75982 - Strategic Cost Management Laboratory

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)

Learning outcomes

The course emphasizes the basic theme of “different costs for different purposes,” and reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management.

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

Atrill, P., McLaney E., 2015, Management Accounting for Decision Makers, 8/ed, Pearson

Further readings
Merchant, K. and W. Van der Stede, 2012, Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives, Prentice Hall, 3dr edition

Teaching methods

Slide 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.

Office hours

See the website of Rebecca Levy Orelli