Required Textbook
Zimmerman, Jerry. Accounting for Decision Making and Control. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN: 9780072975864.
Course readings.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 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 |
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