5006570: Cost Accounting

Qualifications

• • Know the most important costing methods and basic types of decision-making processes.
  • Understand the most important systems of cost accounting, explain the operating modes of full costing and marginal costing, explain the theoretical basics of decisions, describe the most important calculation processes.
  • Calculate operational transfer forms, cost allocation sheets, calculations, contribution margins mathematically and graphically, Break-Even-Points, Cash flow zones, profit zones, management success.
  • Analyze business transactions, take decisions on effectiveness and efficiency of gradual contribution margin calculation, analyze Break-Even-Points and contribution margin zones, exercise deviation analyses.
  • Develop new cost allocation sheets and holistic contribution margin systems, construct overall positions in profit/loss-graphs.
  • Evaluate production processes and assess their advantageousness, asses the advantageousness of entrepreneurial decisons, such as make-or-buy decisions, capacity expansions, lower price limits, acceptance of additional orders, optimal production in one bottleneck etc.
• • Reproduce basic types of cost accounting techniques, present different types of costs, cost centers and cost objects.
  • Explain and interpret the assumptions of these models.
  • Apply basic models in the field of cost accounting in new situations, calculate Break-Even-Points as measures for risks and opportunities.
  • Compare alternative forms of production and forms of sourcing, identify similarities.
  • Capture the concepts of calculation in cost accounting, as well as the evaluation through budget figures.
  • Assess, whether particular valuation models are applicable in certain situations and choose appropriate models in ideal-typical situations.
• • Understand the oral presentation by the lecturer (input, questions and solutions) and pay attention to the remarks of their fellow students.
  • Operate partly in partner work on solutions to exercises given by the lecturer, as well as in group work within self-study.
  • Assess suggestions for solutions by fellow students, evaluate their own approaches to solutions (ability to criticize).
  • Distinguish themselves through capacity for teamwork, communication skills and cooperation skills.
  • Represent and justify their own suggested solutions during criticism by the lecturer or fellow students (ability to accept criticism).
• • Perceive their own learning ability and willingness to learn.
  • Communicate independently, reflect on their own behaviour and carry out an appropriate self-assessment.
  • Take on responsibility through self-discipline, flexibility and target orientation.
  • Are characterized by their full commitment, duteousness and reliability.
  • Represent their independence and self-motivation and thereby positively influence their determination to be top performers.