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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.

Prerequisites:

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

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 050

Feb 28 to Jun 06

Type: Online, Fixed Date

Instructor:

  • Suzanne Garrett

Cost: $1,350.00

See section 050 Details

Type Online, Fixed Date

Dates

Feb 28, 2023 to Jun 06, 2023

Instructional Hours

45.00

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

3 semester units

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 978-0134475585

Spring enrollment opens on October 17!

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Accounting

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Required Courses

  • Financial 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
  • Accounting Business Processes and Information Systems

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
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Presenting Quantitative Data Effectively

Learn More About this Program

Notes

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


Instructional Types

Live Online
Live Online courses provide an interactive learning experience with scheduled synchronous online sessions held via Zoom video conferencing (Pacific Time). Learn more about the Live Online format.
Online, Start Anytime
Continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. You have a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.
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.
Classroom
Take classes in-person at one of our buildings or partner locations.

English Language Proficiency Requirements

All of our courses are taught in English. If English is not your first language, please use the following test scores as guides in order to be successful:

  • TOEFL: 90
  • IELTS Academic Format: 7
  • DAAD: C1
  • TEM-4 or TEM-8: Level 70
  • Duolingo: 115

Note: You do not need to submit test scores.

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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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