Management Accounting - Sample Assignment

Management Accounting

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................................4
Management accounting system and its requirements in business..................................................4
Methods of management accounting reporting .........................................................................6
1Different techniques of management accounting system...............................................................7
Different planning tools of budgetary control system.......................................................................8
Showing preparation of income statement using various techniques............................................10
Different ways in which various business organisations adopts the management accounting
systems in order to respond numerous financial problems.............................................................11
CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
It is a concept that enables a business organization to plan, organize, monitor and
control each financial activities of the business (van Helden, 2019) It includes analysis of
company’s actual condition and develops effective plans and strategies for the purpose of
helping the company in achieving its set goals and objectives. The present assignment shows
study of an overall management accounting system. It shows the essential requirements of
management accounting system within sent business organization. Further, in the present
study, a brief different description about different methods o management accounting
reporting is also been discussed. The study also shows different planning tools of budgetary
control that helps the managers in their effective management and plan formation
procedure. Furthermore, the assignment also provides information regarding various
management accounting system that help the managers in enabling the company in
developing efficiency of responding to various financial problems.
MAIN BODY
Management accounting system and its requirements in business
Management accounting system
Management accounting system refers to a part of managerial functions that is concerned
with planning, organizing monitoring and controlling a range of financial activities including
all the monitory and non monitory and non monitory transactions that company incurs for
achieving its set goals and objectives.
Adoption of effective management accounting system helps managers in improving their
own efficiency in planning, monitoring and controlling various financial and non financial
activities of the firm along with maintenance of a range of records of firm (Maalouf and El-
Fadel, 2019). In addition, management accounting system also provides various methods
through which managers can provide all material information to stakeholders of the business.
Types of management accounting system
Management accounting systems are of several types. Each type of management
accounting systems are required to be adopted by the business organization due to several
reasons. Major types of management accounting systems and the their essential requirements
within the business are as under:
 Cost accounting system This system of management accounting is helpful in making
the company more cost efficient. The cost accounting is something that provide the method

and set of rules that helps the managers in formulation of effective plans and policies for the
company and making the business more cost efficient and could improve its profitability as
well.
Benefits:
 Adoption of cost accounting system is required in the business in order to develop
cost efficiency in the company.
 It is required for preventing the organisation from cost wastage.
 To determine cost incurred by business in each activity.
 To determine actual cost of a single product or services produced by a company.
 Inventory management system: Inventory management is a system of management
accounting which is being adopted by the company that needs to maintain a huge amount of
stocks with it ( Zhou, 2018). This system helps the managers in maintaining their eyes on
each movement of stock either within or outside the business organization.
Benefits:
 To track each movement in the inventory.
 To identify areas of wastage of inventory.
 To determine the minimum and maximum amount of inventory
required by a business organisation during a specific time period.
 Job costing system: Job costing system contains rules and regarding how the
company should maintain its books of accounts relating to costs incurred by the company in
case it provides customized goods and services to the firm. This system of management
accounting is helpful in determination of cost incurred in each customized product or services
rendered to the customers so that they could set the most appropriate price to be charged from
their customers so that the firm could generate appropriate amount of profit from its sales.;
Requirement
 To maintain effective records of customised products.
 To determine cost incurred by the organisation in producing each unit of
customised product or services.
 To set the appropriate price of product or services to be charged from the
customers.
 Production controlling system: Production controlling system is that category of
management accounting system that helps the managers in having their better control,
monitor and management over production activities of the firm. This technique provides
various methods through which business can maintain record of each production activity of

the organization ( Ayoubi,2018). In this regard, the managers can easily determine the need
of units to be required to produced by the business. Therefore, this method helps in setting the
most appropriate unit to be produced by the firm in a specific period in order to eliminate
chances of insufficiency of products in fulfilling the needs of company and excessive of
products within the business as well. In this order, this technique helps the firm in developing
effective management of production activities of the business organization.
Requirements:
 To maintain records regarding various activities performed by a business for
production purpose.
 To determine the minimum amount to be produced by the company for satisfying
demands of customers.
Methods of management accounting reporting
Management accounting reporting can be defined as a process of analysing each
business transaction and summarising them into a report format in such a way so that they
could provide a detailed information regarding various transactions that a business makes
during performing its business activities within a specific time period.
Methods of management accounting reporting
Methods of management accounting reporting are those that helps in successful
formulation of management accounting reports for the company (Arnold, 2018). The core
methods of management accounting reporting are as under:
 Cash reports: Cash reports are those that contains details about the transaction made
by the company that has affected cash of the company. These reports help the
managers in monitoring the movement of cash in the business. In this regard, these
reports are helpful for managers at the time of framing their policies regarding cash
resources of the firm.
 Production reports: Production reports refer to statement prepared by gathering,
analysing and summarising various activities of the business regarding its production.
Production reports help the managers in determining the overall production of the
company.
 Sales reports: Sales reports are made by a managerial accountant in order to
summarising the transactions regarding overall sales activities of the company. These
reports contain details of unit of sales and revenue generate by the organisation by
selling those units in the market as well. Sales reports are important in the business in
order to maintain appropriate records of total revenue generated by business during a
specific time period.

