Principles of Managerial Accounting
Assignment
Type: Individual or Group
Words: 1500 words for individual or 2800 or 4200 words for a group of two or three members, respectively.
Presentation: Both hardcopy and softcopy should be presented on the due date. The hardcopy should handle to me and the softcopy to the Turnitin (as software to check out the plagiarism)by the due date. The instruction for how to submit to the Turnitin will be provided you later through my web space. Submitting only one copy (either hardcopy or softcopy) results a zero mark for this assignment.
Weight: 15% of total assessment
Required Questions or Topics
First of all, you should find company or companies in UAE and then choose only one of the following topics to analysis and write in regard to that company for purpose of the assignment.
1. How are the management accounting departments effective in planning, controlling, and decision making activities in UAE companies? 2. How do management accountants (MAs) in UAE analyze and classify different types of costs into fixed, variable, relevant, irrelevant, committed, discretionary, direct vs. indirect, avoidable vs. non-avoidable costs and apply them to in different decision making situations? 3. Do MAs in UAE apply or use any technique to estimate or predict different classes of costs? 4. What is the role of budgeting in the planning, control, and resource allocation process in UAE companies? 5. Do MAs use standard costing and variances analyze techniques resulting from application of standard costing or not? 6. How do MAs use cost information for short-term decision-making purposes? 7. Any case of capital budgeting projects using different methods of analysis the projects (i.e. NPV, IRR, etc) by any company in UAE. 8. How do MAs uses accounting information for pricing good and services? 9. Do MAs use traditional costing or activity-based-costing (ABC) methods and how do they