B.Com (Programme), Semester V, DSC-5.3
Management Accounting
19 answers across 2 recent sittings.
- answers
- 19
- papers
- 1
- topics ranked
- 14
Every topic, every paper
2 papers from 2024 to 2025, older syllabus included. Open a topic for its marks paper by paper.
- Cost-volume-profit analysis2/2
- Key factor and product-mix decisions2/2
- Management accounting: nature and scope2/2
- Relevant costs and decision making2/2
- Responsibility accounting2/2
- Absorption and marginal costing2/21 as OR
- Fixed and flexible budgets2/21 as OR
- Material and labour variances2/21 as OR
- Overhead and sales variances2/21 as OR
- Divisional performance: ROI and residual income2/22 as OR
- Budgeting and budgetary control1/2
- Functional budgets1/2
- Standard costing1/2
- Cost control and cost reduction1/21 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
- 1adds +1515
- 2adds +1530
- 3adds +1545
- 4adds +1560
- 5adds +969
Subtotal, 5 topics69 of 90 marks
Then these3 to 9 marks each
- 6adds +4.573.5
- 7adds +4.578
- 8adds +381
- 9adds +384
- 10adds +387
- 11adds +390
Total, 11 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 15 h 36 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.
Turn it into a day-by-day planQuestion by question
The topics each question has asked in the 2 current-syllabus papers (December 2024 to December 2025).
Question 1
- Divisional performance: ROI and residual income, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Management accounting: nature and scope, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Responsibility accounting, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Cost control and cost reduction, asked in 1 of the 2 papers
Question 2
- Fixed and flexible budgets, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Budgeting and budgetary control, asked in 1 of the 2 papers
- Functional budgets, asked in 1 of the 2 papers
Question 3
- Material and labour variances, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Overhead and sales variances, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Standard costing, asked in 1 of the 2 papers
Question 4
- Absorption and marginal costing, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Cost-volume-profit analysis, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
Question 5
- Key factor and product-mix decisions, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
- Relevant costs and decision making, asked in 2 of the 2 papers
AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot asked