 Budget reports: Budgets are the statements showing estimated position of the
company. There are various categories of budget reports such as operational budgets,
sales budgets, production budgets, etc. Each budget shows estimated performance o
various departments that is needed to be performed so as to achieve the set goals and
objectives of the company. These reports help the managers in setting short term goals
of the business organisation.
Critical evaluation of management accounting and management accounting reporting
Management accounting and management accounting reporting are two essential
elements of overall managerial functions of a company. Both helps managers in their
effective management and controlling functioning (Duska, Duska and Kury, 2018).
Although, adoption of these systems within a business organisation requires professional
skills of the managers for which company may needs to spend more time and money on
management functions. But along with this, the adoption of these techniques can also result
more effective formulation of plans and strategies for the business in near future. In this
regard, it can be evaluated that a business organisation must adopt management accounting
system and management accounting reporting as it helps the managers in providing positive
results to the business.
1 Different techniques of management accounting system
2 Techniques of management accounting systems:
These are the techniques which are used for making income statements such as Marginal
costing and Absorption costing systems. These methods are adopted by different
organisations in order to form the income statements of the company as they both have
dissimilar met hods for calculating numerous of income statement, production cost is an
example.
Various techniques of management accounting systems can be classified as under
 Marginal costing system: This technique is used for formulation of income
statement for a specific time period of time. This method considers all the fixed cost
incurred while production as a period cost. On the other hand, each variable cost
incurred for the production purpose are being considered as product cost. In this
order, only variable overheads become part of production cost while calculating
profits for the company.
 Absorption costing system: This method considers each costs incurred by the
company for the production purpose as a part of production cost. In this regard, all the
overheads are being taken into account at the time of calculating cost of production of
the company. It is the major reason behind different arisen in the amount of cost of
production and profit generated by the company. Further, due to inclusion of all costs,
this method provides lower amount of profit generated by the company.
Different planning tools of budgetary control system
Budgetary control system

The term budgetary control system refers to a process that includes analysis and
evaluation of the actual position of the company for the purpose of analysing efficiency of the
overall business. Further, it includes analysing the set goals and objectives to be achieved by
the business in its near future. By comparing both the results, the managers become able to
formulate their policies and strategies for the business organisation.
Planning tools for budgetary control system:
Planning tools for the budgetary control system are the tools that help the managers in
preparation of budgetary reports. Fixed budgets, zero based budgets, performance budgets,
operational budgets are some major planning tools of the budgetary control system of the
company. These can be understand as under:
 Fixed budgets: Fixed budgets are those that are being prepared by estimating various
incomes and expenses of the company that could be generated by the managers
irrespective of the number of units produced by the company.
Advantages:
o Fixed budget is not required to be prepared on monthly or daily basis. It is
useful for the business until there is a change in any fixed income or expense
of the business.
o It is an easy task to prepare a fixed budget.
Disadvantages
o Fixed budget does not provide information regarding quantity of units to be
prepared by the business during a specific time period.
 Cash budgets: Cash budget helps the managers in determining various areas in which
the company would need to invest its cash and cash equivalents (Apostolou and et.al.,
2019). In addition, these budgets also shows various sources from which the company
would be able to generate the cash in the future whenever it would be needed. In this
order, this planning tool of the budgetary control system helps the managers in
planning for the maintenance of sufficient amount of cash and cash equivalents of the
company in order to ensure smooth functioning of company.
 Advantages:
 It identifies the amount of cash needed in order to fulfil immediate
 It helps in better budgeting
 It helps in quickly identifying potential deficit
 Disadvantages

