Advanced Cost Accounting
ICTD International Centre for Training and Development
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ICTD International Centre for Training and Development
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Who should attend
This course is intended for all CFO’s, controllers, directors or managers of finance and other cost professionals with at least two years of experience, including accounting managers, budget analysts, systems analysts, plant managers, auditors and financial planners.
About the course
Cost accounting is no longer just a tactical overhead allocation function. It’s a tool that can help you determine true product cost information. In this five-day course, you’ll learn to incorporate Activity-Based Costing with advanced traditional costing methodologies and transform yourself into a real strategic partner within your organization.
## Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:
- Learn How to Perform an ABC-Based Product and Customer Profitability Analysis
- Effectively Allocate Factory and Corporate Overhead—and Prevent Over- or Under-Costing of Products
- Perform Capacity Analysis to Ensure Effective Development of Plant-Wide Standards
- Evaluate Variances to Identify the True Cause of Less Than Optimal Performance
- Improving processes by analyzing the true causes of product cost variances
- Effectively determining joint- and by-product costs
- Assigning service department costs to calculate total product costs
- Developing the target cost model
- Transfer pricing and product cost determination
- Capacity analysis: understanding the true cost of incremental manufacturing
## Course Outline
*THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT *
- Discuss the Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Aspects of Today's Global Buiness Entity
- Use the Organizational Planning Framework© to Develop Unique Business Models
- See How the Changing Role of Cost Accounting in the Global Business Entity Applies to Your Organization
- Understand How Cost Information Is Critical as a Decision Support Tool
- Use the Product/Decision Cycle© to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Current Cost Reporting System
EVALUATING YOUR COMPANY'S COSTING TECHNIQUES
- Discuss the Responsibility Accounting Process
- Understand the "Profit-Enhancement" Perspective: Looking Beyond Cost Savings
- Identify the Challenges Facing a Multi-Product Company
- Determine the Challenges Facing the Multinational Company
- View Cost Accounting as a Value-Added Resource
- Understand the Needs of the Internal Customer
- Determine the Informational Needs of the Internal Customer
ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AS AN EFFECTIVE COST ACCOUNTING TOOL
- Discuss the Theory of Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
- Use ABC as a Forecasting Tool
- Define the "Process" as Used in ABC
- Identify the Products of a Specific Process
- Project Cost as a Product Rather Than an Entity
- Define the Elements of Cost Including Activity, Resource, and Consumption Rates
- Identify the Key Processes in the Conversion Cycle
- Identify the Key Activities in Each Process
- Identify the Resources Consumed as Each Activity Is Performed
- Determine the Cost of Each Activity
- Project the Cost of the Activity, Process, and Product
- Define the Differences between ABC and GAAP
- Integrate ABC Concepts into Traditional Cost Accounting Systems
- Use ABC to Develop Cost Standards
DEVELOPING STANDARDS AS A TOOL FOR VALUATION AND STRATEGIC DECISION SUPPORT
- Discuss the Nature and Purpose of Standards
- Use Standards as a Process Management as Well as Financial Management Tool
- Define Standards in a Manufacturing Environment
- Define Standards in a Service Environment
- Develop Standards for Tactical Planning: The Budget
- Develop Standards for Strategic Planning: The Business Plan
- Design Standards Development to Support Product Continuation Decisions
- Establish Standards Development to Support New Product Introduction Decisions
- Develop Standards Using ABC Concepts
VARIANCE ANALYSIS AS A PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TOOL: ANALYZING THE TRUE CAUSES OF PRODUCT COST VARIANCES
- Perform Variance Analysis
- Calculate Material Price and Usage Variances
- Calculate Material Mix and the Material Yield Variances
- Calculate Labor Rate and Efficiency Variances
- Calculate Labor Mix and Labor Yield Variances
- Calculate Overhead Rate and Efficiency Variances
- Calculate Sales Volume, Mix, and Price Variances
- Calculate the Price Recovery Variance
- Calculate the Productivity Variance
- Calculate Market Share and Size Variance
- Use Variance Analysis as an operational Analysis Tool
EFFECTIVE DETERMINATION OF JOINT- AND BY-PRODUCT COSTS
- Define Joint Products
- Define By-Products
- Determine the Split-Off Point
- Identify Separable Costs
- Determine the Cost Impact of Joint Products
- Calculate the Proper Allocation of Joint Product Costs
- Discuss the Cost Impact of By-Products
- Analyze the Cost Impact of Scrap and Waste
- Determine the Cost Impact of Rework
ASSIGNING SERVICE DEPARTMENT COSTS TO DETERMINE TOTAL PRODUCT COST
- Define What Comprises Service Department Costs
- Identify the Purpose for Allocation of Service Department Costs
- Define the Strategic and Tactical Decisions Supported by Allocation of Service Department Costs
Develop Allocation Alternatives for Distribution of Service Department Costs Using:
Direct Allocation Method
Step-Down Allocation Method
The ABC Consumption Method
Developing the Target Cost Model
Define Target Costing
Identify the Strategic and Tactical Applications of Target Costing
Profit Maximization
Capacity Utilization
Define the Components of the Target Costing Model
Variable Costs (Product vs. Process)
Fixed Costs (Product vs. Process)
Define Scarce Resources
Perform a Scarce Resource Analysis
Discuss the Application of Scarce Resource Analysis as an Integral Part of the Target Costing Model
Develop Standards Using Target Costing and Scarce Resource Analysis
Analyze Standards Using Target Costing and Scarce Resource Analysis
TRANSFER PRICING AND PRODUCT COST DETERMINATION
- Define Transfer Pricing
- Identify the Tax Implications for Off-Shore Manufacturing
- Discuss the Product Pricing Implications for Inter-Divisional Transfers of Sub-Components
Apply the Impact Of:
The Uniform Tax Code Section 482
FASB 94
Accounting Research Bulletin Nos. 43 and 51
Communicate the Informational Requirements of the Cost Information System
CASH FLOW AND COST ACCOUNTING
- Define Cash as the Fuel That Drives the Organization
- Discuss the Difference between Cost and Cash
Determine the Impact of Cash Decisions on the Total Cost of the Production and Overhead Operations
Payable and Receivable Cycles
Inventory Levels
Recovery of Investments in R&D
CAPACITY ANALYSIS: UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE COST OF INCREMENTAL MANUFACTURING
- Define Capacity Analysis
- Calculate the Impact of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Develop the Capacity Analysis Model
Apply the Capacity Analysis Model To:
Production Units
Service Units
Investment Decisions
Product and Sales-Related Decisions
Scarce Resource Analysis
CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY: THE KEY TO PROFIT ENHANCEMENT
- Discuss Customer Profitability Analysis
- Develop the Customer Profitability Analysis Model
- Define the Informational Requirements for the Customer Profitability Analysis Model
Identify the Applications for the Customer Profitability Model
Use with Scarce Resource Analysis
Use with Capacity Analysis
Use with Fixed Asset Investment Decisions
Use the Customer Profitability Model Concept to Support Other Decision Types:
Product Continuance
Selection of Preferred Suppliers
Determination of Asset Continuation
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