Course detail

Cost Accounting

FP-UnuKAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course focuses on the following areas in particular:
Costs and revenues, their meaning and possible breakdown (especially by type, purpose, calculation, by responsibility for creation, from the perspective of requirement for decisions)
Management costing – calculation (terms, subject of calculation and its definition, attribution of costs to subject of calculation, calculation of full and variable costs, structure of costs in calculation, calculation system)
- budgeting and budgets, (basic concepts, breakdown in terms of budgets, principles and methods of creating budgets, behavioural aspects of budgeting, long-term and short-term budgets, budget overheads, monitoring budget implementation)

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Skills: The student will be able to recognise the possibilities and restrictions of individual means of classifying costs in terms of their predictive abilities from the point of view of the manager taking into account the specifics of the business entity. They realize the possibility of cost management and understand the connection between cost classification, calculations and their linkage to budgets.
Skills: On both theoretical and practical levels, they acquire the knowledge necessary for determining the structure of costs in calculations, and choose the calculation techniques and systems – all with reference to the specifics or possibilities of the enterprise, or respectively the field of business.
They will learn to produce simplified long-term and short-term budgets and budget overheads including means of monitoring them.
Abilities: Students can produce a calculation formula with regard to the specific needs of the enterprise and using the appropriate technique allocate budget overheads to calculation unit/quantity, can produce simplified long-term and short-term budgets, and are able to check the implementation of the budget using monitoring methods selected with regard to the specific features of the company.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from the field of financial accounting (principles of accounting, fundamentals of accounting both in general and at the level of specific accounting cases, knowledge of financial statements), general knowledge of microeconomics (fixed and variable costs) and the economics of enterprises (own costs, full costs of own performance, cost price, market price).

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

Requirements for the awarding of credit:
- producing an independent semester paper on the application of calculation techniques on the basis of an individual assigment given by the teacher. The work can be submitted progressively, at the latest by week 13 of the semester .... 20 %
- producing an independent semester paper on the producing of a simplified short-term budget (budget balance sheet, income statement and cash-flow) on the basis of an individual assigment given by the teacher. The work can be submitted progressively, at the latest by week 13 of the semester ......... 20 %

Examination requirements:
Knowledge is tested in an oral examination.
Students will only be admitted to the examination who have applied and send both assigments at the latest by week 13 of the semester.
The examination involves responding to two open questions, which the examiner gives the students in writing. The student has time to prepare these, which they can do also in writing (essential is the capacity for practical application) and then they present this orally to the examiner. 60%

The resulting assessment of the course is the sum of the assessment of the seminars and the examination. The assessment is classified according to the ECTS scale.



Course curriculum

1 Náklady a výnosy, jejich význam a hlediska členění ( druhové, účelové,
kalkulační, dle odpovědnosti za vznik, z hlediska potřeb rozhodování)
2 Řízení po linii výkonů – kalkulace (základní pojmy - kalkulace, metoda
kalkulace, kalkulační jednice a kalkulační množství)
3 Předmět kalkulace a jeho vymezení, přičítání nákladů předmětu kalkulace,
kalkulace variabilních a úplných nákladů,
4 Metody výpočtu nepřímých
nákladů na kalkulační jednici.,
5 Struktura nákladů v kalkulaci - kalkulační vzorce, kalkulace s přiřazováním
nákladů dílčím aktivitám (metoda Activity Based Costing)
6 Uplatnění kalkulace - kalkulační systém (obecné schéma, kalkulační systém
v užším a širším pojetí), druhy kalkulací (propočtová, plánová, operativní,
výsledná, specifické kalkulace)
7 Rozpočetnictví a rozpočty, (základní pojmy,, úkol, význam a kontrola
rozpočtů, členění/druhy rozpočtů)
8 Zásady a metody sestavování rozpočtů.Dlouhodobé rozpočty a jejich
sestavování
9 Krátkodobé rozpočty a jejich sestavování
10 Rozpočty režijních nákladů a metody jejich sestavování
12 Kontrola plnění rozpočtů
13 Behaviorální aspekty rozpočtových prací

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Understanding the importance of cost breakdowns, gaining knowledge linked to the preparation and use of calculations both in theoretical field and on the level of practical applications.
Gaining theoretical and practical skills needed for the creation and monitoring of long-term and short-terms budgets and budget overheads.

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

Control of the results of the independent work on the assigned tasks. The quality is assessed by the teacher.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

FIBÍROVÁ, Jana a kolektiv: Nákladové a manažerské účetnictví. 1. vydání. Praha, Wolters Kluwer, 2007, 418 stran, ISBN 978-80-7357-299-0, EAN 978807357299.
HANUŠOVÁ, Helena: Nákladové účetnictví – metodické listy k předmětu. E´ learning.
KRÁL, Bohumil a kolektiv: Manažerské účetnictví – 1. vydání. Praha, Management Press, 1997, 407 stran, ISBN 80-7175-060- 3.
KRÁL, Bohumil a kolektiv: Manažerské účetnictví – 2. Rozšířené vydání. Praha, Management Press, 2008, 622 stran, ISBN 978-80-7261-141- 6.

Recommended reading

HORNGREN, Charles, T. Cost Accounting – A Managerial Emphasis. 14-th.ed. New Jersey, Prentice Hall International, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0136126638 ISBN-10: 0136126634.
KRÁL, Bohumil a kolektiv: Manažerské účetnictví v případových studiiích a úlohách – dotisk. Praha, Nakladatelství VŠE, 1997, 136 stran, ISBN 80-7079-990-0.
ŠOLJAKOVÁ, Libuše a kolektiv: Nákladové účetnictví v příkladech a úlohách. 1.vydání. Praha VŠE, Oeconomica, 2011. 230 stran. ISBN 978- 80-245-1752-0.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-KS Bachelor's

    branch BAK-UAD-KS , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

16 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

The basic topics covered in the lectures are as follows:
1. Costs and revenues, their meaning and possible breakdown (especially by type, purpose, calculation, by responsibility for creation, from the perspective of requirement for decisions),
2. Management costing – calculation (basic terms - calculation, calculation method, cost unit and calculation of amount),
Subject of calculation and its definition, attribution of costs to subject of calculation, calculation of full and variable costs,
3. Methods of calculation of indirect costs to cost unit,
4. Structure of costs in calculations – calculation formula, activity based costing) ,
5. Applying the calculation – calculation system (general scheme, calculation in the narrower and broader senses), types of calculation (estimated cost, plan cost, operational, resulting, specific calculation),
6. Budgeting and budgets (basic concepts, purpose, importance and monitoring of budgets, breakdown/types of budgets)
Principles and methods of creating budgets,
Long-term budgets and their creation,
7. Short-term budgets and their creation,
8. Budget overheads and methods for their creation,
Monitoring budget implementation,
Behavioural aspects of budgeting.