with theory and with pracital ipmementation of budgeting and Standard Costing.
c) Analysis of application of accounting information systems for the purposes of strategic and operation management - reporting.
d) To enable students to be comfortable with problems of appraisal, in financial accounting and managerial accounting.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in the area of financial accounting (principles of bookkeeping, basics of accounting generally and at the level of given accounting calculations, knowledge of accounting statements), general knowledge in of microeo economics and enterprise corporate economics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course contains lectures that explain basic principles, problems and methodology of the discipline, and exercises that promote the practical knowledge of the subject presented in the lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Coursesemester - work
Case study - individual elaboration on Short-term-Budget

Exam:
has divided into two parts:
written part - Individualy elaborated assigment (theme of it will bew discused and acepted by the lecturer)
oral part - discusion about assigment

The graded course-unit credit is required conditional on the these following conditions:
POINTS
1.elaboration of coursesemester-work 30
2.completion of the final test 40
3.oral examination 30
TOTAL POINTS 100

Course curriculum

- Development of management and financical accounting from the view of globalization
- Budgets and Budgetings (aspects of budgets classification, three principles of drawing up budgets, methods of drawing up the budgets, long-term budgets, short-term budgets. indirect cost budgets, budget control, Behavioral aspects of budgeting works, budgetary slack)
- Standard Costing (Short characteristic of Standard Costing, Level of standards in relation to time and its characteristics, Application of Standard Costing in homogenous and heterogenous production, Application of joint cost method to establish overhead cost.
- Reporting (short characteristic of reporting, principles and problems in creating and geting together the reports, reporting as a source of information for operational and strategic management)
Appraisal (short characteristic, appraisail in finacial and management accounting, historical price and its modification, correction of historical price in various account systems)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

a) To enable the students an understanding the development of management and financical accounting from the view of globalization.
b) To introduce to many generally used concepts, methods and techniques of management accounting and to enable understanding of these methods, especially budgeting and Standard Costing.
c) Analysis of application of accounting information systems for the purposes of strategic and operation management - reporting.
d) To enable students to be comfortable with problems of appraisal, in financial accounting and managerial accounting.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Control of the results of individual given assigned courseworktasks.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Cooper R., Kaplan R.S. (1991): The Design of Cost Management Systems. Textes, Cases, and Readings, Prentice Hall International Ed., (EN)
Horngren C.T., Foster G., Datar S. Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis. Prentice Hall Int. (EN)
Kaplan R.S., Norton D.P. (1996): The Balanced Scorecard. Translating Strategy into Action. HBS. (EN)
Kaplan R.S., Norton D.P. (2001): The Strategy-Focused Organization. Harvard Business School Press (EN)
Maher M.W., Deakin E.B. (1994): Cost Accounting. Richard D. IRWIN, INC. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR-EBF Master's

    branch MGR-EBF , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1th Introduction to subject
2, 3 Financial and management accounting and their characteristics, their differences and developments with regard to globalization
4th Budgets and budgeting (basic concepts, principles of budgeting, budgeting methods,
5th long-term budgets,
6th short-term budgets,
7th overhead budgets, control of budget implementation,
8th behaviorist aspects of budgetary work, budget reserve
9th, 10th Standard cost method (basic concepts, application methods in serial SN, piece, homogeneous and associated manufacturing method for SN overheads)
11, 12 Reporting (basic concepts, principles and problems of compiling reports, the role of reporting for operational and strategic management)
13th Apraisal (familiarity with the issue of valuation in the financial and management accounting, historical cost, its modifications and corrections in different accounting systems)

Exercise

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1.,2. Case study of differences between the financial and managerial accounting
3rd Examples of implementation of the principles and methods of budgeting
4th Build long-term budget - sample program
5th build short-term budget - a pilot example
6th build short-term budget - Workshop
7th examples of budgeting expenses and monitoring compliance with budgets,
8th case study on the behaviorist aspects of budget work
9th SN methods in application , homogeneous and associated manufacturing
SN 10.implementation SN method for overhead costs - a practical example
11.Practical examples of reports - case study
12th compilation report - Workshop
13th Practical examples of the impact of apraical of the assets and liabilities of the company)