ACC 3040: Cost Accounting focuses on accounting's role in product costing, planning, control, and decision-making for both businesses and non-profits. By equipping students with strategic cost management principles, the course emphasizes how management accountants use timely information to guide firms towards achieving their goals. Topics include process costing, activity-based costing, target costing, and strategic performance measurement, all with a focus on applying these concepts to real-world scenarios through case studies and discussions.

When you've completed this course, you should be able to:

• understand the fundamentals of management accounting, including the strategic focus, and other basic cost terms and concepts;
• determine product costs;
• use costs and other critical success factors in management planning and decision making;
• use costs and other critical success factors in operational control;
• and, use costs and other critical success factors in management control.

ACC 1100  

ACC 2010  

ACC 2020