...GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR CHUCK MCPEAK MBAM-601.13 ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKERS FALL 2006 WENESDAY 8-12 AM MALIBU SYLLABUS ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKERS MBAM-601.13 FALL 2006 Wednesday 8-12 AM Malibu Chuck McPeak 217 23rd St. Manhattan Beach CA 90266 Office (310) 506-4879 Home (310) 545-6921 FAX (310) 546-7671 Email cmcpeak@pepperdine.edu Course Description The primary emphasis of this study is to place sophisticated tools and techniques in the hands of primary users in making business decisions. Specific topics include cost behavior analysis, cost management systems, relevant cost analysis, performance measurement, and value-based management control systems. The course also includes presentations in teams whereby the students apply the course material. Course objectives At the conclusion of this course the student should be able to communicate cost information orally and in writing and should demonstrate managerial level analysis and decision making in the following areas: 1.Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis 2.Master budgeting 3.Relevant revenues 4.Management control systems 5.Performance measurement 6.Activity based costing 7.Job order costing 8.Ethical issues and the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley 9.The use of production data and information technology to solve business problems Text and Course Materials 1.Horngren, Foster & Datar “Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis”, Twelfth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006 2.Harvard Business School Case 9-198-117...
Words: 897 - Pages: 4
...Office Phone: (213) 740-0378 FAX: (562) 439-2250 Home Phone: (562) 438-4359 E-Mail: myrtle@usc.edu Office Hours: By Appointment Only Office Location: Lewis Hall 301e Course Description Application of principles of health administration in several practice settings. Decision making, strategic management, organizational performance, communication, and provider comparisons. Introduction This course is designed to be the capstone course for the Master of Health Services Administration degree. It assumes that the student is in the final semester of graduate work and has successfully completed course work in health issues and policy, health economics, financial management, organizational behavior, quantitative analysis, and health law. The title of the course and its description has been instrumental in shaping the focus of this course and the material to be covered. My particular emphasis will be on management strategy within the context of current theory and practice. We will introduce new concepts, develop and refine old ones, expand upon your theory of management and organizations, and examine present and emerging practices. The course activities have been designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice and strengthen...
Words: 5375 - Pages: 22
...Portada Management information systems managing the digital firm Part One. Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise ....1 Chapter 1. Managing the Digital Firm ....2 Opening Case: DaimlerChrysler's Agile Supply Chain ....3 1.1 Why Information Systems? ....4 Why Information Systems Matter 4 • How Much Does IT Matter? 6 • Why IT Now? Digital Convergence and the Changing Business Environment ....7 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems ....13 What Is an Information System? ....13 Windows on Organizations: Cemex: A Digital Firm in the Making ....14 Window on Technology: UPS Competes Globally with Information Technology ....17 It Isn't Just Technology: A Business Perspective on Information Systems 18 • Dimensions of Information Systems ....20 1.3 Contemporary Approaches to Information Systems ....25 Technical Approach 26 • Behavioral Approach 26 • Approach of This Text: Sociotechnical Systems ....27 1.4 Learning to Use Information Systems: New Opportunities with Technology ....27 The Challenge of Information Systems: Key Management Issues 28 • Integrating Text with Technology: New Opportunities for Learning ....30 Make IT Your Business ....31 Summary, 31 • Key Terms, 32 • Review Questions, 32 • Discussion Questions, 33 • Application Software Exercise: Database Exercise: Adding Value to Information for Management Decision Making, 33 • Dirt Bikes USA: Preparing a Management Overview of the Company, 33 • Electronic Commerce Project: Analyzing...
