Managerial Accounting – BUS 5110: Learning Materials
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Learn Managerial Accounting
Course Overview
Accounting information is a key tool for communicating about an organization’s economic status and for making informed decisions. The course will emphasize the role of accounting information in monitoring, planning, controlling and decision-making. It will focus on the managerial uses of accounting information and provide students with an understanding of how managers use accounting information to analyze and evaluate operational performance, including what data to collect, how to gather it, how to display it for efficient decision making. Specific skills acquired will be identifying fixed and variable costs, leading to the ability to calculate break-even points; calculating the present value of cash streams leading to the ability construct capital budgets; constructing flexible budgets for manufacturing uses; nonroutine decision methods; and financial trend analysis for financial statement interpretation.
Preparation Resources
- An Introduction to Business, K. Collins, (2012) Available for reading online at https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/an-introduction-to-business-v1.0.pdf
- Managerial and Cost Accounting, L. M. Walther & C. J. Skousen (2009).� Available for reading online at
http://www.bookboon.com/
Managerial Accounting – BUS 5110 - Course Schedule and Topics:
Week 1: Unit 1 – Review of Basic Accounting
Week 2: Unit 2 – Cost Flows: Job Order, Process Costing, and Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Week 3: Unit 3 – Cost Analysis Models: Unit Costs, Break-even Analysis, and Cost-Volume-Profit
Week 4: Unit 4 – Differential Analysis
Week 5: Unit 5 – Statement of Cash Flows (SOCF)
Week 6: Unit 6 – Budgets: Operations, Flexible, and Cash Flow Budgets
Week 7: Unit 7 – Capital Budgets and Interpreting Financial Statements
Week 8: Unit 8 – Financial Ratios, Trend Analysis & Course Wrap-up