Description: ACTIVITIES IN MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING. 1. Cookie Bake-off: Chips are part of the process costs. 2. Budget Assumptions and Not-for-Profits: The case of the Unfunded Symphony. 3. How Does Wall Street Influence Corporate Managers? A tie-in of financial accounting measures used by Wall Street for managerial decisions. 4. Relevant Decision Making: Using a Major Ports franchise to analyze a "trade or keep" decision. 5. Using Custom Software or Basic Spreadsheets to Prepare Budgets: A make or buy decision. 6. The Federal Budget: Variance analysis. 7. Cost-Volume-Profit and Pricing Strategies: Checkers vs. Big Mac. 8. Activity Based Management: Always the best solution? 9. Client Server Systems and Changes to Managerial Accounting Systems. 10. Transfer Pricing: Are vertical markets and internal competition always good for business? (GM strike) 11. Structured Controversy: TQM just a fad? 12. Comprehensive Study: What does it cost to make Brand X? PROJECTS: 1. Analysis of a Cost System. 2. Campus Enterprises: Selling tee shirts (a start -to- finish project for a one semester course, integrating some financial accounting into the business operations).

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