Essential Accounting Skills for Emerging Leaders

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This course covers activity-based costing, budgeting, flexible budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimating, and the costs of outsourcing. Students are also introduced to topics including standard costing, variance analysis, responsibility accounting, and performance evaluation. There is also some focus on cost terminology (the wide variety of costs), cost behavior, cost systems, and the limitations concerning the use of average costs. This course teaches students how to extract and modify costs in order to make informed decisions.