2024-2025 / GCER2114-1

Analytical Accounting and Management Control

Duration

30h E-Lrng

Number of credits

 Executive Master in Accounting (Certificate organised abroad)3 crédits 

Lecturer

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

PART 1 : ANALYTICAL ACCOUNTING (= COST ACCOUNTING)
Chapter 1 : Introduction and goals of analytical accounting
Chapter 2 : Links between financial and analytical accounting
Chapter 3 : Cost classification
Chapter 4 : Cost-volume-profit analysis and break-even point
Chapter 5 : Cost calculation methods
PART 2 : MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Chapter 6 : Introduction - From strategy to action
Chapter 7 : Budgeting process
Chapter 8 : Standards setting and budgetary control
Chapter 9 : Balanced Scorecard

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of part 1 of this course, you should be able to :

  • explain the importance and the aims of analytical accounting
  • define and classify costs in actual, standard, direct, indirect, fixed and variable costs
  • calculate break-even-point and security margin
  • describe the various cost calculation methods
  • calculate costs with several methods and compare results
  • understand that cost calculation methods should have been chosen and applied according to specific criteria
  • analyse costs and margin and make decisions on that basis
At the end of part 2 of this course, you should be able to :
  • calculate costs in advance (« forecasted costs »)
  • prepare budgets
  • calculate and analyse variances between actual data and forecasts and take corrective actions
  • facilitate future decision-making
  • be aware of ideas's evolution and notice the trend to go from a purely financial management (or even cost) control towards global and strategic perfomance managament
  • find out relevant KPI's related to objectives for the Balanced Scorecard

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Financial accounting

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

COURSE MATERIALS :

  • POWERPOINT SLIDES (with exemples and small exercises)
  • VIDEOS
  • COURSE BOOK
  • MCQ & ADDITIONAL EXERCISES (without and with solution)
  • CASE STUDIES

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

e-learning

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )

- Remote

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


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Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Association of one or more MOOCs