In this course, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors with these resources. You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy.
This course is part of the Value Chain Management Specialization

About this Course
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- Accounting
- Cost
- Investment
- Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Overview and Relevant Information for Decision Making
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
Performance Measurement and Evaluation
Budgeting for Planning and Control
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- 5 stars78%
- 4 stars16.83%
- 3 stars2.74%
- 2 stars0.85%
- 1 star1.54%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: TOOLS FOR FACILITATING AND GUIDING BUSINESS DECISIONS
Enjoyed the class. It has some basic math that enables learning for application.
Great course to learn about the fundamentals of managerial accounting and how it is used in real world problems.
Professor Hecht is Cool, Calm and Collective when delivering this course. It was a great review of past Management Accounting courses and provided some new learning on Capital Budgets
Really enjoyed learning management and accounting concepts in this course. Looking forward tgat more of this type of courses will be offered in the future.
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