Maricopa Community Colleges  ACC223   19956-20086 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 07/22/08
ACC223 19956-20086 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
Cost Accounting
Cost accumulation systems and relationships to managerial decision making.
Prerequisites: ACC212 with a grade of C or better, or permission of Department or Division.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
ACC223   19956-20086 Cost Accounting
1. Identify the managerial uses of information about costs and benefits. (I)
2. Explain the factors involved in creating a cost accounting system. (I)
3. Name and describe the methods of classifying costs. (I)
4. Compute the fixed and variable components of costs by different methods. (I)
5. Prepare a manufacturer's statement of cost of goods sold. (II)
6. Perform job order cost accumulation making journal entries and with a cost sheet. (II)
7. Prepare journal entries recording manufacturing costs in a process cost system. (II)
8. Assign costs to by-products by different methods. (II)
9. Allocate joint production costs to joint products by different methods. (II)
10. Define and calculate economic order quantity, the order, point, and safety stock. (III)
11. Describe a just-in-time production system. (III)
12. Explain the theory and applications of incentive wage plans. (III)
13. Define and calculate factory overhead rates. (III)
14. Apply overhead using predetermined rates. (III)
15. Compute and use departmental overhead rates. (III)
16. Compute standard costs and cost variances for materials, labor, and factory overhead. (IV)
17. Prepare journal entries to account for completed products in a standard cost system. (IV)
18. Contrast direct costing and absorption costing. (V)
19. Prepare a break-even chart. (V)
20. Compute the margin of safety and the margin of safety ratio. (V)
21. Compute differential cost and use it to make short-run economic decisions. (V)
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ACC223   19956-20086 Cost Accounting
    I. Cost Concepts and Objectives
        A. Management of costs
        B. Cost accounting information system
        C. Cost behavior analysis
      II. Cost Accumulation
          A. Job order costing
          B. Process costing
          C. Costing by-products and joint products
        III. Planning and Controlling Cost Elements
            A. Materials: controlling and costing
            B. Labor: controlling and accounting for costs
            C. Factory overhead: planned, actual, and applied
          IV. Standard Costing
              A. Setting standards and analyzing variances
              B. Incorporating standards into the accounting records
            V. Analysis of Costs and Profits
                A. Direct costing and cost-volume-profit analysis
                B. Differential cost analysis
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