Accounting for Business Decision Making
Master managerial accounting: essential for strategic & operational decisions. Improve your cost analysis, budgeting, and performance evaluation skills.
Master managerial accounting: essential for strategic & operational decisions. Improve your cost analysis, budgeting, and performance evaluation skills.
This course cannot be purchased separately - to access the complete learning experience, graded assignments, and earn certificates, you'll need to enroll in the full Fundamentals of Accounting Specialization program. You can audit this specific course for free to explore the content, which includes access to course materials and lectures. This allows you to learn at your own pace without any financial commitment.
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What you'll learn
Understanding the role of accounting in business decision making
Learning to create and organize cost information effectively
Developing skills in product management and profitability analysis
Mastering cost-volume-profit analysis for business decisions
Applying accounting concepts to operational decision making
Skills you'll gain
This course includes:
2.3 Hours PreRecorded video
15 quizzes
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FullTime access
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There are 5 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to managerial accounting's role in business decision-making. Students learn how accounting information facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions to achieve organizational goals. The curriculum focuses on cost information creation, organization, and communication to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop products, make pricing decisions, and handle common business decisions. Through practical examples and exercises, participants gain hands-on experience in using accounting data for operational decision-making.
Course Orientation
Module 1 · 1 Hours to complete
Introduction to Business Decision Making
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
Cost Concepts and Perspectives
Module 3 · 2 Hours to complete
Managing Products and Profitability
Module 4 · 4 Hours to complete
Managing Operations and Sales
Module 5 · 5 Hours to complete
Fee Structure
Instructor
Associate Professor of Accountancy and Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow
Gary Hecht is an Associate Professor of Accountancy and the Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He previously held academic positions at Emory University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hecht has served as the academic director of the iMSA Program and as the executive director of Lifelong Learning at Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois in 2005 and a B.S. in Accountancy from Illinois State University in 1995. His research interests include managerial accounting, performance measurement, and the effects of managerial discretion on team dynamics, with numerous publications in leading accounting journals. Hecht has been recognized multiple times on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by his students.
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