ACCT 70211 - Strategic Cost Analysis

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Accountancy

Description:

This course will expose students to recent advances in cost accounting and highlight important inputs into the design of cost systems. Cases will cover a variety of decision-making settings and highlight the role of cost information in these settings. The course objectives are: (1) to develop an understanding for the important characteristics of a good cost system; and (2) to analyze the role of cost information in a variety of management decisions such as pricing, product mix, improving productivity, and quality management and performance evaluation. Emerging themes such as activity-based costing, target costing, customer profitability analysis, theory of constraints, and cost of quality, will be examined.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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