This course introduces cost and management accounting topics to enable students to understand how accounting information is used to manage an organization.

The course focuses on the factors that differentiate one company from another. For example, “What makes one company more profitable and/or better managed than another?” The course will look at various functional areas within the firm, ranging from manufacturing to marketing, and from accounting to human relations. In addition, the concept of management, how senior managers plan, implement and control those plans through people will be briefly discussed.

The course will enhance students’ personal skills in preparation for more advanced courses at the university in the following ways: working in groups, analyzing cases, writing reports, and making presentations.