Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions
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About this course: In this course, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors in using these resources. You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the role of managerial accounting information in common business decisions • Differentiate relevant and irrelevant information • Avoid common pitfalls in business decisions • Prepare a master budget and its key components • Describe the iterative and interrelated nature of budgeting • Evaluate capital investments via a variety of measures • Understand how upper management uses variance analysis • Calculate, interpret, and investigate variances • Understand decentralization and its advantages and disadvantages • Compute and interpret financial performance measures • Communicate the role of non-financial measures and strategic performance measurement systems • Identify issues associated with performance measurement and incentives • Understand the nature and role of subjective performance evaluation This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
Created by:Â Â Â University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taught by:Â Â Â Â Gary Hecht, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Accountancy
Department of Accountancy, College of Business
Basic Info
Course 2 of 7 in the Value Chain Management Specialization.
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 6-8 hours/week
Language
English
How To Pass
Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
Course 2 of Specialization
Master Value Chain Analysis. Acquire critical business management competencies to create, measure, and maximize value.
Value Chain Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Course Overview and Relevant Information for Decision Making
In this module, you will become familiar with the course, your instructor, your classmates, and our learning environment. Decisions are at the heart of all organizations. In this module, you will also explore the nature and role of relevant information in comm...Â
17 videos, 7 readings, 4 readings
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Graded: Module 1 - Conceptual Quiz
WEEK 2
Budgeting for Planning and Control
At the heart of an organization’s planning and control function is its budget. In this module, you will explore the purpose of budgeting, the role of managers and employees in budgeting, and related implications. You will also develop an organization’s budget,...Â
25 videos, 2 readings, 4 readings
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Graded: Module 2 - Conceptual Quiz
WEEK 3
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
After establishing goals, setting targets, and the budget, upper management uses variance analysis to compare, assess, and investigate differences between actual and expected performance. In this module, you will learn how upper management uses variance analys...Â
13 videos, 2 readings, 3 readings
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Graded: Module 3 - Conceptual Quiz
WEEK 4
Performance Measurement and Evaluation
Accountants help implement, communicate, and evolve organizational strategy via the information they provide to owners, managers, and employees. Specifically, they help plan, monitor, and control decisions via the performance measurement, evaluation, and compe...Â
13 videos, 2 readings, 3 readings
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Graded: Module 4 Quiz