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Overview
In this Managerial Accounting - Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Illinois, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors with these resources.
You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy.
You will be able to:
- Understand the role of managerial accounting information and use it to avoid common pitfalls in business decisions
- Understand the iterative and interrelated nature of budgeting and apply the key components to preparing a master budget
- Evaluate capital investments via a variety of measures
- Calculate, interpret, and investigate variances
- Understand decentralization and its advantages and disadvantages
- Communicate the role of non-financial measures and strategic performance measurement systems
- Compute and interpret financial performance measures and identify associate issues
Skills you'll gain
- Accounting
- Leadership and Management
- Decision Making
- Budget Management
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Course Overview and Relevant Information for Decision Making
- Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
- Performance Measurement and Evaluation
- Budgeting for Planning and Control
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Mountain View, United States
Disciplines
Management Studies Accounting View 130 other Short Courses in Management Studies in United StatesWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Intermediate level
- Some related experience required
Tuition Fees
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Funding
Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project.
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