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Cost Accounting For Managerial Decisions-Executive Concentration

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Cost Accounting For Managerial Decisions Certificate

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3 courses

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This course will teach you how various costs are reflected on a company’s balance sheet and income statement, and how an analysis of cost behavior, operational and capital budgeting, transfer pricing and other factors can inform organizational decision-making processes and strategy. Through a variety of learning modalities, you will acquire the skills necessary for estimating variable and fixed costs, determining profit based on sales, and preparing a cost of goods manufactured schedule.
 

Learning Outcomes

Study how to analyze cost behavior through product vs. period costs, variable or fixed costs, sunken or discretionary costs, actual or opportunity costs and direct or indirect costs.

Learn how to utilize the High Low Method to estimate past costs and project future costs both algebraically and graphically.

Be able to interpret and analyze cost-volume-profit relationships focusing on the effects of a change in volume.

Learn to derive the formula for break-even point and apply to specific situations both algebraically and graphically.

Be able to utilize the Operating Leverage technique to estimate the effects of a change in volume on profits for simple and complex situations.

Learn how to identify the Responsibility Centers within an organization, the role of managers within each responsibility center and the application of the Segmented Income Statement.

Learn how to identify, explain, and apply the elements of the Flow of Product Cost in a manufacturing company.

Be able to apply the principles of the Flow of Product Costing and Job Order Costing to manufacturing overhead.

Learn how to identify the three objectives of Activity Based Costing and how to apply them.

Who will you learn with?

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Cecil Jackson

Cecil Jackson, Professor of Clinical Accounting in the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California, teaches courses on fraudulent financial reporting and managerial accounting for the MBA program and the graduate and undergraduate accounting programs. Dr. Jackson developed and teaches the School of Accounting’s course on "Detecting Fraudulent Financial Reporting.

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