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ACCG20011: Management Accounting

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	University of Bristol
Unit Name	Management Accounting
Unit Code	ACCG20011
Credit points	20
Level of study	I/5
Notes Title	Comprehensive Revision Guide and Course Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	119

If you are studying for ACCG20011: Management Accounting at the University of Bristol, this set of notes gives clear explanations and quick-reference points for the final examination in 2025. You only need a basic foundation to use it, and it highlights the topics to review first. Updated for the current unit, it helps you focus your revision and aim to pass the final on the first attempt.

The unit covers a number of management and cost accounting techniques relevant to managing an enterprise efficiently and effectively. These include budgeting and standard costing to control operations; divisional performance measures and transfer pricing to control divisions; and, techniques for pricing and resource allocation. The unit also includes the techniques of costing, such as absorption costing, marginal costing and process costing. In general, the emphasis is on concepts that underpin management and cost accounting techniques, use of the information generated and the implications of using the techniques.

✔ (Summary) What You'll Learn:

Specific costing techniques, such as activity-based costing, process costing, joint and by-product costing.
Management and cost accounting approaches and techniques for pricing decisions
Management accounting techniques for production planning decisions, such as Key Factor Analysis and Linear Programming.
Management accounting techniques for performance measurement and control, including variance analysis, divisional performance measures and transfer pricing.
The effect of adopting different management accounting styles and techniques on employees’ motivation and action.

To take this unit, you must have completed one introductory accounting course: either Introduction to Accounting (ACCG10052), Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance (ACFI10003), or Accounting and Finance for Managers (EFIM10030) - and one quantitative course - either Mathematical and Statistical Methods (EFIM10008), Quantitative Analysis in Management (EFIM10014), or Mathematics for Economics and Finance (ECON10005).

UNIT CODE	UNIT NAME
ACCG10052	Introduction to Accounting
ACCG20011	Management Accounting
ACFI20001	Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance
ACFI30003	Advanced Corporate Reporting
ACFI30011	Portfolio Management
ACFI30013	Derivatives and International Finance
ECON10001	Economics
ECON10003	Probability, Statistics and Econometrics
ECON10006	Statistical Methods
EFIM10008	Mathematical and Statistical Methods
EFIM10010	Economic Principles
EFIM10015	Introduction to Management
EFIM10028	Risk and Return
EFIM10029	Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
EFIM10030	Accounting and Finance for Managers
EFIM10050	Principles of Economics
EFIM20007	Financial Accounting
EFIM20010	Applied Quantitative Research Methods
EFIM20011	Econometrics 1
EFIM20033	Intermediate Microeconomics
EFIM20036	Econometrics 2
EFIM20038	Microeconomic Analysis
EFIM20042	Corporate Finance and Valuation
EFIM20043	Asset Markets
MATH10013	Probability and Statistics
MGRC10002	Principles of Marketing

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