Faculty of Business Administration Department of Accounting BBA Program COURSE OUTLINE Term: Summer 2012 – 2013 I. Course Code and Title : BBA – 2210: Managerial Accounting II. Credit : 3 credit hours III. Course Description: This course introduces management accounting as an interactive discipline among the young learners and covers a wide range of issues leading to managerial decision making such as: Definition and features of managerial accounting; cost terms‚ concepts‚ and classifications; cost
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Evolution of Financial Accounting Introduction Accountancy is the art of communicating financial information of a business entity to its stakeholders. It is the branch of mathematical science that assists in discovering the causes of success and failure in a business. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) defines accountancy as "The art of recording‚ classifying‚ and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money‚ transactions and events which are‚ in
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Outsourcing Erica Inman BUS630: Managerial Accounting Professor Oscar Lewis April 16‚ 2012 Outsourcing Outsourcing is used very extensively in today’s world. Organizations use all kinds of outsourcing in their ever day activities to improve products and services that they provide to customers. Outsourcing is used to free both capital and brainpower for investment‚ research‚ and development. More than 90 percent of companies view outsourcing as an important part of their business
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Managerial Accounting By Maher‚ Stickney and Weil 10e CHAPTER 6 FINANCIAL MODELING FOR SHORT-TERM DECISION MAKING Questions‚ Exercises‚ Problems‚ and Cases: Answers and Solutions 6.1 See text or glossary at the end of the book. 6.2 Operating profit = Sales revenue – Variable cost – Fixed cost 6.3 The unit contribution margin is the excess of the unit price over the unit variable costs. The total contribution margin is the excess of total revenue over total
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Accounting Alternatives Case At the beginning of the year 20x1‚ two companies began operations to sell home heating units. Eads Heaters Inc. is located in Eads‚ Colorado‚ and Glenwood Heating Inc. is in Glenwood Springs‚ Colorado. The companies operate under similar economic conditions and have identical operations during the year. However‚ each manager makes different accounting choices and estimates when applying generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in preparing the company’s financial
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Topic 5 Homework Questions – Solution 1. Resources that are used in operations for more than one year with no physical substance are called: a. current assets b. intangible assets c. non-current assets d. property‚ plant and equipment 2. Able Company purchased land and incurred the following costs: Purchase price $1 000 000 Excavation costs 100 000 Removing old building 25 000 Broker fees 20 000 Cost of a parking lot 50 000 What is the cost of the
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Hendriksen and Michael F. van Breda‚ Four Thousand Years of Accounting‚ Chapter 2 of Accounting Theory‚ 5th edition‚ Irwin‚ 1992 Accountancy‚ from Wikipedia‚ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting. Retrieved January 20‚ 2011. Contents of lecture notes: 1. Introduction 2. Why bother with the history of accounting? 3. The beginnings 4. So what is ‘accounting’ (or ‘accountancy’)? 5. Double-entry accounting 6. Why double-entry accounting? 7. The period 1500 to 1800 8. The period 1800 to 1955 9. The
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J. Llano Managerial Accounting Performance Measures & Responsibilities Managerial accounting in simple terms relates to providing information in support of the internal management processes which aids managers to identify‚ accumulate‚ analyze‚ interpret and use collected information to help the company meet its organizational
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Cost Accounting‚ 14e‚ Global Edition (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 12 Pricing Decisions and Cost Management Objective 12.1 1) Companies should only produce and sell units as long as: A) there is customer demand for the product B) the competition allows it C) the revenue from an additional unit exceeds the cost of producing it D) there is a generous supply of low-cost direct materials Answer: C Diff: 2 Terms: target price Objective: 1 AACSB: Ethical reasoning 2) Too high a price may: A)
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Chapter 5: Cost Behavior: Analysis and Use As we shall see in later chapters‚ the ability to predict how costs respond to changes in activity is critical for making decisions‚ controlling operations‚ and evaluating performance. Three major classifications of costs were discussed in this chapter—variable‚ fixed‚ and mixed. Mixed costs consist of variable and fixed elements and can be expressed in equation form as Y = a + bX‚ where X is the activity‚ Y is the cost‚ a is the fixed cost element‚ and
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