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Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis

Name: Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis
Rating: 8.8 (1139 reviews)

In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountant...

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In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers.

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• Understand what managerial accounting is and why it is an important function for successful businesses
• Identify problems associated with relying on financial accounting information for internal decision making
• Organize cost information according to the decision-making needs of the organization
• Apply activity-based costing (ABC) and recognize circumstances and decisions for which ABC systems are relevant
• Address common “what-if” questions using cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis and apply CVP in a variety of scenarios

This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. 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/.

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The average price is $10.2 of 295 Finance courses. So this course is 100% cheaper than the average Finance course on Coursera.

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YES, you can get a scholarship or Financial Aid for Coursera courses. The first step is to fill out an application about your educational background, career goals, and financial circumstances. Learn more about financial aid on Coursera.

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Gary Hecht, Ph.D.?

Gary Hecht, Ph.D. has created 9 courses that got 179 reviews which are generally positive. Gary Hecht, Ph.D. has taught 83,811 students and received a 4.66 average review out of 179 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Gary Hecht, Ph.D. is an instructor that you can trust.

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Gary Hecht, Ph.D.

Department of Accountancy, College of Business

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gary Hecht is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his B.A. degree from Illinois State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gary’s research is centered in management accounting – specifically, (1) the antecedents and consequences of subjective performance evaluation and (2) managers’ use of strategic performance measurement systems. Gary has taught management and cost accounting at the undergraduate level as well as in full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs. Gary also teaches various Ph.D. seminars.
Before turning to academics, Gary worked in public accounting at Crowe Chizek, focusing on both audit and tax services for financial institutions. Gary also worked at Landis and Gyr and ACCO Office Brands. At both of these firms, Gary worked in financial analysis and reporting, international consolidation and reporting, and internal consulting.

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