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Managerial Accounting: an Overview
ACCT116 Management Accounting Spring Semester 2012/13
Course Instructor Dr Emad AWADALLAH Library Building Basement Room B161 Email: emad.awadallah@qu.edu.qa

Contact Details
O Course Instructor: Dr Emad AWADALLAH

 My Office room: Library Building, Basement,

Room B161  Office Hours: Sunday Female 9:30-10:30 am  Office Hours: Thursday Male 9:30-10:30 am  E-mail: emad.awadallah@qu.edu.qa

Core Text Book

By Garrison, Noreen and Brewer, 14th edition, 2011.

Assessment
Grading
First Exam Second Exam Final Exam Quizzes

Points
20 25 40 10

Course Project

5

Indicative Content:
1.

2.
3. 4.  5. 6. 7.  8. 9. 

Managerial Accounting: An Overview Managerial Accounting & Cost Concepts Job-Order Costing Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Relationships Course Review (First Exam) CVP Relationships: Continuation Variable Costing & Segment Reporting Profit Planning Course Review (Second Exam) Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making Capital Budgeting Decisions Overall Review for the final exam

Management Accounting & Business Environment

Relevant Costs Analysis

Limiting Factors

Cost Classifications

Let us CVP now Analysis Break some WALLS!
Standard Costing

Throughput Accounting

Budgeting

Module Overview

BSC

LEARNING

Closed

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ACCT116 Lecture 1
Managerial Accounting: An Overview
Reading: Garrison et al. Chapter 1

Topic 1 Managerial Accounting: An Overview
O Reading:
 Chapter 1 in Garrison et al.

O Main Points to be covered: 1. What is Managerial Accounting? 2. Why does Managerial Accounting Matter to Your Career? 3. What Skills Do Managers Need to Succeed? 4. The Importance of Ethics in Business and 5. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Introduction to Accounting
O Accounting is concerned with providing

both financial & non-financial information ---------------------that will help decision-makers to make good decisions.

What Matters??
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert

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