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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ACG5005
Tracking Number - 4837
Current Status:
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Campus: St Petersburg
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
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Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2013-10-23
- Department: Business Administration
- College: BP
- Budget Account Number: 140100
- Contact Person: Alison Watkins
- Phone: 7278734086
- Email: awatkins@usfsp.edu
- Prefix: ACG
- Number: 5005
- Full Title: MBA Essentials: Managerial Accounting
- Credit Hours: 0
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: Y
- If repeatable, how many times?: 3
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): MBA Essentials: Managerial Acc
- Course Online?: O -
Online (100% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
S - S/U Only
- Prerequisites: Admission to Graduate School
- Corequisites: Admission to Graduate School
- Course Description: This course is a survey course in managerial accounting. Specifically, the course will examine the determination of the cost of providing goods and services, cost behavior patterns, cost-volume-profit analysis and relevant information for decision-makin
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Replacing Selected Topics with Permanent number; already listed in program
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is needed by all USFSP MBA students who do not have an academic background in business or whose undergraduate courses in accounting were taken more than 7 years before entering graduate school.
This course serves no other program.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Terminal Degree Only
- Objectives: 1. Introduce the students to the role of managerial accounting
2. Introduce the students to the concepts of information processing for cost accounting purposes.
3. Introduce students to the concept of relevant costing and managerial decision making.
4. Introduce students to the practice of activity-based costing
5. Introduce students to capital budgeting decisions
- Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course the student should be able to:
1. Understand the role of the managerial accountant;
2. Comprehend the basics of job costing and process costing
3. Be able to determine relevant costs in any decision-process
4. Understand the concepts of activity based costing
5. Comprehend the basics of cost-volume-profit analysis
6. Understand the concepts of capital investing and the time value of money
- Major Topics: 1. Introduction to Managerial Accounting
2. Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting
3. Job Costing
4. Activity Based Costing and the Costs of Quality
5. Process Costing
6. Cost Behavior
7. Cost-Volume Profit Analysis
8. Relevant Costing
9. Performance Evaluation
10. Capital Investment Decisions; Time Value of Money
- Textbooks: Managerial Accounting, 2nd edition, Braun, Tietz, Harrison, Prentice Hall
(This is the book used for the 2013 version of the course.)
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: From the Braun et. al. text:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Chapter 2 Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting
Chapter 3 Job Costing
Chapter 4: Activity Based Costing and the Costs of Quality
Chapter 5: Process Costing
Chapter 6 Cost Behavior (eliminate the appendix)
Chapter 7 Cost-Volume Profit Analysis
Chapter 8 Short-Term Business Decisions
Chapter 10: Performance Evaluation
Chapter 12: Capital Investment Decisions; Time Value of Money
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Students must pass an online quiz for each assigned chapter, scoring at least 80%. Students may retake exams as many times as they wish. They must pass each exam in sequential order, i.e., they cannot take a chapter quiz unless they have passes all the previous chapters. After scoring at least 80% on all exams the students are awarded an S=Satisfactory grade.
There is no time limit as when the student must complete this course. Students can take as long as they want, even in excess of a year or more, to complete the exams.
Students with Disabilities:
Please notify your instructor if you have a learning disability or require special assistance with this portion of Essentials. Confidential personal and learning assistance counseling are made available to students through the USFSP Division of Student Affairs. Contact R. Barry McDowell (mcdowell@stpt.usf.edu) for more information.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Managerial Accounting (Braun Text)
S= Short Problems E = Exercises
Chapter 1: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
S 1 - 4, 6, E 10, 16, 17
Chapter 2 : Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting
S 1 - 7, 9 - 13, E 19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 31
Chapter 3: Job Costing
S 1 - 7, E 17, 21, 22, 29
Chapter 4: Activity Based Costing and the Costs of Quality
S 1-8, E 20-22
Chapter 5: Process Costing
S 1-7 E 21-25
Chapter 6 Cost Behavior (eliminate the appendix)
S 1- 9, 13, 15, E 19 - 21
Chapter 7 Cost-Volume Profit Analysis
S 1- 8, E 15 - 18, 21, 22
Chapter 8 Short-Term Business Decisions
S 1-14, E 15 - 22, 24 - 27
(Relevant Costing)
Chapter 10: Performance Evaluation
S 1-12, E 18-26
Chapter 12: Capital Investment Decisions; Time Value of Money
S 1-10, E 17-26
Students must pass an online quiz for each assigned chapter, scoring at least 80%. Students may retake exams as many times as they wish. They must pass each exam in sequential order, i.e., they cannot take a chapter quiz unless they have passes all the previous chapters. After scoring at least 80% on all exams the students are awarded an S=Satisfactory grade.
- Attendance Policy: No first class attendance policy due to the nature of this course. Students can begin the class at any time. There are no scheduled exams. Students take the exams according to their own schedules. The schedule for the course is not part of the regular semester, so there are no religious conflicts. Students can alter when they take the online exams based on their own personal needs.
There is no time limit as when the student must complete this course. Students can take as long as they want, even in excess of a year or more, to complete the exams. Thus, there will be no conflict with religious holidays as the date a student takes an exam, as well as when they can finish the course, is entirely at their own discretion.
- Policy on Make-up Work: There is no set make-up policy. Students can begin the class at any time. There are no scheduled exams. Students take the exams according to their own schedules. The schedule for the course is not part of the regular semester, so no regularly scheduled exam is ever missed. Students can alter when they take the online exams based on their own personal needs.
There is no time limit as when the student must complete this course. Students can take as long as they want, even in excess of a year or more, to complete the exams.
See USF Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Disruption of Academic Process at www.ugs.usf.edu/catalogs/0304/adadap.htm
Because of the University’s commitment to academic integrity, plagiarism or cheating on course work or on examinations will result in penalties that may include a grade of “unsatisfactory” for this portion of the Essentials Program. Any incident of academic dishonesty will be reported to the dean of the college. Definitions and punishment guidelines for Plagiarism, Cheating, and Student Disruption of the Academic Process may be found at the web address listed above.
- Program This Course Supports: USFSP MBA Program
- Course Concurrence Information: None. It only supports the USFSP MBA Program
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.