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Required Textbook
Zimmerman, Jerry. Accounting for Decision Making and Control. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN: 9780072975864.
Course readings.SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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1 | Introduction | |
2 | Decision making | Chapter 2 |
3 | Decision making (cont.) | Chapter 2 |
4 | Decision making (cont.) | Chapter 2 |
5 | Two cases | |
6 | Product costing | Chapter 9 |
7 | Product costing + case | Chapters 9-10 |
8 | Issues in product costing + case | Chapters 8-10 |
9 | Product costing refinements: 2 cases | Chapters 7 and 11 |
10 | Additional issues in product costing + 2 cases | Chapters 7 and 11 |
11 | Capacity issues + case | |
12 | Midterm | |
13 | Discuss midterm and submitted assignment (Mueller-Lehmkuhl) | |
14 | Incentive to overproduce; joint costs; allocation of service department costs | Chapters 8 and 10 |
15 | Organizational architecture | Chapters 4-5 |
16 | Performance evaluation + case | Chapters 4-5 |
17 | Performance evaluation + case (cont.) | Chapters 4-5 |
18 | Transfer pricing + case | Chapter 5 |
19 | Budgeting + case | Chapter 6 |
20 | Standard costing and variances + case | Chapter 12 |
21 | Class presentations | |
22 | Class presentations (cont.) | |
23 | Control systems: case + discuss submitted assignment | |
24 | Wrap-up | |