ACCT20051  Accounting Information for Decision-Making

The aims of this course are to give people without an accounting background:

• a working knowledge of recording processes used by accountants
• an understanding of the information that is provided by an accounting information system
• an insight into the managerial problems that are based on accounting information
• an introduction to utilising accounting information for problem solving
• a chance to apply the knowledge learned to actual case studies.

Topics include: introduction to accounting; financial statement analysis; how accounting information is recorded - the concepts behind accounting; how accounting information is recorded - recording the information, and raising capital; accounting and the manufacturing sector; cost behaviour; product costing systems; decision making - short term; decision making - long term; responsibility accounting; budgeting; budgeting - performance evaluation and designing a management accounting system.