CIMA P1 - Management Accounting

CIMA P1: Management Accounting

The CIMA P1 exam’s syllabus covers four main areas: costing, budgeting, short-term decision-making, and risk and uncertainty.

A. Cost accounting for decision and control: 30%
B. Budgeting and budgetary control: 25%
C. Short-term commercial decision-making: 30%
D. Risk and uncertainty in the short term: 15%

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Course Curriculum

Demo Lectures
6 Lessons
- About the exam (10:29)
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- Cost classification and graphs
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- CGMA Cost Transformation Model
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- Marginal Costing vs Absorbtion and ABC
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- Relevant Costs
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- Labour Rate Variance (10:05)
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Chapter 1 - Costing
10 Lessons
- 1. What is Management Accounting
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- 2. Role of Management Accountant
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- 3. Costing Definitions
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- 4. Cost classification and graphs
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- 5. High-Low Method
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- 6. Other Types of Costing Systems
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- 7. CGMA Cost Transformation Model
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- 8. Revision of Chapter 1
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Costing
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Chapter 2 - Full cost techniques
17 Lessons
- 1. How to Calculate Cost of a Unit
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- 2. The Logics of Absorbtion costing
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- 2.1. OAR Basic Example
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- 2.2. Value of Closing Inventory
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- 2.3. Different OAR Rates
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- 3. Absorbtion. Reapportionment
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- 4. Absorption Costing. Overview
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- 5. Absorbtion Costing. Under- and Over-apsorption
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- 6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Absorbtion Costing
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- 7. ABC vs Absorbtion costing example
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- 8. ABC Theory
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- 9. Cost pools and cost drivers
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- 10. ABC Benefits and drawbacks
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- 11. Revision Chapter 2. part 1
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- 12. Revision Chapter 2. part 2
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Full Cost Techniques
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Chapter 3 - Marginal cost techniques
26 Lessons
- 1. Marginal costing. Example
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- 2. Marginal Costing PnL
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- 3. Marginal Costing. Important definitions
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- 4. Marginal Costing vs Absorbtion and ABC
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- 4.1. Absorption Costing PL
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- 4.2. Marginal Costing PL
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- 5. Full Cost Pricing
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- 5.1. Question Practice Full Cost Pricing
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- 6. Marginal Cost Pricing
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- 6.1. Marginal cost plus pricing
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- 7. Profit margin vs Mark-up
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- 8. Bottleneck logics
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- 9. Throughput definitions
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- 9.1. Question Practice Throughput Profit p1
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- 9.2. Question Practice Throughput Profit p2
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- 9.3. Question Practice Throughput Profit p3
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- 10. The Logics of Throughput
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- 11. Dealing with Constraints
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- 11.1. Question Practice Bottleneck
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- 11.2. Question Practice Maximising throughput
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- 12. Measures in Throughput Accounting
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- 13. Decisions Based on Throughput
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- 13.1. Question Practice Decisions Based on Throughput
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- 14. Revision Chapter 3
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Marginal Cost Techniques
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Chapter 4 - Rationale for budgets
11 Lessons
- 1. Rationale for Budgeting
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- 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Budgeting
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- 3. Incremental Budgeting
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- 4. ZBB
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- 5. ZBB Advantages and Disadvantages
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- 6. Rolling Budgets
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- 7. ABB
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- 8. Beyond Budgeting
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 8. Revision Chapter 4
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- Quiz - Rationale for Budgets
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Chapter 5 - Budgeting concepts
25 Lessons
- 1. Budgeting Concepts. Main definitions
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- 2. Master Budget and Operational Budgets
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- 3. Impact of Inventory
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- 4. Cash Budget
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- 4.1. Question Practice Cash Budget - Receipts
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- 4.2. Question Practice Cash Budget - Payments
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- 5. Forecasting. High-Low Method
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- 6. Forecasting. Linear Regression
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- 7. Types of Correlation
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- 8. Coefficient of Correlation, Coefficient of Determination
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- 9. Limitations of Linear Regression
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- 10. Time Series Analysis
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- 11. Advantages and Disadvantages of Time Series Analysis
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- 12. Forecasting Problems
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- 13. How to Improve Budgeting
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- 13.1. Question Practice. How to Improve Budgeting. Sensitivity
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- 13.2. Question Practice. How to Improve Budgeting. Stress Testing
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- 14. Big Data
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- 14.1. Big Data Example
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- 15. The Use of Big Data
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- 16.1 Revision Chapter 5, p1
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- 16.2 Revision Chapter 5, p2
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- 16.3 Revision Chapter 5, p3
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Budgeting Concepts
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Chapter 6 - Short - term decision making
21 Lessons
- 1. Absorption vs Marginal Costing in Decision Making
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- 2. Relevant Costs
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- 3. Non-Relevant Costs
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- 4. Relevant Cost of Inventory
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- 5. Relevant Cost of Labour
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- 6. Relevant Cost of Machinery
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- 7. Relevant Cost of Overheads
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- 8. Accounting Principles and Decision Making
