The purpose of this course is to introduce students to fundamental financial and management accounting concepts required for making business decisions. In particular, we seek to introduce students to the concepts and principles underlying the content of external financial statements and to provide an overview of the use of internal accounting information to make sound business decisions. South-Western Publishing Co. Selected chapters from Managerial Accounting by Ronald Hilton, published by Primis Supplementary cases. In addition, a number of short articles are linked throughout this syllabus. In addition, class participation will be evaluated based on responses to case material to be assigned during the course, participation in homework solving, and general participation in classroom discussions.
Homework is a learning tool to help reinforce concepts discussed in class.
It is essential, however, that you stay current in your assignments. Time permitting, we will review homework in class. Students will be expected to participate in homework problem solving. For the Primis material, only solutions to assigned problems will be made available electronically.