ACC522

Course Description

This course focuses on the use of accounting information as a tool in the planning and control of business organizations from a management perspective. The orientation of the course is to analyze and evaluate management accounting information from the perspective of senior management using case study. In light of the course description, the primary objective of the course is to provide the necessary framework to understand and be able to apply and use management accounting information. Consistent with this orientation, the list of topics covered in this course includes an overview of managerial accounting; the role and function of accounting information in corporate governance; accounting information as a managerial tool, cost concepts and behaviors, an overview of cost systems; incremental costing and its application for short and long-term decision making; capital and operational budgeting; issues related to effective management control, and financial statements analysis from a manag

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