Acctg 5315 - Accounting Topics
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Course Number and Time: ACCTG 5315.w01
Course Name: Accounting Topics
Professor: Dr. Lelkes
Email: Anne-Marie.Lelkes@tamucc.edu
Office Hours: All questions you have concerning the material are to be posted in the discussion forum in Blackboard.
Required Materials: Warren, Reeve and Duchac. Financial and Managerial Accounting. 12th edition, looseleaf (no other edition is acceptable). CengageNOW is also required. ISBN: 9781285581521. To purchase the textbook and CengageNOW as a bundle and at a discount, go to http://banner.tamucc.edu/schedule/ select the correct Term and ACCT – Accounting. The far right hand column has a link for “View Books”. Click on that link and it will take you to the TAMUCC bookstore.
CengageNOW: Required for Pre-Test, Financial Exam, Managerial Accounting Quizzes, and Comprehensive Managerial Accounting Exam. It also contains your scores for all of those. Instructions to login are provided on last page of this syllabus after the schedule.
Blackboard 9.1: See Blackboard 9.1 for postings, announcements, discussion forum, etc.
Prerequisites: ACCT 5312 or equivalent
Course Description: A continuation of financial accounting including analysis and interpretation of financial statements as well as extensive coverage of cost and managerial accounting.
Relationship to Other Coursework: This course is part of the MBA advanced requirements. It is designed as the fundamental graduate course in accounting required to achieve the MBA degree. Its purpose is to provide the MBA student with an advanced study of financial statements and managerial accounting techniques in order to understand the role of accounting information in an organization.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- use technology to conduct in-depth business valuation models and be able to interpret and use the model results to make informed business decisions
- use accounting information to make business decisions
- understand and interpret the financial reports of firms in different industries
- recognize the potential effects on financial results of management decisions, corporate transactions, and the adoption of different accounting policies
- communicate effectively with other users of company financial reports
Instructional Methodology: CengageNOW and Blackboard. The focus for most of the semester is on Managerial Accounting. Read all chapters and go through the videos and other preparatory items in CengageNOW. Quizzes and exams cover the textbook as well as videos and study tools in CengageNOW.
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