Unit purpose 课程目标
This Unit is designed to enable you to gain knowledge and develop practical skills in the preparation of financial forecasts (management accounting information) and the use of these in the decision-making process within a business organisation.
outcomes 教学目标
Outcome 1 covers the preparation of an operating statement. You will learn about the structure of an operating statement and how to classify costs into direct and indirect. You will also learn about overheads and their allocation and absorption into an operating statement. You will also look at different methods of determining profit — mark-up and margin.
Outcome 2 you will further develop your understanding of costs for a business thorough marginal costing and its application in relation to providing relevant data for decision-making. You will ompare alternative costing methodologies — Full, Absorption and Marginal. You will calculate the effect of changing costs and revenue levels on the total contribution made by the goods and ervices an organisation produces. You may also be introduced to break-even and margin of safety calculations, although these elements are not formally assessed.
Outcome 3 will cover flexed budgets. In order to give you a fuller understanding of this area of management accounting you will cover the preparation of functional budgets. This Outcome will also cover variances as a comparison between revenue and costs for the organisation. You will develop the necessary skills to allow you to analyse these variances and make recommendations to management as a result of your analysis.
Outcome 4 looks at the application of investment appraisal techniques — both traditional and discounted cash flow as an aid to decision-making. You will also look at the effects of limited funds on selecting projects as well as the normal appraisal techniques.
Assessment 考核
This Unit may be assessed by two assessment tasks each covering two Outcomes — Outcomes 1 and 2 being assessed together and Outcomes 3 and 4 being assessed together.
The first assessment should be generated under closed book, supervised conditions andshould last approximately two hours. Figures must be accurate within a tolerance of four arithmetic or computational errors, with a maximum of two errors of principle for each outcome.
The second assessment would requirecandidates to produce a report with appropriate appendices based on a givencase study. This should take the form of a home-based exercise and the evidence could be submitted in the form of a report which incorporates both word-processing and spreadsheet application packages.
Class
performance 40% Including attendance and Self-assessment questions for both online and offline teaching
Assessment for outcome 1 & 2 - 30%
Assessment for outcome 3 & 4 - 30%
Textbook 教材

