ACCOUNTING 202
Principles of Accounting II
SPRING 2007
Course Syllabus

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to prepare students to compete in a competitive business environment by providing them with an understanding of a wide range of analytic tools and procedures used to support management decisions for planning, operating, and controlling business operations, as well as for improving effectiveness and efficiency.

Text: Managerial Accounting, (8th ed.) Warren, Reeve, Fess; Thomson-SouthWestern, ISBN: 0324188021

Class Schedule & Assignments

WEEK OF

Topic

Chap

Assignments

1/30

Video – “Greed”

Managerial Accounting Concepts & Principles; Job Order Cost Systems

M1

E-2, 6; 7; A-3

2/6

Process Cost Systems

M2

E-3, 5; A-4

2/13

Cost Behavior & Cost/Volume/Profit Analysis

M3

E-2, 3, 8; P-2A*; A-3 (Biography due 2/15)

2/20

Cost Behavior & Cost/Volume/Profit Analysis                                           

M3

 

2/27

Profit Reporting for Management Analysis

M4

E-2, 13; A-5

3/6

Budgeting

M5

E-6,7; P-4A*; A-6

3/13

EXAM 1 (Chaps. 1-5)

 

 

3/27

Standard Costs & Performance Evaluation

M6

E-1, 17; A-3

4/3

Decentralized Operation Performance Evaluation

M7

E-5, 10, 11; A-5, 6

4/10

Differential Analysis & Product Pricing 

M8

E-1, 3, 8*; A-3

4/17

Capital Investment Analysis

M9

E-1, 5, 7; A-6 

4/24

Cost Allocation & Activity Based Costing

M10

E-2, 13; A-4 

5/1

Cost Management & Just-in Time Manufacturing

M11

E-6, 8; A-4

5/8

Cash Flow Statements    

M12

E-5, 16; A-5

5/15

Financial Statement Analysis

M13

 

5/22

FINAL EXAM (4:15pm)

 

 

ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL INTEGRITY:   We do not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.

ASSIGNMENTS:  The specific reading assignments and homework problems due for each class session will be made during the preceding class. Each student should be prepared to present and discuss the solutions to all of the homework problems on the due date.  *Spreadsheet problems (3) will be solved using EXCEL and will be turned in on the due date. Submission must include separate formula sheet by cell. All assignments will be submitted as e-mail attachments.

CASE PRESENTATIONS:  Solutions to Activities (A) will be presented by two students who will have been assigned the problem in advance

WRITING ASSIGNMENT:  A writing assignment - Biography/Career Objectives - is due on February 15. It should be mechanically perfect (grammar, spelling, diction, and usage), content rich, and stylistically appropriate, and submitted as a double-spaced MS WORD document.

QUIZZES:  A short quiz on each chapter will be given at the beginning of the coverage of that chapter.

GRADING:  No make-up exams unless approved in advance.

Exam 1

30%

Final Exam

35

Case Presentation

10

Class Participation & HW

15

Writing Assignment

05

Quizzes

05

 

100%

 ATTENDANCE POLICY:  Attendance will be taken at each class meeting.  Absences will affect course grades as follows:

                      Absences                                   Letter Grade Reduction                                 

                           3-4                                                       1                                              

                           5-6                                                       2

This policy covers all absences and begins the 1st class period.

 

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