PMBA 8115 - Managerial Accounting and Control Systems

1.5 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: PMBA 8000 and PMBA 8025.
Corequisites: PMBA 8015 and PMBA 8030 and PMBA 8040 and PMBA 8045.
Description
This course demonstrates how managerial accounting and control systems can help managers make affective operating and strategic decisions within the firm. In particular, this course uses cases and other materials to demonstrate how cost, planning, and performance measurement systems can help managers increase the effectiveness of small and large firms within their current and future operating environment. To help students develop the analytical skills necessary for evaluating alternative designs of control systems, this course also introduces economic and behavioral theories of managerial control.