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Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions

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Course Features

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Duration

25 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

25 hours

Course Description

This course will teach you how to use accounting to allocate resources and to incentivize employee and manager behavior with these resources. This course will teach you how financial and nonfinancial accounting information can be used to measure strategic performance and how to combine this information to improve your strategy.

You will be able: * To understand the role of managerial accounting information, and to use it to avoid common pitfalls when making business decisions Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.

Course Overview

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Calculate, interpret, and investigate variances

Communicate the role of non-financial measures and strategic performance measurement systems

Compute and interpret financial performance measures and identify associate issues

Evaluate capital investments via a variety of measures

Understand decentralization and its advantages and disadvantages

Understand the iterative and interrelated nature of budgeting and apply the key components to preparing a master budget

Understand the role of managerial accounting information and use it to avoid common pitfalls in business decisions

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