Management Accounting Report: KEF Ltd Analysis and Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of management accounting principles, focusing on a case study of KEF Ltd, a UK manufacturing company. The report begins by defining management accounting and its benefits, differentiating it from financial accounting, and exploring various management accounting systems like inventory management, cost accounting, and price optimization. It then delves into managerial reporting aspects, including inventory reports, budget reports, accounts receivable aging reports, and cost reports, evaluating their integration within organizational processes. The core of the report involves computing net profit using both absorption and marginal costing methods, highlighting their differences. Furthermore, it examines different planning tools used in budgetary control, analyzing their advantages, disadvantages, and applications, while also addressing how financial problems can be responded to using these tools. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of management accounting in strategic decision-making and financial management within KEF Ltd.

Management Accounting

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
Explaining management accounting systems along with its benefits of different systems.........3
Presenting methods used for managerial reporting aspects.........................................................4
Critically evaluating how management accounting systems and reporting is integrated within
organizational process.................................................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
Computation of net profit by employing absorption and marginal costing.................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
Explaining the advantages and disadvantages of different planning tools used in budgetary
control..........................................................................................................................................9
Analyzing the usage and application of different planning tools used in budgetary control....11
Exhibits the manner in which financial problems can be responded.........................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Management accounting emphasizes on analysing business cost and operations with the
motive to prepare appropriate financial reports. In the recent times, business unit lays high level
of emphasis on undertaking management accounting tools with the motive to manage internal
financial operations effectually. By undertaking MA tools firm can develop competent strategic
and policy framework for the upcoming time period. This report is based on the case scenario of
KEF Ltd which is involved in UK manufacturing sector. In this, report will provide deeper
insight about management accounting tools and techniques that can be undertaken by KEF Ltd.
Further, it also presents how managerial reporting can be used for the purpose of decision
making. Report will develop understanding about how absorption and marginal costing system
can be used for analysing profitability aspects. It also entails how MA tools can be employed for
the purpose of planning and budgetary control. Besides this, it will shed light on the manner in
which monetary problems can be responded using management accounting tools.
LO1
Explaining management accounting systems along with its benefits of different systems
Management accounting (MA) can be defined as a technique or a process which is used
by organisations in order to facilitate their business in the aspect of recording the transactions
that are taking place and the other activities that facilitate the operational activities in an
organisation (Agrawal and Cooper, 2017). Management accounting helps the accountants,
mangers and other financiers working in a business in ascertaining the costs that are incurred or
will be incurred in the business by using various tools and techniques and further, management
accounting also assists in controlling or minimising such costs that are pre-determined so that
unnecessary expenditure can be avoided.
Purpose of MA
 It helps in doing planning about future with regards to setting budget that contributes in
cost reduction and profit maximization.
 MA also provides high level of assistance in identifying gaps that take place in existing
performance and thereby helps in taking appropriate actions for improvement.

 In addition to this, the main motive of MA is to ensure liaison between personnel and
higher management team. Moreover, MA focuses on providing employees with optimal
solution regarding problems assessed.
Difference between financial and management accounting
Basis of difference Management accounting Financial accounting
Meaning It assists management team in
making effectual decision
about business.
This field of accounting
emphasizes on classifying,
analysing, recording and
summarizing monetary affairs
of the company.
Scope Wide Narrow in comparison to
management accounting
Measures Focuses on analysing both
qualitative and quantitative
data set.
Presents aspects pertaining to
quantitative facts and figures.
Basis of decision making MA takes input from financial
accounting with the motive to
take appropriate decisions.
Historic information is
considered as basis for the
purpose of decision making.
There are different types of tools through which management accounting system can be
adopted in an organisation and in KEF, each management accounting system has its own benefits
that can be listed out in following manner:
Inventory Management System: The inventory management system is implemented in a
business so that the stock level i.e. the inventory of a company can be maintained. It keeps tracks
of the inventory that is purchased and consumed along with the inventory that is in stock i.e. the
consumed stock and the remaining stock (Eldenburg, Krishnan and Krishnan, 2017). All these
techniques helps in ensuring that there is no excess or shortage of the inventory and it is
maintained in the right quantity so that it does not block funds unnecessarily as well. There are a

