Management Accounting MAThe MA ACCA paper (formerly the ACCA F2 exam) will assess your knowledge of key management and cost accounting techniques. The main purpose of this syllabus is to develop knowledge as well as the understanding of the principles and techniques for the students used in recording, analyzing and reporting costs and revenues for internal management purposes. It covers management information, costing techniques, and cost recording, budgeting and performance measurement.Course overview

Management Accounting MA ACCA Applied Knowledge paper (formerly the ACCA F2 exam) will assess your knowledge of key management and cost accounting techniques. The main purpose of this syllabus is to develop knowledge as well as the understanding of the principles and techniques for the students used in recording, analyzing, and reporting costs and revenues for internal management purposes. It covers management information, costing techniques, and cost recording, budgeting and performance measurement.

Structure of ACCA MA paper:

The management accounting exam comprises of two sections to test your knowledge of the MA/ACCA F2 syllabus. Section A contains 35 objectives questions. for two marks each which cover the whole ACCA F2 syllabus. Section B of the management accounting paper contains three multitask questions for 10 marks which will test your knowledge of budgeting, standard costing, and performance measurement.

CHAPTER 1: Management Information

CHAPTER 2: Cost Classification and Behavior

CHAPTER 3: Materials

CHAPTER 4: Managing Inventory

CHAPTER 5: Labour and Overheads Costs

CHAPTER 6: Absorption and Marginal Costing (Contribution Theory)

CHAPTER 7: Costing for Jobs, Batches, and Services

CHAPTER 8: Process Costing, Joint Products and Further processing

CHAPTER 9: Alternative cost Accounting Methods

CHAPTER 10: Sampling Techniques and Expected Values

CHAPTER 11: Forecasting Cost and Revenues

CHAPTER 12: Time Series Analysis

CHAPTER 13: Index Numbers

CHAPTER 14: Spreadsheets

CHAPTER 15: Investment Appraisal Techniques

CHAPTER 16: Budgeting

CHAPTER 17: Behavioral Aspects of Budgeting

CHAPTER 18: Data Analysis and presenting Information.

CHAPTER 19: Standard Costing and Variance Analysis

CHAPTER 20: Performance Measurement