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Management Accounting Project Guidelines

This document outlines an assignment for a management accounting project. Students will [1] select an industry and develop products/services and a budget for a hypothetical business. They will [2] estimate expenses and incomes for the year. Students will then [3] apply various management accounting concepts like cost allocation as they learn them to further analyze the hypothetical business. The goal is for students to gain experience applying concepts, rather than creating a perfectly accurate project.

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Management Accounting Project Guidelines

This document outlines an assignment for a management accounting project. Students will [1] select an industry and develop products/services and a budget for a hypothetical business. They will [2] estimate expenses and incomes for the year. Students will then [3] apply various management accounting concepts like cost allocation as they learn them to further analyze the hypothetical business. The goal is for students to gain experience applying concepts, rather than creating a perfectly accurate project.

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Assignment for Management Accounting

This is a project to help apply the concepts learnt in Management Accounting to a hypothetical
situation (since live projects and data are hard to come by, unlike in Financial accounting where
data is available on the public domain). The aim is not to have the ultimate, perfect project, but to
have a complex one where the final answer may not be perfect, but the process is well understood.

1. Each group will select an activity/ industry of your choice- this could be a dream activity
you always wanted to do or a family business or even an industry you aim to join. You
may discuss among yourselves and finalize the same.
2. Also discuss and formalize the products/services, the scope of activity and budgeting
period (usually a year). Avoid having a simplistic product line (1 or 2 products). Instead,
DO try to make it more complex in terms of products/services, nature of costs, etc. Things
like number of employees, etc. can also be decided. At any stage, the
estimations/projections will not be considered negatively since the objective is to help
understand the application of concepts and not the accuracy of the raw data in this
hypothetical situation.
3. You will then make a list of the expenses and incomes you estimate for the year, head wise.
It helps to draw up the physical layout of the office/ factory/establishment (again
hypothetical) to help understand the expenses you might incur.
4. The flow of activities/production process would also be very useful if clearly outlined and
pictorially shown.
5. Thereafter, as the sessions go on, you will implement the newly learnt concepts into the
project. For example, when you learn about fixed and variable cost, you would be asked to
relook at the list of costs already mentioned in your project and distinguish them according
to their context.
6. Apply all contexts thereafter such as cost allocation, cost absorption (including creation of
departments/ activities to help in the allocation).
7. After the cost allocation, apply as many concepts are possible, making assumptions as you
go on. Remember, the more complicated it is, the better is the learning. We are not looking
for the perfect end-to-end complete project.
8. Try to introduce Activity based costing as an alternative allocation method into the project,
where possible.
9. The project ends when the cost is absorbed into the product and the project cannot go
further due to lack of complete data. If it is possible, then you can go for job costing too.
10. Components of evaluation:
i. Introduction (context, layout, market segment details, etc.)
ii. Complexity of processes and products (incl process identification)
iii. Detailing of expenses and drivers
iv. Allocation and absorption

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