variety of techniques that can be used such as FIFO (First In First Out), LIFO (Last In First Out),
EOQ (Economic Order quantity) etc. LIFO deals with the earliest of consumption of the latest
stock that is in the warehouse and FIFO uses the older stock first and then the latest one. EOQ on
the other hand deduces a reorder level or point at which a particular quantity of goods should be
reordered so that the production of the company can keep running. For KEF, the best strategy
would be EOQ method since it ensures that the funds i.e. the working capital of the company
does not gets blocked unnecessarily and the stock is made available at all times.
Advantages Disadvantages
 Ensures uninterrupted production
activities
 It also helps in reducing storage as well
as ordering cost and thereby increases
profitability
 For dealing with inventory
management systems business unit
needs to conduct training session. This
in turn imposes cost in front of the
company.
 Time consuming process
Cost Accounting System: This technique of cost management helps the management in
ascertaining the cost that will be incurred on order to manufacture a particular product and also
determines whether it will be profitable or not to manufacture this product (Lopez-Valeiras,
Gomez-Conde and Naranjo-Gil, 2015).
Advantages Disadvantages
 Helps in avoiding wastage, losses and
inefficiencies
 Assists in identifying reason related to
profit or loss generated
 Ensures cost reduction and profit
maximization
 This accounting system leads problem
related to under or over absorption
 Time consuming exercise as it requires
maintenance of many costing records

Job costing: There are many techniques under cost accounting system such as job costing
or process costing or standard costing. Job Costing helps in determining the cost that will be
incurred in the manufacturing or completion of a particular task or job rather than of the entire
company. Similarly, standard costing is used to set up a benchmark or standard of the estimated
cost and process costing helps in determining the cost of the entire process and activities
involved in the manufacturing process. For KEF, the best strategy would be adopt all costing
systems so that they can be used effectively in different areas.
Advantages Disadvantages
 Assists in ascertaining profitability
associated with each job
 Offers basis for estimating cost of
similar jobs
 Expensive because more clerical work
required
 Due to having more clerical changes
pertaining to error occurrence is also
high.
Price optimisation system: This MA system is highly significant which in turn provides
high level assistance in identifying the extent to which demand varies at different price level.
Hence, by using such system firm can assess prices which helps in improving profit to a great
extent.
Advantages Disadvantages
 Facilitates setting of appropriate
pricing framework
 Enables firm to enhance customer base
by providing products or services to the
customers at a suitable prices.
 Expensive software
 In the absence of having skilled
personnel firm would not become able
to take appropriate decision using price
optimization system.

Presenting methods used for managerial reporting aspects
Management reporting involves preparation of the documents that depict all the data pertaining
to the management accounting and financial statements of a company (Soderstrom, Soderstrom
and Stewart, 2017). There are four broad categories of reports that are prepared under
management accounting i.e.:
Inventory Report: This report helps in managing the input and output of the stock that is
required in the company and also helps in determining the consumption that is taking place.
However the major assistance is that it reduces the maintenance cost and it also helps in
determining the portion of working capital that is being implemented in the inventory of the
company ensuring that it not in excess. This helps in formulating different budgets that are
necessary in the important decision making of the company.
Budget Report: Budget report involves allocation of the resources that are available
within a organisation on different expenditures that are to be made and then ensuring that this
cost allocation is complied as strictly as possible (Sands, Lee and Gunarathne, 2015). These
standard costs thus developed are then compared to the actual costs that were incurred and the
reasons behind the deviations, if any between the standard and actual are tried to be analysed and
ascertained. Such analysis helps in identifying what are the inconsistencies and by removing
these, the managers are able to utilise their resources in a more fuller and efficient manner. Such
budgets can be prepared as per the requirements but usually they are for a particular time interval
ranging from a year to a quarter.
Accounts Receivable Ageing Report: Under this report, the managers try to categorise
the receivables of the company based on their probability of repayment (Nielsen, Mitchell and
Nørreklit, 2015). Through this report, the managers try to develop a balance where the ratio of
these receivables is kept neither too high nor too low in order to void the risk if incurring bad
debts. This assists the companies in determining a limit up to which they can sell the goods on
credit so that the credit can be monitored and regulated thus minimising the overall chances of
incurring losses. Therefore, this part of management accounting report comprises of an integral
part in the decision making and policy making in the company.
Cost Report: This report deals with all kinds of costs that are incurred in operating a
business i.e. the cost that is incurred in the various production stages that a company goes

