ACCT215 - Management Accounting

ACCT215 - Management Accounting
Course Number	ACCT215
Number of Credit Hours	3
Course Subject	Accounting
Taught at	Olayan School of Business

Course Description

A course that covers the use, interpretation, and analysis of management accounting information for management decision-making, planning, and control of operations. The focus is on cost behavior, cost measurement, budgeting, performance measurement and evaluation, responsibility accounting, and product costing.

Topical Coverage

Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment, Cost Terms Concepts and Classification, Cost Behavior: Analysis and Use, Cost-Volume Profit Relationships, Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making, Profit Planning, Standard Costs and the Balanced Scorecard, Flexible Budgets and Overhead Analysis, Relevant Costs for Decision Making, System Design: Job order costing, System Design: Process costing

Learning Goals

ACCT215_B-LG1: Professional Business Competence, ACCT215_B-LG2: Decision Making

Specific Learning Objectives

ACCT215_B-LG1.1: Business Professional Knowledge & Competence, ACCT215_B-LG2.1: Decision Making

Prerequisite Courses

ACCT210 - Financial Accounting

Instructional Methodology

Lecture, Class Discussion, Problem Solving, Individual Case Study, Group Case Study

Performance Evaluation

ACCT215_Midterm Examination, ACCT215_Final Examination, ACCT215_Attendance and Participation, ACCT215_Case 1, ACCT215_Case 2