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.
Professor Hecht was thorough and broke down all aspects of the course work. The knowledge gained from this course will assist across all fields.
The material is thorough and liked the content. The testing aspect/ quez, u have to pay !
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
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