Managerial Accounting - Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis Coursera

Overview

In this Managerial Accounting - Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Illinois, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. 

You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers. 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand what managerial accounting is and why it is an important function for successful businesses

• Identify problems associated with relying on financial accounting information for internal decision making

• Organize cost information according to the decision-making needs of the organization

• Apply activity-based costing (ABC) and recognize circumstances and decisions for which ABC systems are relevant

• Address common "what-if" questions using cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis and apply CVP in a variety of scenarios

Skills you'll gain

• Management Accounting

• Accounting

• Financial Accounting

• Variance Analysis

• Supply Chain

• Accounting Systems

• Cost Estimation

• Operations Management

• Financial Statements

• Cost Accounting