 It does not provide flexibility
 It limits our ability to create a credit profit
 It limits our spending power
 Zero based budgets: Zero based budgets are are prepared by starting analysing the
business organisation as a start up company. Managers does not consider any
previously developed budgets for preparing budgets for estimating near future. Rather
they analyses the goals and objectives of the company and developes their plans and
policies accordingly.
 Advantages:
 It make sure of inheritance Expenses
 It identifies outsourcing opportunities
 Disadvantages
 It requires manpower
 It consumes a lot of time
 It is too complex and requires detailed attention
 Performance budgets: Performance budgets are the statements showing estimated
performance of various business departments including managers’ own performance.
Therefore, preparation of performance budgets helps inn estimating overall efficiency
of the firm. Further, its advantages and disadvantages are as under:
 Advantages:
 It provides transparency in budget preparation
 It helps to decrease unnecessary expenses
 Disadvantages:
 It does not provide quantitative information
 It cannot be used for long term planning
Operational budgets: Operational budgets shows financial estimated performance of
the business organisation. It helps the managers in estimation of numerous incomes
and expenses of the company that is needed to be made by the firm in its near future.
In addition, it enables the managers in maintaining sufficient amount of funds so that

company can become able to pay all its debts. furthermore, the operational budgets
also helps in predicting the financial position of the business organisation.
 Advantages:
 It helps in managing expenses
 It helps to increase accountability
 It helps in facing various financial responsibilities
 Disadvantages
 Professional skills of managers are required to make it
 It is an very lengthy process.
Showing preparation of income statement using various techniques
Absorption costing- It refers to method which provides for all the variable and the
fixed cost that are been apportioned to the cost centres.
Marginal Costing- It referred as the technique within which the marginal cost that is
the variable cost is been charged to the units of the cost however fixed cost for a specific
period is entirely written off against contribution.
Particulars formula Per unit cost
Selling price 80000/80000 1
variable cost per unit 52000/80000 0.65
Fixed cost 16000/80000 0.2
Total production cost per unit
variable cost per + fixed cost
per unit 0.85
Marginal costing technique
Quarter 1
Particulars Figures Net figure
Sales 66000
Production (78000 *.65) 50700
Closing stock (12000 * .65) 7800 42900

GP 23100
Less: fixed production cost 16000
Less: selling & distribution
cost 5200
Net profit 1900
Quarter 2
Particulars Figures
Net
figure
Sales 74000
Opening stock (12000*.65) 7800
Production (66000 *.65) 42900
Less: Closing stock (4000
* .65) 2600 48100
GP 25900
Less: fixed production cost 16000
Less: selling & distribution
cost 5200
Net profit 4700
Absorption costing technique
Calculation of cost of goods sold For Quarter 1 under absorption costing
Particulars Details Amount
production cost -
variable cost 50700
fixed cost 15600 66300
Less: closing stock 10200
COGS 56100
Income statement for quarter 1 by applying absorption costing
Particulars Amount Total amount

Sales 66000
less: cost of goods sold 56100
GP 9900
less: S&D 5200
NP 4700
Calculation of cost of goods sold For Quarter 2 under absorption costing
Particulars Details Amount
Opening stock 10200 10200
Add: Production cost :
Variable cost 42900
fixed cost 13200 56100
Less: closing stock 3400 3400
COGS 62900
Income statement for quarter 2 by applying absorption costing
Particulars Amount Total amount
Sales 74000
less: cost of goods sold 62900
GP 11100
less: S&D 5200
Net profit 5900
Interpretation
From the analysis of above calculations it can be interpret that profit derived form
both the technique is different. Absorption costing provides higher amount of profit than
marginal costing in respect of both teh quarters resulting as 4700 and 1900 for quarter 1. On

