Cost Accounting 3 Units (AA/AS; CSU) 54 lecture hours

Catalog description

The course explores additional cost and managerial accounting topics introduced in managerial accounting. The course provides an in-depth review and analysis of accounting issues related to how managers plan, direct and control operations, support the decision making process with managerial accounting reports, calculate the cost of a company’s product or service, account for and record transactions and events using a job order or process costing system, analyze the breakeven point of a business, compute overhead allocations using activity based costing, describe and compute standard costs and evaluate business investment alternatives using capital investment analysis. This course is designed for someone who plans to enter the accounting or a finance related profession and those furthering their knowledge and understanding of managerial and cost accounting.