Accounting for Managerial Decision Making - ACO 620

Business decisions are mostly based on accounting records and success is usually measured in financial terms. This course is directly concerned with those managerial aspects related to the use of accounting information to make sound and informed short-term and long-term calculated decisions. Topics include categorizing relevant costs, costing systems, and cost-volume-profit relationships. Special attention is also drawn to profit planning and budgetary control, pricing products and services, and measuring and managing customer relationships and life cycle costs. This course will also develop graduate students’ ability to analyze the published statements of corporations. Prerequisites: ACO 501 or Equivalent.