MBA 5340 Financial Accounting

3 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. Accounting activities. Treatment of indirect costs in costing (products and services). Activity and process management. Use of cost inducers in cost management strategy. Evaluating performance. Accounting issues related to sustainable development.

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All Professors
A- Average (8.095)
Most Common: A- (30%)
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Marc Tassé

4 sections from Summer 2017 to Winter 2024

A- Average (8.397)
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John Jarecsni

Fall 2023 - A00

B+ Average (6.857)
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Chris Liboiron

Winter 2023 - BH00

A- Average (8.364)
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Philip McIlkenny

2 sections during Fall 2022

A- Average (8.250)
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Bruce Millar

Fall 2019 - A00

B+ Average (7.448)
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Darlene Himick

2 sections from Fall 2017 to Fall 2018

A- Average (7.931)
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