B.Com (Hons), Semester V, DSC-5.3

Management Accounting

32 answers across 2 recent sittings.

Start with December 2025
answers
32
papers
2
topics ranked
13

Every topic, every paper

2 papers from 2024 to 2025, older syllabus included. Open a topic for its marks paper by paper.

Topic2425Papers
  1. Budgeting and budgetary control2/2
  2. Cost-volume-profit analysis2/2
  3. Functional budgets2/2
  4. Responsibility accounting2/2
  5. Key factor and product-mix decisions2/21 as OR
  6. Management accounting: nature and scope2/21 as OR
  7. Material and labour variances2/21 as OR
  8. Overhead and sales variances2/21 as OR
  9. Fixed and flexible budgets2/22 as OR
  10. Absorption and marginal costing1/2
  11. Cost control and cost reduction1/2
  12. Divisional performance: ROI and residual income1/21 as OR
  13. Relevant costs and decision making1/21 as OR

AskedOnly as an OR choiceNot askedCurrent-syllabus paper

Study order

Learn the topics in this order. Each one shows the marks it adds to a 90-mark paper on top of the topics above it, from the 2 current-syllabus papers (December 2024 to December 2025). An OR choice counts once.

Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more

  1. 1
    Cost-volume-profit analysisQ4, Q58 past questions, 3 h 45 m
    adds +2727
  2. 2
    Material and labour variancesQ32 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +1845
  3. 3
    Fixed and flexible budgetsQ22 past questions, 1 h 30 m
    adds +1560
  4. 4
    Key factor and product-mix decisionsQ53 past questions, 1 h 48 m
    adds +969
  5. 5
    Management accounting: nature and scopeQ13 past questions, 1 h 21 m
    adds +978

Subtotal, 5 topics78 of 90 marks

Then these3 to 9 marks each

  1. 6
    Responsibility accountingQ13 past questions, 1 h 21 m
    adds +4.582.5
  2. 7
    Cost control and cost reductionQ11 past question, 27 m
    adds +4.587
  3. 8
    Budgeting and budgetary controlQ23 past questions, 39 m
    adds +390

Total, 8 topics90 of 90 marks

Pick one of each pair

The first topic only comes up as the OR choice against the second, so one of the two is enough.

Doing every question in the order once, at exam pace, takes about 12 h 39 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.

Turn it into a day-by-day plan

Question by question

The topics each question has asked in the 2 current-syllabus papers (December 2024 to December 2025).

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot asked