COURSE NUMBER: MBA 224A.1
COURSE TITLE: Managerial Accounting
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 Units
INSTRUCTOR: Suneel Udpa
E-MAIL ADDRESS: udpa@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Thursdays, 4:00-6:00PM
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA202
CLASS FORMAT: Lectures, cases and a project
REQUIRED READINGS: Text, cases.
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
Class Participation/Attendance/Etiquette 20%
HW Problems and cases 20%
Midterm Project/Midterm Exam (take-home) 25%
Final Project/Final Exam (in-class) 35%
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