Advanced budgeting, cost accounting principles and management reporting techniques for planning, decision-making and control. Includes public sector management accounting processes.
Builds on: 1.4 Introduction to Cost & Management Accounting
Building on Level 1 Cost & Management Accounting, this paper develops the analytical and strategic skills required to support senior management decision-making. Candidates move beyond basic variance analysis to tackle advanced performance measurement frameworks, transfer pricing, life cycle costing, and the behavioural aspects of budgeting. The paper also examines how management information systems generate data for control purposes and the specific management accounting requirements of public sector organisations.
Setting target costs, managing costs over the product life cycle, and value engineering.
Theory of constraints, throughput contribution, and optimising bottleneck resources.
Budget games, budget slack, goal congruence, and the human side of budgetary control.
Balanced Scorecard perspectives, KPIs, and non-financial performance indicators.
Setting transfer prices for goods and services between business units; market-based, cost-based, and negotiated approaches.
Sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and expected value for evaluating capital investment decisions.
ROI, RI, EVA — measuring divisional profitability and their impact on managerial behaviour.
Management Accounting rewards structured thinking. Before calculating, always state what you are calculating and why — examiners give marks for method even when numbers are wrong. Discussion parts often carry as many marks as the calculations.
Management Accountant
Finance Business Partner
FP&A Analyst
Budget Manager
Commercial Finance Manager
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