BUSI 4180U – Advanced Managerial Accounting

This course develops problem solving and decision-making skills for managerial 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 control; 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; responsibility accounting and organizational architecture. Cases and problems are used. Students are expected to apply their quantitative tools when analyzing case and problem situations.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3180U with a grade of C or higher.