The Cost and Management Accounting short course is designed to help you better understand the overall costing process and how to effectively determine costs whether in private or public sector entities. As an essential component of financial management, you will gain requisite skills in using cost accounting to advise management on the most cost-effective structures for operative decision making. The course further covers topics of managing funds by means of budgets, the use of management accounting information to make informed and accountable decisions, traditional cost allocation versus activity-based costing, cost-volume-profit relations, as well as absorption, variable, job and process costing.