Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE ACC1914

 
TITLE Accounting and Financial Control

 
UM LEVEL 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Accountancy

 
DESCRIPTION Objectives:

To provide students with a suitable background in financial accounting and to acquaint them with the fundamentals of cost accounting.

Content:

- The users and uses of accounting information;
- The accounting equation and the double entry system;
- The trial balance;
- The errors not disclosed by the trial balance;
- Accounting concepts & accounting standards;
- Accounting for period-end adjustments;
- The preparation of final accounts for Sole Traders;
- The final accounts of Limited Liability Companies;
- Control accounts;
- Calculating the profit when records are incomplete;
- Financial Accounting and Cost/Management Accounting;
- The elements of cost;
- Direct and indirect costs;
- Manufacturing accounts;
- Fixed, variable, semi-fixed, and semi-variable costs;
- Cost-Volume-Profit (break-even) analysis and its limitations.

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES This study-unit is only offered at the Gozo centre.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Examination (2 Hours) SEM1 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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