37995 - Crash Course in Financial and Management Accounting

Learning outcomes

This crash course is an introductory course covering Financial Accounting and Management Accounting. Together the two components of the course provide a broad-based foundation of accounting and help understand the role it plays in a modern business.

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to

• Interpret primary financial statements;
• Understand how the accounting information can be used to make economic decisions;
• Understand costs behaviour for planning, controlling and decision making processes;
• Apply simple managerial accounting tools.

Course contents

The course will cover the following subject areas:

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Class 1: Basic double entry bookkeeping, introduction to statement of profit and loss and statement of financial position (cap. 2-3)

Class 2: Accruals, prepayments depreciation, bad and doubtfull debts (cap. 3-4)

Class 3: Company finance, company accounts, statement of cash flows (cap. 5-6-7)

Class 4: Interpreting financial statements. capital structure and investment ratios (cap. 8-9)

Class 5: Exercises

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

Class 6: Costs and break-even analysis (cap. 10)

Class 7: Absorption costing (cap. 11 – ignore Activity based costing)

Class 8: Budgeting and variance analysis (cap. 12)

Class 9: Pricing and costs, Short-term decision making (cap. 13-14 – ignore Transfer pricing)

Class 10: Exercises

Readings/Bibliography

Carey, Mary, Knowles, Cathy and Towers-Clark, Jane (2017) Accounting - A Smart Approach, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198745136

Additional readings may be delivered in class

Teaching methods

Lectures and interactive learning excercises

Assessment methods

written exam - 2 hours

Evaluation: pass/fail (no mark)

NB: if you fail both the main and deferred exams, the exam of “Business Models in Creative Industries” will include questions assessing your competences in Financial and management accounting.

Office hours

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