Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Cost Accounting Specialization
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Cost Accounting Specialization

Accelerate your Career in Cost Accounting. Use cost accounting tools and improve your business decisions.

Gunther Friedl
Eline Schoonjans
Peter Schaefer

Instructors: Gunther Friedl

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4.7

(133 reviews)

Beginner level

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1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to allocate the costs incurred to the company's products and the most important methods product costing.

  • How companies use cost information to calculate their profit or loss and assess their profitability.

  • How to use information from cost accounting to improve managerial decision-making.

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Specialization - 3 course series

Basics of Cost Accounting: Product Costing

Course 110 hours4.6 (116 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to make your company's cost structure transparent and how to record and calculate costs.

  • You will learn methods of product costing, i.e., how companies calculate costs of their products and services.

  • You will learn to decide which product costing system is most suitable for your company’s production program and production type.

  • You will learn how to determine overhead rates for the allocation of overhead costs to products.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cost
Category: Cost-type accounting
Category: Service costing
Category: Cost-center accounting

Cost Accounting: Profit and Loss Calculation

Course 23 hours4.6 (58 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • You will learn different methods of preparing an income statement.

  • You will learn to explain why different methods yield different profit numbers.

  • You will learn to choose the best-suited method for your decision situation.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Income Statement
Category: Contributin-margin accounting
Category: Absorption and variable costing

Cost Accounting: Decision Making

Course 38 hours4.9 (41 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • You will learn methods that help to figure out how costs will behave if you adjust produced or sold quantities.

  • You will learn how cost information can support business decisions best.

  • You will learn to distinguish costs that are relevant for business decisions from costs that are irrelevant.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cost-volume profit analysis
Category: Cost Functions
Category: Cost behavior
Category: Operative Decisions

Instructors

Gunther Friedl
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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