Checking date: 06/05/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Management Accounting
(17633)
Bachelor in Management and Technology (Plan: 486 - Estudio: 351)


Coordinating teacher: NUÑEZ NICKEL, MANUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Introduction to Accounting
Objectives
Knowledge: - To learn the main instruments of management accounting for the decision making - To understand the utility and scope of these tools - To apply the instruments to any new firm - To analyze and evaluate the results obtained through these models (causes and consequences) Skills: - Ability to make decisions - To achieve the result by autonomous ways. - Flexibility to fit the different models to the business reality Attitudes: - Ethical behavior in Accounting
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction to the management accounting 2. Basic concepts 3. Income statement types (Absorption and variable costing) 4. Cost-Volume-Profit analysis 5. Pricing decisions (Target costing) 6. Budgets (Operational and Financial)
Learning activities and methodology
Students as future decision maker managers will be users of management accounting standars. In this way, the target of this course is train students to analyze and understand the informs on costs of products, sections, responsibility areas, etc. Students at the end of this course will know the targets, basis of management accounting systems, characteristics of their design and different types of uses in planning and control. The methodology of teaching-learning for applying has three components: 1) Learning development through theory classes given by the lecturers. 2) Technical skills development through exercises solving by the student, and explained and discussing in the classroom. 3) Solution and problems detection skill through the resolution of cases (exercises without unique or numerical solution).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Horngren, Datar and Foster. Cost Accounting: A managerial focus. Prentice Hall. 2014
  • Horngren, Datar y Foster. Contabilidad de Costos. Prentice Hall. 2015

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.