Accounting for Managers

Catalog description

Examines the process of preparing, analyzing, and interpreting financial statements with emphasis on how the resulting information is then used by managers within the firm as well as investors and creditors outside the firm. Students will interpret financial statements to extract information about the organization's goods, services, and functions and use that information to organize resources, develop and implement plans, and evaluate the effectiveness/efficiency of plans and operations. Students will also analyze financial statements from the perspective of investors or creditors basing investment and/or lending decision on the information contained therein.