ACCA-F5-Performance Management-Detailed Live class Recorded

About this course

The aim of the Performance Management is to develop knowledge and particularly skills in the application of Management Accounting techniques to quantitative and qualitative information for planning, decision making, performance evaluation, and control. Syllabus area AThe syllabus begins by focusing on the information needs, technologies and systems required by organisations to manage and measure performance in the modern, competitive environment. It is vital for an accountant to understand how information systems and developments in technology influence the management accounting techniques employed and how vital information systems are in the mechanisms of managing and controlling an organisation.Syllabus area BThe syllabus then moves on to introducing more specialised management accounting topics. There is some knowledge assumed from MA, primarily overhead treatments using absorption and marginal costing. The objective here is to ensure students have a broader background in management accounting techniques. Again, the emphasis is on the implications of the calculations, not just the calculations themselves.Syllabus area CThe syllabus then considers decision making. Students need to appreciate the problems surrounding scarce resources, pricing, and make-or-buy decisions, and how these problems relate to the assessment of performance. Risk and uncertainty are a factor of real-life decision making; students need to understand risk and must be able to apply some basic methods to help resolve the risks inherent in decision making.Students should never forget that management accounting provides information partly so that decisions can be made. This area of the syllabus is important and will be a rich source of future questions.Syllabus area DBudgeting is an important aspect of many accountants’ lives. The syllabus explores different budgeting techniques and the problems inherent in them. The behavioural aspects of budgeting ar

Course objectives

• develop skills in management accounting
• appreciate the role of technology in performance management
• enhance decision-making capabilities regarding scarce resources and pricing