AC 320 - Cost Management

Institution:

Fairfield University

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Description:

This course focuses on the proactive management of costs and the effect of costs on managers' decision-making, planning, and control.Students learn to accumulate costs and assign them to products and services using several different techniques such as activity-based costing.Other topics include profit planning and resource allocation through the budgeting process; the evaluations of organizational performance in cost, profit, and investment centers; and the importance of cost in the strategic management of the organization.(Prerequisites: AC 12, AC 203; junior or senior standing) Three credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

fairfield.edu/

Phone Number:

(203) 254-4000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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