Course Details

  • Online, asynchronous
  • 5 weeks | May 28 to June 28, 2024
  • 3 credits | $1,716
  • Last day to register: May 21, 2024
  • Prerequisites: BUS 203 (with a grade of C- or better)

Course Overview

Concepts and practices of managerial accounting. Topics include: cost behavior and cost-volume-profit analysis, contribution margin reporting, profit planning and budgeting, standard costs, performance analysis, decentralized operations, and relevant costs for decision making.

Course Advantages

Managerial Accounting teaches the accounting concepts associated with understanding, gathering and building the financial information to assist internal managers with making the best decisions to meet and exceed the goals of a business organization. In this sense, this course is essential to any student who will be working in or will be exposed to any business in their future career. In addition, this particular course trains students to think in the context of existing businesses, adding a current and modern take to the concepts studied. Any student interested in understanding the business aspect of any industry, across any discipline is encouraged to join.

Additional Information

Students can expect one hour of classroom/direct faculty instruction as well as a minimum of two hours of student work each week.

Faculty will contact all students after the Tuesday, May 21, registration deadline.

About the Instructor

Marie Solange Lopes

Assistant Professor of Accounting
An educator, writer and entrepreneur, Assistant Professor of Accounting Marie Solange Lopes knows potential and purpose. While encouraging her students to make their accounting and business knowledge their own, she also writes about turning potential into power on The Corporate Sister, an online community for women that she founded in 2013. Professor Lopes is also a licensed CPA and consultant with a background in public accounting as well as external and internal auditing.

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