ACCT 4320

Students will study a variety of management accounting topics including flexible budgets, standard costs, variance analysis and investigation decisions, cost behavior, cost allocation. Topics also covered are: linear programming, joint products and by-products, special issues of process costing, alternative inventory models, pricing theory and strategies, and decentralization and transfer pricing. In addition, the course will cover the quality, operations costing, statistical analysis and linear models as well as selected current issues.