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.

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