MBA 5140 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions I

1.5 units
MBA Program
Telfer School of Management
Use of accounting information in decision-making by internal users. The role of accounting in the evaluation, control, and decision-making of business managers. Using ratio analysis, performing a business diagnostic in terms of management, profit, liquidity and solvency. The relationship between cost structures and profit (profit threshold, cost-volume-benefit analysis). Use of appropriate costs in making performance-driven decisions. Understanding budgets for planning purposes. Differentiate different types of budget. Gap analysis in budgetary control. MBA 5141 and MBA 5142, together, are equivalent to MBA 5340 .

Components:

Lecture

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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