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- 9. Accept vs Reject and Minimum Price
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- 10. Make vs Buy
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- 11. Make vs Buy - Other Factors
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- 12. Cost to Discontinue
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- 12.1. Cost to Discontinue p1
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- 12.2. Cost to Discontinue p2
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- 13. Further Processing Decisions
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- 14. Short-Term Decisions. Other Factors
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- 15.1 Revision Chapter 6 p1
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- 15.2 Revision Chapter 6 p2
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- 15.3 Revision Chapter 6 p3
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Short Term Decision Making
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Chapter 7 - Models for decision making
11 Lessons
- 1. CVP Cost Volume Profit Analysis (9:33)
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- 2. Level of Activity Required (5:44)
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- 3. Breakeven chart (8:09)
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- 4. Multiproduct Breakeven (6:57)
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- 5. Multiproduct Breakeven Chart (6:56)
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- 6. Limitations of Breakeven Analysis (5:00)
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- 7. The Use of Data and Technology (9:25)
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- 8.1 Revision Chapter 7 p1
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- 8.2 Revision Chapter 7 p2
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Models for decision making
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Chapter 8 - Limiting factor analysis
12 Lessons
- 1. Limiting Factor Analysis (16:28)
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- 2. Shadow Price (3:44)
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- 3. Throughput vs Limiting (13:37)
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- 4. The Need for Linear Programming (7:09)
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- 5. Graphs in Linear Programming (14:49)
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- 6. Simultaneous Equations (5:30)
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- 7. Sumaltaneous Equations and Shadow Price (9:29)
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- 8. Assumptions and Limitations of Linear Programming (6:21)
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- 9.1 Revision Chapter 8 p1
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- 9.2 Revision Chapter 8 p2
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Limiting factor analysis
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Chapter 9 - Risk and uncertainty in decision making
15 Lessons
- 1. Risk and Uncertainty (16:16)
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- 2. Types of Decision Makers (4:41)
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- 3. Minimax Regret Rule (7:16)
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- 4. Why Variability is Important (4:45)
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- 5. Standard Deviation (3:50)
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- 6. Coefficient of Variation (4:38)
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- 7. Perfect Information (7:55)
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- 8. Joint Probabilities (7:01)
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- 9. Decision Trees (17:30)
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- 10. Sensitivity Analysis Example (11:08)
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- 11. Sensitivity Analysis Theory (3:46)
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- 12. Sensitivity Analysis. Further Examples (15:29)
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- 13. Other Techniques to Deal with Uncertainty (3:03)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Risk and uncertainty in decision making
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Chapter 10 - Budgetary control
9 Lessons
- 1. Fixed vs Flexible vs Flexed Budgets (8:06)
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- 2. Responsibility Accounting (11:25)
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- 3. Controllable Costs (8:19)
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- 4. Feedback Control (5:07)
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- 5. Feedforward Control (3:51)
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- 6. Behavioral Problems of Control - P1 (8:03)
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- 7. Behavioral Problems of Control - P2 (13:11)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Chapter 10 - Budgetary control
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Chapter 11 - Standard costing and variance analysis
30 Lessons
- 1. About Variance Analysis
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- 2. Definitions
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- 3. Standards
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- 4. Impact of Inflation
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- 5. Standards at NFPO and Serivce Companies
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- 6. Important Notes on Variances
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- 7. Material Variances (5:37)
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- 8.1 Question Practice Material Variances - P1
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- 8.2 Question Practice Material Variances - P2 (5:22)
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- 9. Labour Rate Variance (10:05)
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- 10. Labour Efficiency and Capacity Variance (11:44)
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- 11. Variable OHD Variances (10:06)
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- 12. Fixed OHD Variances (5:07)
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- 13. Question Practice. Fixed OHD Variances (17:22)
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- 14. Sales Variances (5:43)
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- 15. Question Practice. Sales Variances (9:15)
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- 16.1. Question Practice. Budget and Flexed Budget - P1 (13:38)
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- 16.2. Question Practice. Actual and Variances - P2 (7:48)
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- 16.3. Question Practice. Materials and Labour Variances - P3 (9:57)
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- 16.4. Question Practice. Fixed and Variable OHD Variances - P4 (4:41)
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- 16.5. Question Practice. Sales Variances and Overall Result - P5
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- 17. Marginal Costing Operating Statement (6:23)
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- 18.1. Question Practice. Fixed OHD Variances - P1 (13:45)
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- 18.2. Question Practice. Sales Variances and Overall Result - P2 (6:05)
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- 19. Absorption Costing Operating Statement (3:39)
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- 20. Working Backwards (4:56)
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- 21. Causes of the Variances
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- 22. When to Investigate Variances
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Standard costing and variance analysis
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Chapter 12 - Further variance analysis
12 Lessons
- 1. Sales Volume Variance Analysis (6:57)
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- 2. Sales Mix. Individual Units Method (7:26)
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- 3. Sales Mix, Weighted Average Method (9:39)
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- 4. Methods Comparison (4:53)
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- 5. Sales Quantity Variance (7:57)
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- 6. Sales Quantity Variance - Different Method (4:36)
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- 7. Benefits of Sales Mix and Quantity Variances (8:32)
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- 8. Planning Variances (5:02)
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- 9. Planning Variances and Several Changes (6:41)
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- 10. Benefits and Drawbacks of Planning Variances (3:57)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- Quiz - Further variance analysis
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