ACC 203 - Managerial Accounting Credits: 4 4 Lecture Hours
Prerequisites: ACC 104
Description Utilization of accounting information for purpose of managerial control and decision-making. Topics include an analysis of financial statements and accounting reports, cash flow analysis, cost- volume-profit analysis, cost accounting concepts, and budgeting as tools for planning control. Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Evaluate financial information from a managerial viewpoint.
- Utilize cost-related information in designing a cost control system.
- Prepare and analyze budget information.
- Prepare and interpret cash flow statements.
- Interpret information gained when analyzing financial statements.
- Perform various cost-volume-profit analysis including breakeven analysis.
Listed Topics SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students will be able to:
- Evaluate financial information from a managerial viewpoint.
- Utilize cost-related information in designing a cost control system.
- Prepare and analyze budget information.
- Prepare and interpret cash flow statements.
- Interpret information gained when analyzing financial statements.
- Perform various cost-volume-profit analysis including breakeven analysis.
PLANNED SEQUENCE OF TOPICS OR LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
Mandatory Topics:
- Cost-volume-profit analysis
- Budgets
- Variances
- Managerial accounting concepts
- Principles and terminology
- Job order cost system
- Process cost system
- Cash flow statement
- Ratio analysis
- Capital investment analysis (discounted cash flows)
- Differential analysis
Optional Topics:
- Product Pricing
- Just In Time Inventory
- Activity-Based Costing
- Economic Order Quantities
- Decentralized Operations
Reference Materials Current textbook.
Supplementary materials such as working papers, study guides, videos, handouts, library resources.
Optional:
Wall Street Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Value Line, Moody Industrial, Standard and Poors,
and other Accounting and Business periodicals Approved By: Sutin, Stewart Date Approved: 01/13/2005
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