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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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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I love the energy and the practice from the professor. Her light board is fantastic and so helpful for me to be able to understand the concepts with clear structures to solve accounting problems.
The time I spent here was so worth it, because it really helps me to gain knowledge about managerial accounting.
Its a five star course.
It has much rigor and gives a run for your time and money.
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