This course is for managers or students who want a quick overview of cost accounting and who are not accountants.
What Is Cost Accounting?
Cost accounting is a form of managerial accounting that aims to capture a company's total cost of production by assessing the variable costs of each step of production as well as fixed costs, such as a lease expense.
KEY TAKEAWAYS from this course
Cost accounting is used internally by management in order to make fully informed business decisions.
Unlike financial accounting, which provides information to external financial statement users, cost accounting is not required to adhere to set standards and can be flexible to meet the particular needs of management.
Cost accounting considers all input costs associated with production, including both variable and fixed costs.
Types of cost accounting include standard costing, activity-based costing, lean accounting, and marginal costing.
Cost Accounting vs. Financial Accounting
While cost accounting is often used by management within a company to aid in decision-making, financial accounting is what outside investors or creditors typically see. Financial accounting presents a company's financial position and performance to external sources through financial statements, which include information about its revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities. Cost accounting can be most beneficial as a tool for management in budgeting and in setting up cost-control programs, which can improve net margins for the company in the future.
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I am a Professor of Management Accounting and Control Management with over thirty-five years of experience teaching accounting to college students, undergraduate and MBA university students as well as CMA candidates seeking to earn their Professional Certified Management Accountant Designation.
I earned the Certified Management Accountant Designation 40 years ago. With that I then earned my Master of Business Administration degree and later a Ph.D. in accounting. I also have earned the Certified Quality Auditor certification.
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