This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the fundamentals of managerial accounting including how to navigate the financial and related information managers need to help them make decisions. You'll learn about cost behavior and cost allocation systems, how to conduct cost-volume-profit analysis, and how to determine if costs and benefits are relevant to your decisions.
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Managerial Accounting Fundamentals
University of VirginiaAbout this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Different types of costs and how they are represented graphically
Cost-volume-profit analyses to answer questions around breaking even and generating profit
How to calculate and allocate overhead rates within both traditional and activity-based cost allocation systems
How to distinguish costs and benefits that are relevant from those that are irrelevant for a given management decision
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING AND COST BEHAVIOR
COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS
COST ALLOCATION
RELEVANT COSTS AND BENEFITS
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- 3 stars1.21%
- 2 stars0.45%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FUNDAMENTALS
The examples, exercises and tests ensure that the concepts are understood through and through. Further, Honors content is a definite booster.
I didn't receive Honors recognition although I completed all the requirements for this except it's pending from your side. Thanking you in anticipation of positive response.
this course very convenient for mangers . Mrs Luann J. Lynch is great instructor , i really love the way she taught us. thanks to her for making Managerial Accounting so easy .
Very interesting and would love to learn more , the time was not enough for me but I could understand very well.
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