COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 224A.11

COURSE TITLE:  Managerial Accounting

UNITS OF CREDIT:  2 units

INSTRUCTOR:  Suneel Udpa

E-MAIL ADDRESS:  udpa@haas.berkeley.edu  

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL): http://bspace.berkeley.edu  

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Saturdays, 1:00PM-4:00PM, 10 weeks

Saturday, Aug 24

Saturday, Sept 14

Saturday, Sept 28

Saturday, Oct 5

Saturday, Oct 12

Saturday, Oct 19

Saturday, Oct 26

Saturday, Nov 2

Saturday, Nov 9

Saturday, Dec 7

Saturday, Dec 14 (Take home exam due)

PREREQUISITE(S): EWMBA core curriculum

CLASS FORMAT:  Lectures, cases and a project

REQUIRED READINGS:  Text, cases.
 

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
Class Participation: 15%
Midterm Project: 25%
Cases: 20%
Final: 40%

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: 
A more descriptive title for the course would be "Accounting for Decision-making and Control." This course is concerned with how a manager uses accounting information within his or her organization. Managers need information to perform three essential functions in an organization: a) planning operations, b) controlling and evaluating performance, and c) making decisions. The purpose of this class is to show what information is needed within an organization, where this information can be obtained, and how this information can be used by managers to plan, control, and make decisions. The course will emphasize that there is no perfect (cost) accounting system and will present the trade-offs that managers have to make between designing systems for reporting, decision-making, control and performance evaluation

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Please check:  http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/udpa.html