ACCT 203 - Cost Accounting I

1. Discuss the difference between financial and cost accounting and list the professional associations and agencies that govern cost accounting.
2. Define and discuss the basic concepts and classifications that provide the foundation for a thorough understanding of cost accounting.
3. Prepare financial statements for a manufacturer.
4. Discuss the cost of materials, labor, and factory overhead and apply the methods by which these costs are controlled.
5. Discuss and apply the accumulation and classification of routine cost data via a set of procedures of a system, including both periodic cost accumulation systems and perpetual cost accumulation systems.
6. Utilize a job-order cost system including journal entries which also takes into account spoiled goods, defective goods, scrap material, and waste material.
7. Discuss the nature and characteristics of a basic process cost accounting system.
8. Prepare journal entries needed for a basic process cost accounting system and a cost of production report.
9. Employ the techniques for handling beginning work-in-process inventories, spoiled goods, defective goods, scrap, and waste materials under a process cost system.
10. Utilize the techniques involved in accounting for joint products and by-products.
11. Discuss the concepts of standard costing for materials and labor and utilize variance analysis.
12. Discuss and apply the standard costing procedures for budgets and factory overhead, setting the standards, and different methods of variance analysis.
13. Communicate effectively using correct Standard English, both orally and in writing by completion of papers, projects and/or presentations.
14. Apply costing concepts to Cost-Volume-Profit analysis.

• Managerial versus financial accounting
• Job order and process costing
• Periodic and perpetual cost accumulation
• Journal entries for cost accounting systems
• Joint and by-products
• Variance analysis
• Basic cost concepts and classifications in cost accounting systems
• Financial statement preparation for manufacturer

 
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