through. Under this, a comparison is made between the past and current costs that were incurred
so that a trend analysis can be established which assists the managers in deciding whether such
increase or decrease in cost is beneficial or not (Endrikat, Hartmann and Schreck, 2017). This
also points out if there is need of any specific policies that are to be implemented and there are
various techniques such as Job Costing etc. that can be used in these report’s preparation.
Critically evaluating how management accounting systems and reporting is integrated within
organizational process
From evaluation, it has identified that aspects of management accounting and reporting
are highly integrated with each other. Moreover, management accounting systems clearly entails
the manner through business unit can ensure effectual management of costing, stock and
profitability aspects (Otley, 2016). Further, report furnishes information about the extent to
which each department is performing in a well manner. Thus, by making assessment of reporting
aspect management team of KEF ltd can ascertain areas where extra efforts need to be made.
Thus, by taking significant measure on the basis of reporting management of KEF ltd can
achieve organizational goals and objectives.
LO2
Computation of net profit by employing absorption and marginal costing
Marginal costing- It means ascertainment through differentiating in between the fixed
and the variable cost of the marginal cost and an effect of the profit changes in respect of type
and the volume of an output (Ray and Gramlich, 2015). Marginal costing method is been used
for analyzing and interpreting cost data in order to determine product’s profitability, department,
process and the cost centre.
Absorption costing- It is referred to the method of accumulating cost attached with the
process of production and in apportioning them to the individual product (Konopczak and Welfe,
2017). It is the costing technique that is needed by an accounting standard for creating valuation
of an inventory which is stated in the balance sheet of an enterprise.
Difference between marginal and absorption costing

Absorption costing Marginal costing
Under this method fixed cost as well as
variable cost are been considered as a part of
product cost.
However, in this costing method, variable cost
is only counted as the product cost while the
fixed cost is been assumed as period cost.
In this the overheads are seen as quite different
that includes production, selling, distribution
and administration etc.
On this hand, in this the nature of the
overheads involves variable and the fixed
costs.
It focuses on determining the cost of each and
every single unit.
It emphasizes on identifying the cost of next
unit.
The main objective of this tool is to show an
accuracy and the fair treatment in relation to
the product cost.
The main purpose of this method is to assess
the contribution per unit in the product cost.
Statement of profit & loss for June in accordance with marginal costing method:
Particulars Cost per unit
Absorption costing Marginal costing
Direct material 15 15
Direct labour 25 25
Variable production
overhead 10 10
Fixed production
overhead 130000/20000 6.5
Total cost 56.5 50
Scenario 1: When production is 20000 units and closing inventory is 2000 units

Particulars Number of units Price per unit
(in £)
£ £
Sales revenue 20000 70 1400000
Prime cost
Opening stock 0 50 0
Add: production 22000 50 1100000
Less: closing
inventory
100000 1000000
Contribution 400000
Less: fixed
production
expenses
130000
Profit 270000
Profitability statement as per absorption costing for the month of June is enumerated below:
Particulars No of units Price per unit
(in £)
Amount (in £) Amount (in £)
Sales 20000 70 1400000
Less: Cost of
sales
Opening stock 0 56.5 0
Add: production 22000 56.5 1243000
1243000
Less: inventory 2000 56.5 113000 1130000

at the end of
period
Profit 270000
Scenario 2:
 Production = 19000 units
 Closing inventory = 1000 units
P&L for June as per absorption costing method
Particulars No of units Price per unit
(in £)
Amount (in £) Amount (in £)
Sales 18000 70 1260000
Less: COGS
Inventory at the
beginning of
period
0 56.5 0
Add: production 19000 56.5 1073500
Less: closing
stock
1000 56.5 56500 1017000
Profit 243000
Less: under
absorption
13000
Reconciled
profit with
marginal
230000

costing
Profitability statement for June (marginal method)
Particulars No of units Price per unit
(in £)
Amount (in £) Amount (in £)
Revenue 18000 70 1260000
Prime cost
Opening stock 0 50 0
Add: production 19000 50 950000
950000
Less: closing
stock
1000 50 50000 900000
Contribution 360000
Less: fixed
production
expenses
130000
Profit 230000
Working notes:
Particulars Figures (in £)
Fixed overhead absorbed on 18000 units 18000 * 6.5
= 117000