Summary Accounting for Managers
Course: Accounting for Managers (B-KUL-D0N83a-1920)
Prof. Amin Salimi Sofla
2019-2020
Summary written by Robin Kelchtermans
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,Preface
This is a summary of the slides for the course Accounting for Managers at KU Leuven. Sometimes I follow the book,
instead of the slides or I add information from the book. The chapter numbers are the same as the lecture numbers
until chapter 9, then it messes up because of the quizzes (not included).
Be aware that this is a student writing. Typos, wrong conclusions, bad structure… will happen. If you see any (real)
mistakes, please let me know on robin.kelchtermans@student.kuleuven.be.
Dear future reader, this has been written in 2019-2020. So, please do not send me an email after 2020.
If you fail your exam: blame yourself. If you succeed: flowers and gifts are always welcome!
Good luck with this!
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,Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................................................................ 2
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................ 3
1. Accounting Basics ..................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1. The Basics ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.2. Debit, Credit and Transactions ..................................................................................................................... 6
1.3. Trial Balance and Financial Statements ........................................................................................................ 7
2. Cost Concepts and Classifications .............................................................................................................. 9
2.1. Managerial Accounting ................................................................................................................................. 9
2.2. Cost Concepts and Classification .................................................................................................................. 9
2.2.1. Cost and Cost Object ............................................................................................................................ 9
2.2.2. Direct vs. Indirect costs.......................................................................................................................10
2.2.3. Variable vs. Fixed costs .......................................................................................................................10
2.2.4. Period vs. Product costs......................................................................................................................10
2.2.5. Prime Cost and Conversion Cost.........................................................................................................11
2.2.6. Flow of Costs .......................................................................................................................................11
2.2.7. Presentation of Costs..........................................................................................................................12
3. Job Order Costing ................................................................................................................................... 14
3.1. Types of Cost Accounting Systems .............................................................................................................14
3.2. Job Order Cost Flow....................................................................................................................................15
3.2.1. Accumulating Manufacturing Costs....................................................................................................15
3.2.2. Assigning Manufacturing Costs to Work in Process ...........................................................................15
3.2.3. Manufacturing Overhead Costs ..........................................................................................................16
3.2.4. Assigning Costs to Finished Goods .....................................................................................................17
3.2.5. Assigning Costs to Cost of Goods Sold ................................................................................................17
3.2.6. Summary of Job Order Cost Flows......................................................................................................17
3.3. Under- and Overapplied Overhead ............................................................................................................18
4. Process Costing ...................................................................................................................................... 20
4.1. Process Cost Flow .......................................................................................................................................20
4.2. Equivalent Units ..........................................................................................................................................20
4.2.1. Conversion costs .................................................................................................................................21
4.2.2. Refinements on the Weighted-Average Method ...............................................................................21
4.3. Production Cost Report ..............................................................................................................................21
4.4. Operation Costing .......................................................................................................................................22
5. Activity-Based Costing ............................................................................................................................ 24
5.1. Activity Based Costing versus Traditional Costing Methods ......................................................................24
5.2. How Costs are Treated Under Activity–Based Costing ...............................................................................24
5.2.1. Hierarchy of Activity Levels ................................................................................................................25
5.2.2. Allocation of costs...............................................................................................................................25
5.2.3. ABC in service industry .......................................................................................................................25
5.2.4. Costly Customer..................................................................................................................................26
5.2.5. General notes .....................................................................................................................................26
5.2.6. Example of ABC ...................................................................................................................................26
5.3. Product Margins .........................................................................................................................................26
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, 5.3.1. The traditional way .............................................................................................................................26
5.3.2. The ABC way .......................................................................................................................................26
5.3.3. Differences ..........................................................................................................................................26
5.4. External Reporting & ABC Limitations ........................................................................................................27
6. Activity Based Management (ABM)......................................................................................................... 28
6.1. Activity Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................28
6.1.1. The Importance of Customer-Perceived Value ..................................................................................28
6.1.2. Eliminating Non-Value-Added Activities.............................................................................................29
6.1.3. Identifying Value-Added Activities .....................................................................................................29
6.2. Activity Management .................................................................................................................................29
6.2.1. Tools for Determining Root Cause......................................................................................................29
6.2.2. Implementation of Activity Based Costing & Management ...............................................................29
7. Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships ........................................................................................................... 31
7.1. Contribution Margin ...................................................................................................................................31
7.1.1. Basics of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis ................................................................................................31
7.1.2. The Contribution Approach ................................................................................................................31
7.1.3. CVP Relationships in Equation Form ..................................................................................................31
7.1.4. Cost-Volume-Profit Graph ..................................................................................................................31
7.1.5. Contribution Margin Ratio (CM Ratio)................................................................................................32
7.1.6. Changes on Net Operating Income.....................................................................................................32
7.2. The Break-even Point & Target Profit.........................................................................................................32
7.2.1. Break-even Analysis ............................................................................................................................32
7.2.2. Computing the Break-even Point for a Multiproduct Company ........................................................33
7.2.3. Target Profit Analysis ..........................................................................................................................33
7.3. The Margin of Safety and its Significance ...................................................................................................34
7.3.1. Cost Structure and Profit Stability ......................................................................................................34
7.3.2. Operating Leverage ............................................................................................................................34
7.3.3. Structuring Sales Commissions ...........................................................................................................34
7.4. Formula Review ..........................................................................................................................................35
8. Relevant Information and Decision Making ............................................................................................. 36
8.1. Relevant and Irrelevant Costs .....................................................................................................................36
8.2. Adding and Dropping Segments .................................................................................................................36
8.3. Make or Buy Analysis ..................................................................................................................................36
8.3.1. Vertical Integration and Value Chain Economies ...............................................................................37
8.3.2. The Make or Buy Decision ..................................................................................................................37
8.4. Special Orders .............................................................................................................................................37
8.5. Constrained Resources ...............................................................................................................................37
8.6. Joint Costs and Products.............................................................................................................................37
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