Cost Accounting and Business decision Making Course code: 218030 | 8 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 1
Semester: 1
Requirements:
Goal: Introduce students to the new role of cost accounting, as an internal economy of the company, to define the information for the business decision-making process.
Outcome: Students will be able to:
• understand the competencies and responsibilities of the company's management,
• understand the business decision-making process,
• define information for the management staff,
• define valuable information for business decision making,
• use cost accounting as a part of management accounting.

Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Competencies and responsibilities of the company's management,
  2. Requirements for information for the decision-making process;
  3. Value of information for decision-making,
  4. Incremental analysis (relevant cost approach, marginal analysis, or differential analysis),
  5. The concept of opportunity costs,
  6. Standard and specific information regards costs and effects,
  7. Integration of cost-benefit analysis into the management accounting system.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. 1. Costs, benefits, and value: context, concepts, and approach.
2. Examples of the internal economy of transport operators and other companies.
3. Seminar paper and presentations on examples of transport companies.

Textbooks and References
  1. Milićević, V., Stevanović, N., Malinić, D., „Upravljačko računovodstvo“, Ekonomski fakultet u Beogradu, odabrana poglavlja, Beograd, 2015
  2. Malinić, D., „Računovodstvo troškova“, Ekonomski fakultet, Beograd, 2002.
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 3
Practical classes: 3
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
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activities during lectures
0
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
0
colloquium
0
Final exam
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Written exam
0
Oral exam
0