Cost accounting & calculation

Bachelor

The students
• Are familiar with the tasks and solutions of cost and revenue accounting with its subsystems (cost element, cost center and cost unit accounting).
• Are familiar with key business targets and the associated calculation parameters.
• Are able to understand, differentiate and transfer the terms payments - disbursements, income - expenses, income - expenses, services - costs (BÜB).
• Know the four main principles of cost allocation and can explain them.
• Can describe the organizational structure of a cost accounting system and explain its main features.
• Are familiar with the differentiation and calculation of the most important cost elements (material cost elements, types and composition of personnel costs, imputed cost elements, and so on).
• Can discuss and present the tasks and components of cost center accounting.
• Can create and interpret (simple) operational accounting.
• Know the tasks and types of cost unit accounting and understand the significance of activity-based costing.
• Can apply the different types of costing (overhead and allocation rate costing).
• Can calculate simple projects and personnel hourly rates.
• Can distinguish full costing from partial costing.
• Understand the principle of contribution margin accounting and can use single-level and multi-level contribution margin accounting.

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Part A: Fundamentals of cost and revenue accounting
• Tasks, components, sub-areas and systematization of accounting (ReWe)
• Contribution of (internal) ReWe to business management
• Basic Terms of cost and revenue accounting
• Cost accounting systems

Part B: Cost type accounting
• Tasks and principles, systematization criteria for cost elements
• Recording of the most important cost types: Material, personnel, taxes, etc.
• Importance of imputed costs, conversion of expenses into costs with the works transfer form (BÜB)

Part C: Cost center accounting
• Tasks and principles
• Systematization criteria for cost centers (main and secondary cost centers)
• Operating accounting sheet (BAB)
• Distribution of overhead costs to cost centers
• Internal activity allocation
• Calculation of cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold
• Determination of overhead rates

Part D: Cost object accounting and costing:
• Tasks and contents
• Calculation times and methods

Part E: Contribution margin accounting:
• Full cost versus direct cost accounting
• Fundamentals of contribution margin accounting
• Single-level and multi-level contribution margin accounting
• Important forms of direct costing
• Determination of the break even point and the safety margin

• Friedl, G., Hofmann, C., & Pedell, B. (2022). Kostenrechnung: Eine entscheidungsorientierte Einführung. München: Verlag Franz Vahlen.
• Haberstock, L., & Haberstock, P. (2022). Kostenrechnung / Kostenrechnung I: Einführung – mit Fragen, Aufgaben, Fallstudien und Lösungen. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
• Horsch, J. (2023). Kostenrechnung: Klassische und neue Methoden in der Unternehmenspraxis. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag.
• Schmidt, A. (2022). Kostenrechnung: Grundlagen der Vollkosten-, Deckungsbeitrags- und Plankostenrechnung sowie des Kostenmanagements. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

• Final exam and
• Quiz

German

2

25

1.5

25 % of the event is covered by eLearning. A combination between online phases (inductive method for the independent acquisition of knowledge and the practice of tasks) and presence phases (deductive method, in which assistance is given in the learning process and knowledge is imparted via frontal lectures) is used.

3

RLC 2

integrated lecture

Compulsory

Not applicable