COURSE

AC320 – Cost Accounting

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Deals with the application of statistical tools and decision models to accounting data for the purpose of facilitating managerial control.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Provide Students with the proper tools necessary to analyze financial data for the purpose of making managerial decisions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the way managers use accounting information to create value in organizations.

2. Distinguish between the uses and users of cost accounting and financial accounting information.

3. Explain how cost accounting information is used for decision making and performance evaluation in organizations.

4. Identify current trends in cost accounting.

5. Understand ethical issues faced by accountants and ways to deal with ethical problems that you face in your career.

Understand ethical issues faced by accountants and ways to deal with ethical problems that you face in your career.

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COURSE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK AND READINGS

Fundamentals of Cost Accounting - With CD, Lanen; Anderson; Maher;

ISBN : 978-1-259-72886-0; Edition - 5^th (17); Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education