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Cost Accounting

BUS ADM X419

40225
Delivery Options Online

Get an introduction to cost terms and purposes, and learn how to control and improve profitability through planning, budgeting, pricing and cost management. Learn about the foundations of successful business decision-making and financial performance evaluation process in various types of enterprises.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives

  • Demonstrate a thorough grasp of cost terms, cost behaviors, cost allocation, budgets and variances, cost management and profitability improvement
  • Apply knowledge to a decision-making process

What You Learn

  • Cost terms, purposes
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Job costing
  • Process costing
  • Master budget
  • Responsibility accounting
  • Flexible budgets
  • Direct-cost and overhead-cost variances
  • Management control
  • Pricing decisions
  • Support-department costs
  • Common costs
  • Revenue
  • Capital budgeting
  • Transfer pricing
  •  Multinational considerations


How You Learn

  • Lectures
  • Reading assignments
  • Self-study questions
  • Discussion forums
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Sections

Section 047

Jun 01, 2021 to Sep 07, 2021 Online

Course Fee(s)

Course Fee credit (3 units)

$1,350.00

Type Online, Fixed Date

Enroll in this course by its start date and complete it by its specified end date. There are no live sessions, but plenty of opportunities to collaborate with your classmates and instructor.

Dates

Jun 01, 2021 to Sep 07, 2021

Instructional Hours

45.00

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

3 semester units

Instructors

  • Suzanne Garrett

Section Notes

Students must score a 70% or higher on the final exam to pass the course.

TEXTBOOK NOTES:  The textbook is available in both electronic and hard copy formats.

Access to MyAccountingLab is required for the course.

Section Materials

  • Textbook (Mandatory) Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis by Srikant M. Datar, Madhav T. Rajan © 2018 Pearson 16th edition ISBN ISBN-13: 978-0134475585 ISBN-10: 0134475585

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Accounting

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Required Courses

  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Intermediate Accounting I
  • Intermediate Accounting II
  • Accounting Ethics
  • Advanced Accounting

Electives

  • Auditing and Attestation
  • Accounting for Government and Not-for-Profit Organizations
  • Cost Accounting
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Income Taxes and Personal Financial Planning
  • Presenting Quantitative Data Effectively
  • Principles of Business Law
  • Taxation for Corporations and Other Flow-Through Entities

Learn More About this Program

Certificate Program in Financial Planning and Analysis

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Core Courses

  • Corporate Financial Analysis and Modeling
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • International Finance

Electives

  • Basic Corporate Finance
  • Business Valuation
  • Cost Accounting
  • Intermediate Corporate Finance
  • Introduction to Data Analytics
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Presenting Quantitative Data Effectively

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-business@berkeley.edu | (510) 642-4231

Prerequisites

Introduction to Financial Accounting UGBZ XB102A/XBW102A and Introduction to Managerial Accounting UGBA XB102B/XBW102B or equivalent

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Suzanne Garrett

Suzanne Garrett, M.B.A., PMP, Extension Honored Instructor, is a business consultant and trainer, and has assisted a variety of companies with project management implementation and organizational processes including construction, governmental and not-for-profit organizations and start-up ventures. She also has more than 15 years of teaching and training experience as an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension and other Bay Area schools.

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