BTEC International Level 3 Business

Unit 13: Cost and Management Accounting — assessment criteria

Learners study cost and management accounting and its involvement with financial planning, controlling, monitoring and evaluation of business costs and revenues.

Internal60 GLH14 criteria4 learning aims
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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

7 criteria
A.P1Categorise and explain different types of costs and costing methods in given scenarios.
A.P2Produce accurate absorption and marginal cost statements for given scenarios.
B.P3Calculate sub and overall variances in given scenarios using standard costing.
C.P4Explain how budgeting is used in a selected business for financial planning and control.
C.P5Prepare accurate subsidiary and master budgets in a given scenario.
D.P6Apply investment appraisal methods to alternative capital investment proposals in given scenarios.
D.P7Explain how non-financial considerations affect capital investment proposals.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Assess the appropriateness of absorption and marginal costing techniques used for decision making, in given scenarios.
B.M2Analyse the reasons for the variances in given scenarios.
C.M3Assess the viability of the completed budgets in a given scenario.
D.M4Analyse the results of the capital investment appraisal for decision making.

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Make justified recommendations to improve the financial performance of the business in the given scenarios.
BC.D2Evaluate the usefulness of costing and budgetary control systems to the business.
D.D3Evaluate the long-term capital investment proposal, taking into account both financial and non-financial considerations and formulate a set of appropriate and relevant recommendations.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

CategoriseProduceCalculateExplainPrepareApplyAssessAnalyseMakeEvaluate
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Learning aims

  • A. Explore absorption and marginal costing techniques for decision making
  • B. Carry out standard costing and variance analysis statements
  • C. Explore budgets for financial planning and control
  • D.

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