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Managerial Accounting & Analytics

Course #: MBA AF 612, Class #: 6744, Section #: 01

Description

This course covers the principles, techniques and challenges of strategic cost management and analytics. You will learn concepts and techniques that accountants and managers use to make planning and control decisions. This course revisits a few topics from Accounting for Managers (MBA AF 610), and builds upon this foundation to consider a number of traditional and contemporary topics such as job costing, allocation of support department costing, process costing and spoilage issues, cost allocation of joint products and byproducts, cost volume-profit analysis, activity-based costing and management, and performance measurement. The course includes a semester-long project designed to help students get some hands-on experience with managerial and cost accounting data collection and analysis.

Prerequisites

MBA AF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management

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