85264 - Strategic Cost Management Laboratory

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)

Learning outcomes

This laboratory aims at having participants understand the use of financial budgets, strategic costing, the impact that activity based costing, marginal costing and full costing have on profit.

Course contents

Introduction to management accounting
Relevant costs and benefits for decision making
Cost–volume–profit analysis
Full costing
Costing and cost management in a competitive environment
Budgeting
Accounting for control
Making capital investment decisions
Performance evaluation and pricing in a competitive environment
Measuring divisional performance
Managing working capital

Readings/Bibliography

Materials prepared by the instructor

Teaching methods

Slides and cases

Assessment methods

Grading will be based on a combination of written exam and execrises by team. The grading percentages are as follows:
- Written exam
- Team exercize

In case of non-attending students, grading will be based only on written exam.

Teaching tools

Slides and cases

Office hours

See the website of Epameinondas Katsikas

SDGs

Decent work and economic growth Sustainable cities Responsible consumption and production

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.