the other side, 4700 under marginal costing for quarter 2 and 5900 under absorption costing
for quarter 2. This shows that absorption costing is the better technique than marginal costing
because it accounts for both fixed and the variable cost of production which in turn helps in
evaluating accurate profit figures.
Different ways in which various business organisations adopts the management
accounting systems in order to respond numerous financial problems
Financial problems:
Financial problems can be defined as problems that may be faced by a company in
terms of insufficiency of the financial resources like cash and cash equivalents in terms of
making the company to suffer huge loss of cost wastage of the company.
There are some management accounting systems that can be adopted by the managers
in order to help the company in predicting financial problems that may arise in the near future
(de Villiers, Dumay and Maroun, 2019). It also enable the managers in developing the plans
and strategies for the company in such a way so that the company’s ability to face those
predicted financial problems could be developed. Some of the core techniques available for
helping the company in responding to various financial problems are as under :
 Key performance indicators: Key performance indicator is a technique of
management accounting system that unable the managers of a business organisation
in analysing performance of various departments of the firm including their own
performance. This system, managers analyses the actual performance of each
department and compare it with business’ pre estimated performance. In this order,
the managers of the company can effectively evaluate the decline or improvement in
the efficiency in various departments of available in the company.
In this order, the managers of company can formulate their plans and policies
in more effective way so that inefficiency in the departments could be eliminated.
Further, by evaluation of inefficiency in various departments, managers can easily
predict the future financial inefficiency by evaluating consequences of those
inefficiencies in the business.
 Variance analysis; Variance analysis is a technique in which the company analyses,
evaluates and compare it with the budgeted performance of the overall business
organisation. This system is helpful in budgetary control system of the managers.
Comparison of budgeted performance and actual performance of the company helps
in better identification of inefficiencies in the business through which they can
identify and predict various problems that may arise in the near future of the firm. In
this order, managers can detect the financial problems of the business along with its
roots.
Therefore, it can be analysed that variance analysis is an effective technique
that provides effectiveness to manager of the company in detecting the future
problems that may arise in the business (Duska, Duska and Kury, 2018). In this

regard, they can develop more effective strategies for the firm in order to either
eliminate those financial problems or to build ability of the organisation in order to
face those problems in more effective way.
 Benchmarking: As the name suggests, this system says that managers should set
some benchmarks of the departments from a range of departments held by the
business. The managers perform their managerial functions for those set benchmarks
only. All other departments are being simply ignored by the firm. In this order,
adoption of this system reduces burden of working from managers. Therefore, this
system helps in improving efficiency of managers in performing their managerial
functions of the company. Although, this system may result in providing negative
results to the firm in terms of formulation of ineffective plans and policies for the
business. This situation may arise if the departments ignored by the managers for
monitoring and controlling purpose start providing loss to the firm in terms of
inefficient performance.
 Financial governance: Financial governance can be defined as those system of
management accounting that helps the managers of the firm in developing their
effective control and management over various financial activities of the company.
In this order, the financial governance can be defined as more effective technique to
be adopted for the purpose of controlling financial activities of the firm as it focuses
on financial activities performed by the company only. Therefore, it improves the
efficiency of managers in managing financial performance of the organisation. In
order to this, they can detect financial problems in the business more effectively so
and develop their strategies for the elimination of those strategies as well.
On the other hand, as this technique does not take into consideration the non
financial activities of the firm, adoption of financial governance may provide
negative results to the firm.
In this order, it can be evaluated that there are various techniques in management
accounting system that help managers in predetermination of various activities performed by
the company. Variance analysis can be defined as the best technique for the business, as it
enable the managers in detecting inefficiency in a range of departments of organisation along
with the roots of problem. In this regard, this technique can provide much better result as
compare to any other technique such as key performance analysis, benchmarking, etc. As if
the firm adopta benchmarking technique and departments or activities ignored by the
managers become inefficient and starts resulting in loss for the company, the managers will
fail to develop their effective management.
On the other hand, if business adopts financial governance, although the technique
will improve the efficiency of managers in managing financial activities of the organisation,
but as the technique ignores non financial activities, the technique may not be suitable to be
adopted for management purpose.

CONCLUSION
The present study has been concluded that management accounting system is a core
part of overall management activities. It helps the manager in maintaining their more
effective control over various financial and non financial activities of the firm. There are
various tools and techniques available for the business that helps managers in improving their
quality of monitoring and controlling system of firm. Further, there are also some of the tools
of budgetary control system with the help of which managers in improve their effectiveness
of plans developed by them. In addition, there are some management reports with the help of
which managers can maintain their record regarding its all the financial, non financial,
monitory and non monitory activities of the firm. It helps them in maintaining records of
overall business activities and provide all the material information to company’s
stakeholders. The study has also concluded that there are various types of techniques in
management accounting system that helps the managers in detecting various financial
problems that may arise in the business in near future in advance. In this regard, adoption of
these techniques help managers in formulation of more effective plans so that they could
develop ability of the organisation in responding to various financial problems.
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