Performance Management (PM)

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Free Performance Management (PM) revision notes for ACCA students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

A. Management information systems and data analytics

B. Specialist cost and management accounting techniques

  • Activity-based costing

  • Target costing

  • Life-cycle costing

  • Throughput accounting

  • Accounting for environmental and sustainability factors

C. Decision-making techniques

  • Relevant cost analysis

  • Cost-volume-profit analysis (CVP)

  • Limiting factors

  • Pricing decisions

  • Make-or-buy and other short-term decisions

  • Dealing with risk and uncertainty in decision-making

D. Budgeting and control

  • Budgetary systems and types of budget

  • Analytical techniques in budgeting and forecasting

  • Standard costing

  • Material mix and yield variances

  • Sales mix and quantity variances

  • Planning and operational variances

  • Performance analysis

E. Performance measurement and control

  • Performance analysis in private sector, public sector and not-for-profit organisations

  • Divisional performance and transfer pricing

  • Specific performance analysis issues in not-for-profit organisations and the public sector

F. Employability and technology skills

  • Use computer technology to efficiently access and manipulate relevant information

  • Work on relevant response options, using available functions and technology, as would be required in the workplace

  • Navigate windows and computer screens to create and amend responses to exam requirements, using the appropriate tools

  • Present data and information effectively, using the appropriate tools

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