ACCT 550 - Cost Management for Controllership

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 300 and ACCT 250 or their equivalents.
Focuses on current approaches to management accounting by examining strategic cost management, activity-based management, strategic-based control, quality cost management, productivity measurement and control, measurement and control of environmental costs, inventory management, and international issues in cost management. Encourages students to increase their understanding of the relationship between controllership theory and practice. Requires students to complete independent research projects.