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The full curriculum, start to finish. Every lesson and assignment unlocks the moment you buy the course.

Unit 01

What is managerial accounting?

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  • Definition
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  • Cost Classification: One Cost, Many Labels
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  • Exercises
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Unit 02

Management control concepts

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  • Management control vs financial accounting
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  • The cost vocabulary — classifying any cost
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  • Contribution margin and the break-even point
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  • Target profit and the margin of safety
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  • Pricing — cost-plus and contribution-margin methods
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Unit 03

Traditional costing and ABC costing

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  • Traditional costing
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  • Exercise: Traditional costing
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  • Activity Based Costing
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  • Exercise: ABC Costing
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  • Traditional costing vs ABC costing
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  • Exercises
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Unit 04

Responsibility Centers

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  • Dividing the company — centralisation, decentralisation, responsibility centres
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  • The four centre types — cost, revenue, profit, investment
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  • Measuring an investment centre — ROI and residual income
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  • Controllability and the goal-congruence trap
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Unit 05

Transfer pricing

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  • What is transfer pricing?
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  • Cost-based transfer pricing
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  • Exercises — cost-based transfer pricing
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  • Market-based and negotiated transfer pricing
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  • The sensible range — floor, ceiling, and full capacity
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  • Quantity and yield — when the divisions count different units
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  • Exercises — market-based and negotiated transfer pricing
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  • Manager incentives — bonuses, method preference, and the whole-company view
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  • Integrative exercise — centre type, price range, goal congruence
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  • Transfer pricing across borders — why tax changes the game
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  • Worked example — three methods, three countries
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  • Staged exercise — two countries, two methods
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  • Transfer price with currency exchange
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  • Import duty — three new rows in the buyer's column
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  • Choosing the price — minimising taxes and duties inside the allowed range
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Unit 06

Planning and budgeting

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  • Why we budget, and the shape of the process
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  • The revenue budget and the production budget
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  • Exercises — revenue and production budgets
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  • The direct materials budgets — purchases and usage
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  • Exercises — materials purchases and usage
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  • The labour, overhead, and selling & administrative budgets
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  • Exercises — labour, overhead, and S&A budgets
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  • The budgeted income statement — COGM, FIFO inventories, COGS
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  • Exercise — the budgeted income statement
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  • The whole process — one solved example
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  • Exercises — the whole process, from a blank page
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  • The human side of budgeting
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  • The cash budget
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Unit 07

Review

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  • Exam 1
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