Course detail
Cost management
FP-nmPAcad. year: 2017/2018
The course deals with the methods and procedures for management expenses and utilization of cost functions in the pricing decision making, with methods and calculation procedures and their application in decision-making roles of cost management in a manufacturing company, with the transition of cost accounting to management accounting and cost management, with the responsibility accounting, with the cost accounting in relation to processes and activities. It also defines the modern tools of management costs TC, LCC, followed by calculation of costs of individual activities (ABC) and the related method of management processes and activities (ABM). The course primarily provides information for management and decision-making. After completing the course, students will be able to define their requirements for various decision-making tasks, this information categorize, evaluate and present to managers.
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Number of ECTS credits
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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
Skills of the student are tested on one test.
TEST I (11-12. week): 40 points
Minimum number of points: 25 points.
Correction term is the only one from each test, held in the credit week.
Course curriculum
Breakdown of costs and benefits from the point of view of the needs of management oriented to decision making, opportunity costs
Decision-making tasks. Basic classification criteria of these tasks, CVP. Optimization of production, optimization of the range, decision-making tasks "either-or".
Budgeting in market conditions.
Strategic cost management -calculation of the target costs(Target Costing) and life cycle costing (LCC)
Strategic cost management - calculations by sub-activities - the ABC
Management of processes, operations and activities - the ABC / M
Strategic cost management - value analysis
Strategic cost management-the concept of strategic cost management, factors affecting strategic cost management (TQM, JIT, Theory of restrictions)
Cost Cutting - alternative approaches to cost reduction.
Each exercise builds on the previous lecture with an emphasis on practical training
1., 2. Relevant, irrelevant costs. Differential costs and revenues. Incremental and border costs. Opportunity costs and revenues-computing examples.
3., 4. Short-term decision-making tasks, safety margins, CVP-computing examples.
Optimization of the production-computing examples.
5., 6. Optimization of the range, tasks of either-or "-computational examples.
Building of the command budget.
7.,8. Method ABC.
9.,10.Method TC a LCC. Value analysis.
11.,12. TEST I.
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Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KRÁL,B.a kol. Manažerské účetnictví. 3.doplněné vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2010.660s.ISBN 978-80-7261-217-8. (CS)
ŠOLJAKOVÁ, L.Strategicky zaměřené manžerské účetnictví.1.vyd.Praha:Management Press.2009.206s.ISBN 978-80-7261-199-7 (CS)
Recommended reading
GARRISON,R.H. Managerial Accounting.Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Inc.1221 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NZ,10020,2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies.ISBN 0-07-242338 (EN)
Hradecký, M., Lanča, J., Šiška, L. Manažerské účetnictví.1.vyd. Grada,2008. 264 s.ISBN 978-80-247-2471-3 (CS)
J.Fibírová,L. Šoljaková, J. Wagner Manažerské účetnictví -- Nástroje a metody. 1.vyd.Grada, 2012, 391 s.ISBN 978-80-7357-712-4. (CS)
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