Activities in Management Accounting

ACTIVITIES IN MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING.

 1. Cookie Bake-off: Chips are part of the process costs.
 2. Budget Assumptions and Not-for-Profits: The case of the Unfunded Symphony.
 3. How Does Wall Street Influence Corporate Managers? A tie-in of financial accounting measures used by Wall Street for managerial decisions.
 4. Relevant Decision Making: Using a Major Ports franchise to analyze a "trade or keep" decision.
 5. Using Custom Software or Basic Spreadsheets to Prepare Budgets: A make or buy decision.
 6. The Federal Budget: Variance analysis.
 7. Cost-Volume-Profit and Pricing Strategies: Checkers vs. Big Mac.
 8. Activity Based Management: Always the best solution?
 9. Client Server Systems and Changes to Managerial Accounting Systems.
10. Transfer Pricing: Are vertical markets and internal competition always good for business? (GM strike)
11. Structured Controversy: TQM just a fad?
12. Comprehensive Study: What does it cost to make Brand X?
PROJECTS:

 1. Analysis of a Cost System.
 2. Campus Enterprises: Selling tee shirts (a start -to- finish project for a one semester course, integrating some financial accounting into the business operations).