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Management Accounting - Index


Table of contents
Unit I: Click Here!
1.1: Management Accounting: Meaning; Features; Advantages; Limitations; Scope and Functions of Management Accounting.
1.2: Comparison: Between Management Accounting and Financial Accounting, Between
Management Accounting and Cost Accounting.

Unit II: Click Here!
2.1: Break-Even-Analysis: Concept, Uses and Limitations of Break-Even-Analysis, Margin of Safety, Contribution, Use of P/V ratio for decision making, Cost-Profit-Volume Relationship, Fixed Cost Variation.
2.2: Problems on Break-Even Analysis.

Unit III: Click Here!
3.1: Ratio Analysis: Meaning of Ratio Analysis, Advantages and Limitations of Ratio Analysis
3.2: Problems of Profit and Loss Account Ratio.
3.3: Simple Problems on Balance-Sheet Ratio: Current Ratio; Quick Ratio and Proprietary
Ratio

Unit IV: Click Here!
4.1: Budget: Meaning and Definition of Budget; Characteristics of Budget; Types of Budget.
4.2: Problems on a Cash budget

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5.1: Budgetary Control: Meaning and Definition of Budgetary Control, Objectives of
Budgetary Control; Limitations of Budgetary Control.
5.2: Problems on Flexible Budget.




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