Applied Management Accounting

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This course advances students' ability to use management accounting to evaluate decisions, businesses, and managers. Students will begin with the idea that management accounting is a dialect within the language of accounting, explore varied types of costs and their relationships to pricing, and then use these concepts to assess decisions, organizations, and performance. Case studies will be used to stress application of management accounting concepts to problems faced in the real-world business environment. Students will use advanced spreadsheet functions and data analytics/visualization tools to further develop their proficiency at using management accounting to evaluate decisions, businesses, and managers. Credit not given for both ACCT 307 (or equivalent) and ACCT 407 . Offered as ACCT 307 and ACCT 407 . Prereq or Coreq: SCMG 433 or ACCT 307L .