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Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Basics of Cost Accounting: Product Costing

The core of the first course is to learn how companies record total costs and calculate unit costs for their individual products or services. For example, how can a car manufacturer figure out the costs of an individual car series? During the first weeks, participants learn what costs are and how to distinguish them from expenses or cash flows. Participants will understand how companies record total costs and distinguish important cost types such as material costs, personnel costs, or depreciation. At the core of their cost-accounting system, companies allocate overhead costs to individual products. We show participants how to allocate the costs incurred to the company's products and introduce them to the most important methods and challenges of product costing.

Status: Operating Expense
Status: Cost Management
BeginnerCourse11 hours

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BM

5.0Reviewed Mar 25, 2024

Excellent Course with specific detailed information, really thank you

KH

5.0Reviewed Mar 5, 2022

Perfect Course.. with very good examples.. you will earn a lot of knowledge the instructor is great. also, they are very responsive in the forum, Thanks to all the instructor's team!

DM

5.0Reviewed May 8, 2023

An insightful course into the basics of cost accounting

AS

5.0Reviewed Jan 13, 2026

pembelajaran yang bagus materi yang mudah dicerna dan di pahami

NK

5.0Reviewed Mar 10, 2022

Great course! Very informative and easy to follow, but still challenging.

SS

4.0Reviewed Dec 23, 2024

Concise and precise. Need to improve on the detailing part (in-depth).

RR

4.0Reviewed Aug 15, 2023

Thank you for the instructors and Coursera for offering this course.

GV

5.0Reviewed Aug 19, 2022

Amazing course! Great professor, and great material

IH

5.0Reviewed Apr 16, 2025

It’s really intellectual course and widely explained every topics required to understand basics of Costing.

SP

5.0Reviewed May 9, 2023

Everything was explained very clearly and it was helpful to use the slides. The practice questions were relevant to the

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