BUSI 3160U – Advanced Managerial Accounting

This advanced level course develops problem solving skills for internal accounting applications. Topics include: cost concepts and analysis; cost accumulation for product costing and variance analysis; cost analysis for decisions involving alternatives; advanced manufacturing technology and accounting concerns are addressed including activity-based costing; target costing; international approaches to cost management; quality costing; benchmarking; life cycle costing; the balanced scorecard and new performance measures; business strategy and competitive positioning; the value chain and competitor analysis; generic strategies and control systems design; management accounting and e-commerce. Cases and problems are used. A research project is required for this course.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2170U or BUSI 2180U