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MA lecture chapter headings

LLevi6y ago
Hi, I have just started studying for my MA exam and I am a bit stuck trying to match the OTT lectures to the syllabus. Could you help me by clarifying which chapter goes with which topic, i.e chapter 1 - 4 is management information Chapter 1 Accounting for Management [18m] Chapter 2 Sources of data [13m] Chapter 3 Presenting Information [11m] Chapter 4 Cost classification part 1 [14m] Cost behaviour part 2 [21m] Chapter 5 Ordering and accounting for inventory [24m] Chapter 6 Inventory Control (part 1) The EOQ Formula [24m] Inventory Control (part 2) Quantity Discounts [11m] Inventory Control (part 3) – Economic Batch Quantity [15m] Inventory Control (part 4) – Reorder Level [16m] Chapter 7 Accounting for labour [24m] Chapter 8 Accounting for overheads part 1 [23m] Accounting for overheads part 2 [16m] Accounting for overheads part 3 [20m] Chapter 9 The Management Accountant’s Profit Statement – Absorption Costing [27m] Chapter 10 The Management Accountant’s Profit Statement – Marginal Costing [28m] Chapter 11 Process Costing – Introduction [11m] Chapter 12 Process Costing (part 1) – Normal or Expected Losses [12m] Process Costing (part 2) – Abnormal Gains and Losses [25m] Chapter 13 Process Costing – Work-in-progress (part 1) [15m] Process Costing – Work-in-progress (part 2) [26m] Process Costing – Work-in-progress (part 3) [16m] Chapter 14 Process Costing – Joint Products [27m] Chapter 15 Job, Batch, and Service Costing [10m] Chapter 16 Alternative cost accounting There is no lecture for this chapter – please read the lecture notes Chapter 17 Budgeting part 1 [9m] Budgeting part 2 [20m] Budgeting part 3 [21m] Budgeting part 4 [13m] Chapter 18 Behavioural aspects of budgeting [5m] Chapter 19 Semi-Variable Costs (part 1) High Low method [13m] Semi-Variable Costs (part 2) Regression analysis [21m] Semi-Variable Costs (part 3) The correlation coefficient [16m] Chapter 20 Time Series Analysis [36m] Chapter 21 Index Numbers [30m] Chapter 22 Measures of average and dispersion [29m] Averages [18m] Measures of dispersion [31m] Chapter 23 The Normal distribution [41m] Chapter 24 Simple Interest, Compound Interest [16m] Discounting, Annuities, Perpetuities [26m] Chapter 25 Investment Appraisal – NPV, IRR [26m] Investment Appraisal – Payback period [13m] Chapter 26 Variance Analysis (part 1) [24m] Variance Analysis (part 2) [22m] Variance Analysis (part 3) [17m] Variance Analysis (part 4) [7m] Variance Analysis (part 5) [7m] Chapter 27 Performance Measurement Overview There is no lecture for this chapter – please read the course notes Chapter 28 Financial Performance Measurement – Profitability Measures [16m] Financial Performance Measurement – Liquidity Measures [22m] Chapter 29 Non-financial performance measurement [27:11] Chapter 30 Divisional Performance Measurement [16m] thank you
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor6y ago#1
Chapters 1 to 4. However I don't really know why you are trying to match them to the syllabus. Our free notes (and lectures) may have the topics in a different order (because it is more logical), but they cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
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