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Prerequisites: ACCT 110 Financial Accounting

Corequisites: None

Advisories/Recommendations: None

Pedagogical Approach

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Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Identify and illustrate the primary activities and information needs of managers and explain the role of the managerial accountant as a member of the management team; compare and contrast financial and managerial accounting;
• Define and illustrate various cost terms, concepts, and behaviors, and evaluate their relevancy for different decision-making purposes;
• Distinguish between product and period costs and prepare and evaluate a Schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured, Schedule of Cost of Goods Sold, and Income Statement;
• Prepare traditional and contribution margin income statements and define related terms;
• Explain cost-volume-profit analysis, degree of operating leverage, and safety margin and employ each as an analytical tool;
• Describe the traditional types of product costing systems (including job-order and process), illustrate the flow of costs in each, and prepare related accounting records and reports;
• Discuss the impact of technology on the business environment, its implications for product and service costs, and the development of activity-based costing and management;
• Explain the purposes of budgeting, prepare a master budget and its component schedules, and relate the budget to planning and control;
• Explain the development and use of standard costs and flexible budgets, prepare and interpret variance analysis reports and relate them to responsibility accounting and control;
• Explain the nature of and need for segment reporting and the relationship with cost, revenue, profit, and investment centers; prepare and analyze related segment reports;
• Compare and contrast absorption costing and variable costing, prepare income statements using both methods, and reconcile the resulting net incomes;
• Define relevant costs and benefits and prepare analyses related to special decisions;
• Explain the nature of capital expenditure decisions and apply and evaluate various methods used in making these decisions; including the time value of money and
• Identify the ethical implications inherent in managerial accounting and reporting and be able to apply strategies for addressing them.

Assessment

• Problem-solving exercises;
• oral and written assignments;
• quizzes and examinations, which include problem-solving, essay and/or analysis interpretation and presentation.

Topics included in the course, such as job order costs systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, activity based costing, capital budgeting, investment decision making, will be assessed using multiple methods, as described.

Other Information

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