BACC 532 - Strategic Management Accounting

Credit(s): 3 hours
In this course, students will learn to use a range of analytic tools for costing, decision making, planning and control and consider their applicability within the context of strategic management. Topics for discussion will include: the role of accounting information in management decision making; workflow and process analysis; measuring and reporting sustainability; an introduction to cost terms and inventory costing; product and service costing; cost behavior; activity-based costing and activity-based management; pricing decisions and customer-profitability analysis; budgeting; direct cost variances and management control; balanced scorecard; and strategic profitability analysis.