Sheridan Course Outlines

ACCG3007
Costs and Management Accounting

I: Administrative Information II: Course Details III: Topical Outline(s) Printable Version

Section I: Administrative Information

Total hours: 42.0
Credit Value: 3.0
Credit Value Notes: N/A
Effective: Fall 2003
Prerequisites: (ACCG2004) AND (ACCG3004)
Corequisites: N/A
Equivalents: N/A
Pre/Co/Equiv Notes: N/A

Program(s): Business - Human Resources, Business Admin - Accounting, Business Admin - Finance
Program Coordinator(s): Multiple Coordinators
Course Leader or Contact: Multiple Course Leaders
Version: 11.0
Status: Approved - Under Rev (AREV)

Section I Notes: N/A

Section II: Course Details

Detailed Description
Find out how managers use accounting data internally to direct the affairs of organizations, set plans and objectives, and make decisions. Examine the development of internal accounting data, accounting for manufacturing costs of material, and labour and overhead. Please note: ACCG3007 and ACCG3015 together qualify for exemption toward the CGA course of study.

Program Context

Business - Human Resources

Program Coordinator: Multiple

This course along with FINA 2001 is accredited by the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario towards a CHRP dessignation (60% minimum average of the two courses is required by the HRPAO). Program Coordinator: John Hardisty. It is highly recommended that FINA2001 be taken before this course.

Business Admin - Accounting

Program Coordinator: Multiple

This course is a core component of the second year of the Accounting Program. This course along with ACCG3015 qualifies for exemption towards the CGA course MA1 with a grade of "B" or better. Program Coordinator: Donna P. Grace

Business Admin - Finance

Program Coordinator: Multiple

This is a core component of the second year of the Finance Program. Program Coordinator: Henry Katz.

Course Critical Performance and Learning Outcomes

 Knowledge and Skills:
Successful students will have demonstrated 
knowledge of:

- the role and functions of both managerial and financial accounting 
  in a business organization
- the various categories and classifications of costs and how they 
  vary with changes in business activity
- break-even analysis, c-v-p analysis, contribution margin
- various methods and techniques used to identify, measure and 
  analysis cost behaviours
- product costing
- make or buy analysis
- service department costs
- special orders
- irrelevant costs
- cost-benefit analysis
- activity-based costing concepts
- linkage between planning and budgeting
- types of budgets, ie. flexible, static, capital, master, operating 
  and financial budgets, and the components and construction of each
- budgetary variances and analysis
- concepts of standard costing and related variances
- responsibility accounting, and cost, revenue and investment centres
- balance scorecard
- management control systems in both centralized and decentralized 
  organizations and related measures of performance
- strategic business units and segmented financial reporting
- financial evaluation techniques for business units, eg. return on 
  investment and residual income
- transfer pricing

Attitudes:
Successful students will have demonstrated 
attitudes of:

- Commitment to thorough problem analysis  
  processes and the development of creative 
  accounting solutions.
- Responsibility, as demonstrated by behaviours 
  such as attending, participating and learning in 
  the classroom and home study.
- Responsibility in meeting test and assignment 
  due dates.

Evaluation Plan
Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:

Assignments/Quizzes		20%		
   
Mid-Term Exam		        40%
Final Exam		        40%
                               ____
                     Total     100%

Participation:

Students are expected to make a reasonable effort to attend classes 
and to get involved.  It is the students' responsibility to know where 
they are in the course and to be prepared for the upcoming class 
sessions.  The course schedule should be consulted on a regular basis. 
Absence due to special circumstances should be discussed with the 
professor in advance wherever possible.

Provincial Context
The course meets the following Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities requirements:

Generic Skills
Generic Skills emphasized in the course:

X	communication - written	X	communication - oral		communication - visual
	analytical		creative thinking	X	decision making
X	interpersonal	X	numeracy		organizational
X	problem solving		technological	X	other (see below)

Notes: Critical Thinking

General Education
This General Education course relates to the following themes as specified by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

	asthetic appreciation		social understanding
	civic life		understanding science
	cultural understanding		understanding technology
	personal development		work and the economy

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
PLAR Contact (if course is PLAR-eligible) : Office of the Registrar
Students may apply to receive credit by demonstrating achievement of the course learning outcomes through previous relevant work/life experience, service, self-study and training on the job. This course is eligible for challenge through the following method(s):

Challenge Exam	Portfolio	Interview	Other	Not Eligible for PLAR
X

Notes: N/A

Section III: Topical Outline

Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and class timetabling.

Print	Effective Term	Professor	Applicable Student Group(s)
	Fall 2003	Multiple Professors	Business Administration - Accounting, Business Administration - Finance
	Fall 2003	Multiple Professors	Business Administration - Human Resources

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