Words: 3823 - Pages: 16
...Organizational E-Commerce Intra Organizational E-Commerce, and Consumer to Business Electronic Commerce, Architectural framework Network Infrastructure for E-Commerce Network Infrastructure for E-Commerce, Market forces behind I Way, Component of I way Access Equipment, Global Information Distribution Network, Broad band Telecommunication. UNIT-II Mobile Commerce Introduction to Mobile Commerce, Mobile Computing Application, Wireless Application Protocols, WAP Technology, Mobile Information Devices, Web Security Introduction to Web security, Firewalls & Transaction Security, Client Server Network, Emerging Client Server Security Threats, firewalls & Network Security. UNIT-III Encryption World Wide Web & Security, Encryption, Transaction security, Secret Key Encryption, Public Key Encryption, Virtual Private Network (VPM), Implementation Management Issues. UNIT - IV Electronic Payments Overview of Electronics payments, Digital Token based Electronics payment System, Smart Cards, Credit Card I Debit Card based EPS, Emerging financial Instruments, Home Banking, Online Banking. UNIT-V Net Commerce EDA, EDI Application in Business, Legal requirement in E -Commerce, Introduction to supply Chain Management, CRM, issues in Customer Relationship Management. References: 1. Greenstein and Feinman, “E-Commerce”, TMH 2. Ravi Kalakota, Andrew Whinston, “Frontiers of Electronic Commerce”, Addision Wesley 3. Denieal Amor, “ The E-Business Revolution”, Addision Wesley 4. Diwan, Sharma, “E-Commerce” Excel...
Words: 2913 - Pages: 12
...R. HOLLENBECK Michigan State University University of Wisconsin-Madison ) Cornell University McGraw-Hill Irwin ENT; Preface vi 1 Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage 2 Enter the World of Business: Starbucks: HR Practices Help Focus on the Brew, Weather the Recession, and Prepare for Growth 3 Introduction 4 What Responsibilities and Roles Do HR Departments Perform? 5 Strategic Role of the HRM Function 7 Demonstrating the Strategic Value of HR: HR Analytics and Evidence-Based HR 10 The HRM Profession: Positions, Education, and Competencies 11 Competitive Challenges Influencing Human Resource Management 14 Key Terms 61 Discussion Questions 61 Self-Assessment Exercise 62 Exercising Strategy 62 Managing People Skill Shortages Make It Difficult to Fill Positions and Customer Orders 63 Twitter Focus 64 Notes 64 Parti The Human Resource Environment 69 2 Strategic Human Resource Management 70 The Sustainability Challenge 14 Enter the World of Business: HP's New Strategy 71 Evidence-Based HR 24 Introduction 72 Competing through Sustainability Volunteerism and Going Green Are Reaping Dividends for Employees, Communities, and the Environment 30 What Is a Business Model? 72 GM's Attempt to Survive 73 What Is Strategic Management? 74 Components of the Strategic Management Process 75 Linkage between HRM and the Strategic Management Process 75 The Global Challenge 44 Competing through Globalization ...
Words: 2982 - Pages: 12
...Fall 2011 EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (EMBA) Shanghai Modern human resource management may be viewed as a process of acquisition, development, utilization, and maintenance of a human resource mix (people and positions) to achieve strategic organizational goals and objectives. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of human resource management from theoretical, practical, and empirical viewpoints. Material will be presented and discussed from the perspective of the operating or line manager as well as the human resource specialist. Attention will be devoted to the various contexts of human resource management, basic techniques and methods, and the changing nature of managing human resources. More specifically, our concerns will include human resource and employment planning, employee recruitment and selection, training and development, performance planning and evaluation, compensation administration, organizational career management, structure of the human resource function, and the strategic role of human resource management. Objectives of the Course: During the course, the student will hopefully progress toward attainment of the following objectives: 1. Become familiar with the human resource management process (or HR value chain) and its key elements: a. Organization and human resource goals and strategies b. Human resource planning and analysis c. Employee staffing – recruitment...
