This course provides an introduction to financial statements, analysis, and cost management. The course objectives are to enable students to gain knowledge of accounting concepts and principles, and to use financial and cost data for planning, decision making, and control. The course covers the conceptual basis of accounting, preparation of financial statements including the income statement, balance sheet, and notes, measuring and reporting assets, liabilities, equity, and financial statement analysis techniques. It also provides an orientation to cost accounting, including the meaning and classification of costs, and cost management techniques like marginal costing and cost-volume-profit analysis.
This course provides an introduction to financial statements, analysis, and cost management. The course objectives are to enable students to gain knowledge of accounting concepts and principles, and to use financial and cost data for planning, decision making, and control. The course covers the conceptual basis of accounting, preparation of financial statements including the income statement, balance sheet, and notes, measuring and reporting assets, liabilities, equity, and financial statement analysis techniques. It also provides an orientation to cost accounting, including the meaning and classification of costs, and cost management techniques like marginal costing and cost-volume-profit analysis.
This course provides an introduction to financial statements, analysis, and cost management. The course objectives are to enable students to gain knowledge of accounting concepts and principles, and to use financial and cost data for planning, decision making, and control. The course covers the conceptual basis of accounting, preparation of financial statements including the income statement, balance sheet, and notes, measuring and reporting assets, liabilities, equity, and financial statement analysis techniques. It also provides an orientation to cost accounting, including the meaning and classification of costs, and cost management techniques like marginal costing and cost-volume-profit analysis.
This course provides an introduction to financial statements, analysis, and cost management. The course objectives are to enable students to gain knowledge of accounting concepts and principles, and to use financial and cost data for planning, decision making, and control. The course covers the conceptual basis of accounting, preparation of financial statements including the income statement, balance sheet, and notes, measuring and reporting assets, liabilities, equity, and financial statement analysis techniques. It also provides an orientation to cost accounting, including the meaning and classification of costs, and cost management techniques like marginal costing and cost-volume-profit analysis.
Decision making is the core function of a manager. A potential manager must be exposed to the skill of sourcing information and make timely and apt decisions. One document that provides ample information for many decisions is ‘Annual Report’. The Annual report, a report prepared by the Management of the company to its owners (the shareholders) informing them about the performance of the company over the preceding financial year, the reasons and analysis for performance, gives adequate information for both insiders of the company and outside stakeholders. However, the big challenge is how to read and understand the report and how to elicit information for making decisions. This course captures the fundamental aspects of financial statements, its analysis and interpretation and techniques for managing cost. COURSE OBJECTIVES - To enable the students gain knowledge about concepts, principles and techniques of accounting - To enable the students use financial and cost data in planning, decision making and control MODULE 1 - Conceptual basis for accounting Introduction – Meaning & definition – Basic framework of accounting – Objectives & purpose of accounting – Users accounting information – Branches of accounting – Financial Accounting Vs Management Accounting. MODULE 2 -Preparation of financial statements GAAP – Accounting concepts & conventions – Accounting equation - Terms and jargons in financial statements – Understanding forms of business organization - Preparation of financial statements of companies : Income statement, Balance sheet, Notes to account – Annual reports and its contents. MODULE 3 - Measuring and reporting assets, liabilities and equity Current assets, Inventory valuation, Cost formulas (AS2) Fixed assets, cost of acquisition (AS 10) Depreciation methods (AS 6)- Liabilities and its classification – Introduction to IFRS Contemporary issues in accounting : HR accounting, Forensic Accounting, Environmental reporting, Corporate social reporting, Target costing, Life cycle costing. MODULE 4 - Financial statement analysis Objectives – sources – quality of earnings – window dressing – Techniques of Analysis : Horizontal, Vertical, trend and ratio analysis - Dupond analysis – Fund flow statement & cash flow statement (Using Excel) MODULE FIVE: ORIENTATION TO COST ACCOUNTING 1 Meaning of Costs, Classification of Costs- mainly based on elements, functions and behavior. Cost Management – Techniques for controlling and reducing cost – Marginal Costing, Cost-volume-profit analysis, Budgetary Control. . REFERENCES 1. Tulsian and Tulsian, “ Financial Reporting”, S.Chand 2. Kishore, M. Ravi, “Advanced Cost Accounting and Cost systems”, Taxmann Publications 3. Ramachandran, and Kakani, “How to Analyze Financial Statements”, Tata McGraw Hill 4. Palat, Raghu, “How to Read Annual Reports and Balance Sheets”, JAICO Publishing House 5. Dash A.P., “Financial Wisdom – Finance for Non-Finance Executives”, Biztantra 6. Narayanaswamy R, Financial Accounting- A managerial perspective, PHI Learning Pvt Ltd 2014. 7. Gupta, Ambrish, “Financial Accounting for Management – An Analytical Perspective”; Pearson Publications 8. Ramachandran and Kakani- Financial Accounting for Management, Tata McGraw Hill. 9. Vijaykumar M P., “First Lessons in Financial Reporting”, Snow White Publications 10. Chandra, Prasanna, “Finance Sense – Finance for Non-finance Executives”, Tata McGraw Hill 11. Agarwal, V. Rakesh, “Systematic Approach to Cost Accounting”, Bharat Publications