
ACCOUNTING FOR SPECIAL TRANSACTIONS
This course provides the students comprehensive discussion on inter transactions between home office and branch and reflected in the financial statements. Students are expected to prepare the necessary journal entries to record the above transactions and presentation in the entity’s financial statements. The course discusses the requirements of the financial reporting standards pertaining to construction contracts, consignment arrangements, customer-financing, service contracts, franchising and special revenue-producing transactions.
Strategic Cost Management
This course is
designed to acquaint students with the role of accounting in the management
team by providing and assisting in the analysis , interpretation, and
forecasting of business organizations. It covers the discussion of the
foundation of management accounting; its expanding role, organizational structure,
and professional ethics for management accountants; design of management
accounting systems (e.g., responsibility accounting system), evaluating the
impact of changes in business structure, functions and appropriateness of
management accounting techniques and methods; basic interpretation and use of
financial statements; performance measurement for planning and control such as
marginal, absorption, and opportunity costing, cost behavior, cost volume
profit analysis; quantitative techniques and methods for planning and control.
This course also deals with the application and techniques focusing on segment
reporting, profitability analysis and decentralization, information for
decision making purposes (short term and long term) and nonfinancial indicators
such as productivity per employee or per service unit; decision making
affecting short run operations; pricing of goods and services and environmental
cost accounting.