Words: 5163 - Pages: 21
...students with the mathematical thinking. It focuses on topics of calculus that are relevant to students in the managerial and business sciences. The main goals of the course are to develop technical skills allowing the analysis of real life problems, to provide the tools necessary to formulate, analyse and implement a simple quantitative model to support a business decision, and to understand articles and books on business analysis Starting with preliminaries to calculus, and limits, we follow with derivatives and its applications to real life problems, and integration. This course covers also functions with more than one variable, differential equations, and optimization. Basic requirement. Students must have a good background on algebra and arithmetic, as well as a good understanding of mathematical functions and their applications to practical problems. Course Objectives * To builds skills and proficiency in methods of calculus * To understand concepts, formulas and techniques of calculus through exercises and applied examples * To be able to translate real-world problems to mathematical language and models * To acquire ease in identifying the different kind of problem and the appropriated rule to solve it * To interpret results of calculus * To apply analytical methods of calculus that are relevant to managerial and business sciences. Course Outcomes * To work with functions represented in a variety of ways, including graphical, numerical...
Words: 1257 - Pages: 6
...MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS) Term 1; ECTS: 10 (July 2-22, 2015) Prof. D P Goyal, Ph.D. Management Development Institute Gurgaon-122001, New Delhi, INDIA dpgoyal@mdi.ac.in;dpgoyal23@gmail.com 1 INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROFESSOR Dr. D P Goyal is Professor at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India (www.mdi.ac.in/faculty/detail/28-d-p-goyal/). • • • • • • • • Post Graduate in Business Management; Doctorate in MIS Over 29 years of experience in teaching, research, consulting & executive training Published more than hundred research papers in national / international journals of repute Published 18 books including three well acclaimed text books one each on MIS from Macmillan; ERP from McGraw-Hill; and IT project Management from Macmillan Have supervised 13 Ph.D. research scholars Completed many sponsored research projects On the Board of Governors; Advisory Board; Academic Council; Board of Studies of many business Schools/Universities Member of editorial board and review panel of several referred journals OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE The main objectives of the course are to provide the management student a broad understanding of: • • • • • Information Systems (such as Transaction Processing Systems, Management Information Systems, Decision Support systems, etc) from a Business Perspective Information Systems Planning Key IT Technologies, and the implications of these technologies for managers Identifying...
Words: 2915 - Pages: 12
...SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DESIGNATION PROGRAM MODULE THREE Logistics and Transportation ©Supply Chain Management Association Supply Chain Management Professional Designation Program Copyright © 2013 by the Supply Chain Management Association No part of this material in this manual may be reproduced without the prior written consent of the Supply Chain Management Association. 777 Bay Street, Suite 2701, P.O. Box 112, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C8 Tel: (416) 977-7111 Fax: (416) 977-8886 Web Site: www.scmanational.ca. Use of this material is restricted to SCMA and its Provincial/Territorial Institutes for the express purpose of delivering the Supply Chain Management Designation Program. No other use is authorized, expressed, or implied. This material must be used in its entirety. © Supply Chain Management Association Supply Chain Management Professional Designation Program Module Three Logistics and Transportation Information and Overview .................................................................................................... IO – 1 General Information ........................................................................................................ IO – 2 Module Overview ........................................................................................................... IO – 4 Module Readings ............................................................................................................ IO – 7 Session and Reading...
Words: 6233 - Pages: 25
...schedules 4. Use computer-based financial planning models in sensitivity analysis 5. Explain kaizen budgeting and how it is used for cost management 6. Prepare an activity-based budget 7. Describe responsibility centers and responsibility accounting 8. Explain how controllability relates to responsibility accounting II. CHAPTER SYNOPSIS Chapter 6 introduces the important topic of budgets. Budgets are the primary financial planning tool used by businesses. The chapter explains how businesses use budgets and budgeting as part of the management process. The concept of responsibility centers and responsibility accounting is also discussed and related to the concept of controllability. III. CHAPTER OUTLINE Budgets represent in financial and nonfinancial terms the plans of a business for a specified period of time. Financial budgets are, in essence, financial statements that report expected or proposed future activity instead of what has already occurred. Supporting these financial budgets are nonfinancial budgets that report expected or proposed future activity in areas such as number of employees, new products developed, and number of units produced or sold. (Exhibit 6-1 illustrates the link among strategy, planning, and budgets.) Do Chapter Quizzes # 1 and 2. Assign Problem 6-31. Budgets are an important part of a well-designed management control system. A well-designed and properly administered budget can motivate employees...
