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:
Thursday, 4:00-6:00PM
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA202
CLASS FORMAT: Lectures,
cases and a project
REQUIRED
READINGS: Text, cases.
Class
Participation/Attendance/Etiquette 20%
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: