Managerial Accounting

This course focuses on identifying and interpreting information regarding the planning and evaluating of a business' financial performance. It also covers measuring the costs of goods or services and analyzing business expenses.

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$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

Managerial Accounting

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

About This Course

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ACE Approved 2023

The Managerial Accounting online course focuses on the identification, gathering, and interpretation of information for planning, controlling, and evaluating the performance of a business.

What You'll Learn

Compare and contrast between managerial accounting and financial accounting and assess how managerial accounting affects various management functions.

Discuss ethical standards in an organization and assess their role in the field of managerial accounting.

Define cost and distinguish between product costs and period costs.

Analyze the fundamental manufacturing cost categories and diagram the flow of product costs in a manufacturing operation.

Describe job-order costing system and evaluate its suitability in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms.

Describe process costing and evaluate the suitability of process costing in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms.

Compare and contrast traditional volume-based costing system and activity-based costing system.

Interpret cost behavior patterns to estimate costs and assess the need for contribution approach to income statements.

Graph CVP relationships and compute the break-even point using the contribution-margin and equation approach.

Determine the criteria that decide the relevance of a cost or a benefit and explain the concepts of sunk costs, opportunity costs, and unit costs.

Describe the key decision areas in capital budgeting and explain the concept of time value of money.

Describe the elements of a budgeting framework and assess the need for a budgeting framework in an organization.

Describe the various ways to set performance standards and assess the role of performance standards in cost management.

Explain the role of responsibility accounting in achieving set goals and list the responsibility centers.

Describe the key decision areas in capital budgeting and explain the concept of time value of money.

Determine the criteria that are used in determining and making pricing decisions.

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Course Details

ACC150

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Managerial Accounting

Study concepts like the measurement of the costs of producing goods or services and learn how to analyze and control these costs. Our Managerial Accounting course also analyzes managerial accounting principles and systems through process and job order costing.

Prerequisites

It is suggested, though not required, that students take Accounting I and Accounting II or its equivalent before enrolling in Managerial Accounting.

Topic Subtopics
Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment
  • What Is Managerial Accounting?
  • Managerial Accountants in an Organization
  • Ethics in Managerial Accounting
  • Changing Role of Managerial Accounting
Concepts of Cost Management Accounting for Custom Operations
  • Cost Concepts: An Overview
  • General Cost Classifications
  • Cost Classifications on Financial Statements
  • Cost Classifications for Different Purposes
Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in the Production Environment
  • Product and Service Costing
  • Flow of Costs in Manufacturing Firms
  • Types of Product-Costing Systems
  • Job-Order Cost Accumulation
  • Overhead Application
  • Extended Illustration of Job-Order Costing: Calculations and Journal Entries
  • Financial Schedules
  • Further Aspects of Overhead Application
Product and Hybrid Product Costing Systems
  • Comparison of Job-Order Costing and Process Costing
  • Purpose of product-costing systems
  • Differences in manufacturing environments
  • Differences in cost accumulation
  • Similarities in cost flows
  • Equivalent Units in Process-Costing Systems
  • Stage of completion of the work-inprocess ending inventory
  • Equivalent-unit calculations
  • Illustration of Reporting in a Process-Cost System
  • The departmental production report
  • Weighted-average method
  • Steps in preparing the departmental production report
  • Other Issues in Process Costing
  • Actual versus normal costing
  • Using a cost driver other than direct labor
  • A Hybrid Product-Costing System: Operation Costing for Batch Manufacturing
Activity Based Costing and Management
  • Traditional Cost Management
  • ABC Management
  • Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Costing
  • Activity-Based Costing: Key Issues
Analysis of Activity, Cost Behavior and Cost Estimation
  • Cost Behavior Patterns
  • Analyzing Mixed Costs
  • Applying Cost Behavior
Cost-VolumeProfit (CVP) Analysis
  • Approaches to CVP Analysis
  • Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Relationship
  • CVP Analysis and Cost Management
  • CVP Analysis and Cost Structure
Absorption and Variable Costing
  • Product Cost and Fixed Manufacturing Overhead
  • Absorption-costing income statements
  • Variable-costing income statements
  • Reconciliation of Absorption- and Variable-Costing Income
  • No change in inventory levels
  • Increase in inventory levels
  • Decrease in inventory levels
  • Overall Evaluation of Absorption and Variable Costing
  • Throughput Costing
Profit Planning and ActivityBased Budgeting
  • Framework of Budgeting
  • Budgets as a Planning Tool
  • Preparing the Master Budget
  • Activity-Based Budgeting
Operational Performance Measures: Standard Costing and Balanced Scorecard
  • Setting Performance Measures
  • Cost Variance Analysis
  • Using Standard Costs for Evaluation
  • The Balanced Scorecard
Flexible Budgeting: Managing Overhead and Support Activity Costs
  • Flexible Budgets: An Overview
  • Overhead Variance
  • Overhead Analysis
  • Activity-Based Flexible Budgets
Responsibility Accounting: Quality and Environmental Cost Control
  • Responsibility Accounting: An Overview
  • Segment Reporting
  • Decentralization Segment
  • Performance Evaluation
Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing
  • Capital Budgeting Decisions: An Overview
  • Screening Decisions: Net Present Value Method
  • Screening Decisions: Internal Rate of Return Method
  • Ranking Decisions
  • Screening Decisions: Economic Value Added (EVA)
Allocation of Support and Joint Costs
  • Service Department Cost Allocation: A General Overview
  • Methods of Service Department Cost Allocation
  • Direct method
  • Step-down method
  • Reciprocal-services method (appendix)
  • Dual-Cost Allocation
  • Today's Advanced Manufacturing Environment
  • Joint Product Cost Allocation
Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits
  • The Decision-Making Model
  • Identifying Relevant Costs and Benefits
  • Aspects of Decision Making
  • Activity-Based Costing and Relevant Costs

Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.

Assignments for this course include:

  • 4 Graded Exams
  • 1 Graded Midterm
  • 1 Graded Final


The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.


Wild, John J., and Ken W. Shaw. Managerial Accounting. 8th ed., McGraw Hill Education, 2022.


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