Advanced Cost Accounting as it Relates to Social Services
Create a PowerPoint presentation (approximately 12 minutes, 10–12 slides) showing how a topic covered in the course (below) is connected to a Department of Social Services Finance/HR Department workplace. You should incorporate actual samples from the job site and a narrative explanation of each slide using the presentation notes feature. All materials must be properly cited and quoted in current APA style. All sources must be less than 3 years old.
Topics for consideration include:
- Process Costing
a. Equivalent Units of Production - Job-Order Costing
- Activity-Based Costing
- Balanced Scorecard
- Cost Volume Profit Analysis
a. Break even analysis - A comparison of process costing and job-order costing and how costs flow through the system
- Predetermined Overhead Rate used in the various costing systems
a. Over allocation and Under allocation - Planning and Budgeting
- Pricing
Journals that contain scholarly research articles:
- Accounting: Organizations and Society
- Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory
- Contemporary Accounting Research
- Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Journal of Accounting research
- Review of Accounting Studies
- The Accounting Review