Words: 2045 - Pages: 9
...communicated by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the institution (or the body that administers it) has sent a Statutory Educational notice to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and been granted a licence. For details of statutory educational and other copyright licences contact: Copyright Agency Limited, Level 15, 233 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Telephone: (02) 9394 7600. Website: www.copyright.com.au Reproduction and communication for other purposes Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the written permission of McGraw-Hill Australia including, but not limited to, any network or other electronic storage. Enquiries should be made to the publisher...
Words: 7672 - Pages: 31
...Copyright © 2012, Bridgepoint Education, Inc. All rights reserved. GRANT OF PERMISSION TO PRINT: Bridgepoint Education, Inc., the copyright owner of this material, hereby grants the holder of this publication the right to print these materials for personal use. The holder of this material may print the materials herein for personal use only. Any print, reprint, reproduction or distribution of these materials for commercial use without the express written consent of Bridgepoint Education, Inc. constitutes a violation of the Copyright Law of the United States of 1976 (P.L. 94-553). Brief Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2: The Accounting System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Chapter 3: Income Measurement and the Accounting Cycle . . . . . . . 53 Chapter 4: Cash, Receivables, and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter 5: Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Chapter 6: Plant Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 7: Current Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Words: 1222 - Pages: 5
... |School of Business | | |ACC/561 Version 4 | | |Accounting | Copyright © 2011, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course applies accounting tools to make management decisions. Students learn to evaluate organizational performance from accounting information. Other topics include financial statements, cost behavior, cost allocation, budgets, and control systems. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Abrams, R. (2003). The successful business plan: Secrets & strategies (4th ed.)...
Words: 2241 - Pages: 9
...of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising in connection with the use and performance of and/or reliance of the Information. CPA PROGRAM – PROFESSIONAL LEVEL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING DELIVERING STRATEGY: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT’S ROLE WORKSHOP NOTES 2014 AUTHORS: RICHARD COMERFORD AND PETER ROBINSON REVISED BY: BRIAN CLARKE Contents Workshop notes Workshop introduction Workshop objectives Workshop purpose Case Study: Pavlova Pty Ltd (PPL) Module 4: Techniques for creating and managing value Product costing at PPL Strategic management accounting tools and non-manufacturing activities Module 4 review questions Module 5 introduction – Project management Project selection NPV and sensitivity analysis Project planning – PERT Project implementation Project completion and review Module 5 review questions 1 2 2 3 3 8 11 20 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 32 Workshop...
Words: 12972 - Pages: 52
...characteristics of “good software”. · Define what is meant by a systems approach to building software and understand why a systems approach is important. · Describe how software engineering has changed since the 1970s. Summary: This chapter addresses the track record of software engineering, motivating the reader and highlighting key issues that are examined in later chapters. In particular, the chapter uses Wasserman's key factors to help define software engineering. The chapter also describes the differences between computer science and software engineering and explains some of the major types of problems that can be encountered. The chapter explores the need to take a systems approach to building software. The main emphasis of this chapter is to lay the groundwork for the rest of the book. Software engineers use their knowledge of computers and computing to help solve problems. For problem-solving, software engineering makes use of analysis and synthesis. Software engineers begin investigating a problem by analyzing it, breaking it into pieces that are easier to deal with and understand. Once a problem is analyzed, a solution is synthesized based on the analysis of the pieces. To help solve problems, software engineers employ a variety of methods, tools, procedures and paradigms. To understand where software engineering fits in, it is helpful to consider the field of chemistry and its use to solve problems. A chemist investigates various aspects of chemicals while...
Words: 1130 - Pages: 5
