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This post contains the Principles of Cost Accounting and recommended textbooks of the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
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WAEC Principles of Cost Accounting
Aims and Objectives
The aims of this examination are to test candidates’ ability to
- assemble, analyze and ascertain the cost of producing and procuring goods and services;
- develop skills for using Cost Accounting as a tool for assisting management with information needed for planning, control and decision making;
- show awareness of the economic use of resources through costing techniques;
- demonstrate knowledge of basic methods of presenting cost statements.
Scheme of Examination
There will be two papers, Papers 1 and 2, both of which will be a composite paper to be taken at one sitting.
PAPER 1: Will consist of fifty multiple-choice objective questions all of which must be answered within 1 hour for of 25 marks.
PAPER 2: Will consist of nine essay-type questions. Candidates will be required to answer five questions within 2 hours for 75 marks.
]The paper will consist of two sections, Sections A and B as follows:
- Section A: Theory of Principles of Cost Accounting – four questions will be set and candidates will be required to answer two of them for 15 marks each.
- Section B: Practices of Principles of Cost Accounting – five questions will be set and candidates will be required to answer three of them for 15 marks each.
WAEC Syllabus for Principles of Cost of Accounting
- Introduction To Cost Accounting
- Characteristics of a Good Costing System
- Cost Classification and Types f oCost
- Elements of Cost
- Materials
- Labour
- Overheads
- Costing Methods
- Job/Batch Costing
- Contract Costing
- Service Costing
- Process Costing
- Costing Techniques
- Marginal and Absorption Costing
- Break-even Analysis
- Budgeting And Budgetary Control
- Standard Costing
- Cost of Accounting
Recommended Textbooks
- Cost Accounting – by Harper, W.M – Published by Pitman Publishing Ltd.
- Cost Accounting – by T. Lucey Published by DPP Publications Ltd
- Weldon’s Cost Accounting – Published by Macdonald and Evans Ltd. – by Owler, L.W.J and Brown, J.L
- Principles of Cost Accounting for – Published by Longmanfor the
- Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana Ministry of Education, Ghana (1991).
- Cost Accounting – by Drury, Colin – Published by Professional Heinemann Publishing.
B. OTHER SUGGESTED LOCAL TEXTS /PAMPHLETS/JOURNALS IN GHANA
- Costing Made Easy – by Kingsford Opoku (Kings Series)
- Costing for ‘U’ – by Barnabas Dadzie (C for ‘U’ Series).
- Cost Accounting for Senior HighSchool – by Williams Asamoah Appiah (AKI-OLA Series)-AKI-OLA Publications, Accra
