Joseph KK Ho's work diary

Management accounting tutorial 2 on Feb 11 2018 Part 1 Review the following videos Actual costing and normal costing Standard costing Quality costing Predetermined overhead rate Part 2 Do exercise on job costing with the following file File "part 2 exercises job costing". Students might be interested in doing a quick revision on the topic of job and process costing with a brief video  1/ video 2 . A few questions here involve the concept of overhead under/ over allocation . Additional briefing on  assignment 1 , if necessary. If time allows, may tackle 1 question on quality costing File "Exercises on quality costing" ** no new topics are to be taught in the tutorial session.

Adv. dip: Mgt Accounting lecture Feb 7 topic agenda  2018 1. Quality costing File name "Part 2 MA notes on quality costs" (2 pages) File name "MA note on quality costing an example" (1 page) File name "Management accounting slides on cost of quality" (2 pages) A slide on the quality costing model ; a slide on types of quality cost ; a slide on the goal of cost of quality (COQ) system . **** You may be interested to also watch an introductory video on costs of quality 2. Basic ideas on standard costing File "Part 4 MA notes on standard costing" (2 pages) File "Part 2 notes on standard costing basic idea b" (3 pages) **** You may be interested to also watch an introductory video on standard costing Also compare standard costing with normal costing by reading the following note: File "MA notes on normal costing basic ideas" (1 page). Also refer to an introductory video on normal costing ; an example of normal cos

Adv Dip Mgt Accounting lecture 3 Jan 31 2018 Topics to cover: 1. Basic ideas on limiting factor analysis for short-term decision-making File name "Part 2 MA notes on limiting factors" File name "Throughput accounting" (7 pages) 2. On activity-based costing (ABC) File name "Part 2 MA notes of ABC" File name "Part 2 Activity-based costing - illustration" File name "MA note on ABC diagram table example" (2 pages) Introductory video 1 ; i ntroductory video 2 ; a specific video on the topic of cost hierarchy . Also on  benefits of using ABC (video) . 3. Part 2 exercises on CVP analysis File name "Part 2 exercise CVP analysis" *** you may be interested to watch a video on CVP analysis before doing the exercise. Another one is on margin of safety .

Adv. D. Mgt Accounting tutorial 1 Jan 28 topic agenda: 1. Process costing and Job costing concepts File "Part 2 MA notes on process costing" (4 pages) File "Part 2 MA notes Basic Job Costing" (4 pages) File "Part 2 notes job costing double entries example" (2 pages) File "Part 2 notes process costing double entries example" (2 pages) * a slide on an example on job costing; an introductory video on job costing; an introductory video on process costing. 2. Basic Overhead accounting (on allocation) File "Part 2: basic overhead allocation ideas" (6 pages). Also refer to an introductory video on overhead allocation; a slide for the basic idea. 3. Briefing on Assignment 1 - Need to also study degree of operating leverage File "Part 2: On degree of operating leverage" (2 pages). Also refer to the video on degree of operating leverage . - Need to have some understanding of the high low method ( video ); also s

Housing Imaginations – Teaching Plan Hong Kong version (Joseph, Kim-keung Ho) ( 2018 Feb - May ) Session # Topics 1 Feb 1 ·       Introduction to Housing Imaginations ·       Briefing on assignment 1 Readings: subject syllabus and assignments 1 and 2 docs; Gregory (1994) Facebook page on housing imagination Ho (2014a) Slides on sociological imagination 1 ; slide 2 ; slide 3 . Slide: sociology and common sense . Slide: Micro and Macro sociology . Slides on geographical imagination: slide 1 ;  slide 2 ; slide 3 . 2 Feb 8 ·       The meanings of place I (General) Reading: Cresswell (2009) A basic description of place ( a slide ). Videos: space and place ; sense of place ; a slide on sense of place ;  placemaking . A case study of tin shui wai (on sense of place) . Famous sign in place (HK): an example . A slide on humanism . Will go through the article of :  Ho, J.K.K. 2014a. “An Endeavor to Establish

Applied Research Methods  teaching plan  (30 hours), Feb-Mar, 2018 : Intake 36 & 37 v (day-time) (JKKH) dated: January 14, 2018 Briefing session (no class provided):  session notes  {re-used notes} Synopsis Form:              due 13 Mar 18, 2018        Proposal:                        due 16 Apr 18, 2018   Dissertation:                  due Jan 19, 2018 Session (3 hours each) Topics Readings/ activities 1.         On research proposal and research methodology O Feb, 27 (Tue): 10am-13:00pm 1.         Nature and skills required for formulating dissertation proposal 2.         Basic nature on research process 3.         Introduction of local university theses portals to access dissertation reports with local contents ·         Saunders  et al . (2012: section 1.2: The nature of research; 1.3: business and management research; 1.4: the  research process). ·         The HKU Scholars Hub (url addr