Management Accounting

Learning Results

Provide knowledge and understanding of costs and results, and information for planning and control. The
objectives to be achieved are as follows:
A. Framing the Cost Accounting within the broad discipline which is the Management Accounting;
B. To publicize the basic concepts of Management Accounting;
C. To publicize the many ways to classify the different types of costs;
D. Provide a detailed knowledge of the components that make up the overall cost of products;
E. Learn to allocate indirect costs using the method of cost centres.
F. Understand and use the system of activity-based costing (ABC).
G. Through concrete situations, identify the different regimes of manufacture.
H. Provide a detailed knowledge of costing systems stocks;
I. Recognize the relationship between cost, volume and profit;
J. To introduce the concepts and ways of use of standard costs and budgeting and planning process.

Program

I – INTRODUCTION – SCOPE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
II – FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
1 – Costs, expenses and payments, income, revenues and receipts
2 – Objects, and periods of cost units
3 – Classification of costs and revenues
4 – The income statement by function
III – COMPONENTS OF THE COST OF PRODUCTION
1 – Cost of finished production and production in the process of manufacture
2 – Cost of materials
3 – Cost of manpower
4 – Indirect costs of production
5 – Non-industrial costs
IV – CENTERS BASED COSTING
1 – Division of Functional Costs
2 – Cost Centres. Centres Main and Auxiliary
3 – Allocation of costs between Cost Centres
V – ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING (ABC)
VI – SYSTEM OF COST OF PRODUCTION BY ORDER
VII – PROCESS COSTING
VIII – SYSTEMS STOCK
IX – COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS (CVR)
X – COST STANDARDS
XI – THE PROCESS OF PLANNING AND BUDGETING

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Caiado, Pires (2002), Contabilidade de Gestão, 2ª edição, Áreas Editora, Lisboa.
Drury, Colin, (2000), Management and Cost Accounting, 5th ed., Business Press;
Franco, Victor, [et al.], (2005), Contabilidade de Gestão – Volume I, 1ª edição, Editora Publisher Team, Lisboa;
Franco, Victor, [et al.], (2005), Contabilidade de Gestão – Volume II, 1ª edição, Editora Publisher Team, Lisboa;
Garrison, Ray H. e Noreen, Eric W. (2000), Contabilidade Gerencial, 9ª Edição, LTC Editora, Rio de Janeiro;
Hansen & Mowen (2000), Management Accounting, 5th ed., South-Western College Publishing;
Horngren, Charles T., Foster e Datar (2000), Contabilidade de Custos, 9ª Edição, LTC Editora, Rio de Janeiro;
Pereira, Caiano e Franco, Victor (2001), Contabilidade Analítica, 6ª edição, Editora Rei dos Livros, Lisboa;
Artigos e outro material de estudo bem como bibliografia adicional serão distribuídos conforme necessidades
de estudo dos alunos.