37995 - Crash Course in Financial and Management Accounting

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Sara Bonini Baraldi
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (cod. 0902)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Learning outcomes

- To develop a general understanding of the accounting information.

- To learn how the accounting information can be used to make economic decisions and informed judgment

- to develop a general understanding of costs behaviour for planning, controlling and decision making processes

The teaching language is ENGLISH

Course contents

 

SCHEDULE

 1. Wed. Sept 30- h. 13-16

2. Thurs. oct 1 - h. 13-16

3. Fri. oct 2 - h. 13-16

4. Thurs. oct 8 - h. 16-19

5. Fri. oct 9 - h. 13-16

6. Wed. oct 14 - h. 13-16

7. Thurs. oct 15 - h. 13-16

8. Fri. oct 16 - h 13 -16

9. Wed. oct 21 - h. 13-16

10. Thrus. oct 22 - h.16-19

 

 

 

Course contents

 

Class One

 

Introduction, Syllabus and Schedule

 

Accounting, financial accounting

 

Chapter 1

 

 

 

Class Two

 

Financial statements: Balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in owners' equity, statement of cash flows - Exercises

 

Chapter 2

 

 

 

Class Three

 

From transactions to financial statements: The bookkeeping process and transaction analysis - Exercises

 

Chapter 4

 

 

 

Class Four

 

From transactions to financial statements: the ending adjustments

 

Chapter 4 (continues)

 

 

 

Class Five

 

 Financial statement analysis

 

Chapter 3,
Chapter 11: pp 408-415 + 419-426

 

 

 

Class Six

 

Managerial accounting and cost-volume-profit relationships

 

Chapter 12

 

 

 

Class seven

 

Cost-volume-profit relationships (continues) and cost accounting

 

Chapter 12 (continues), chapter 13 (pp.490-503)

 

 

 

Class eight

 

Relevant costs for decision making purposes

 

Chapter 16 (pp. 616 - 630)

 

  

 

Class nine

 

 Cost analysis for planning

 

Chapter 14 (pp. 534 – 551)

 

 

 

Class ten

Exam

Readings/Bibliography

Marshall, McManus, Viele. Accounting. What numbers mean. McGrawHill [8th edition or previous editions]

Teaching methods

- lessons

- exercises

Assessment methods

written exam - 2 hours

10 multiple choice questions + 2 short exercises

Evaluation: pass/fail (no mark) NB: for the students who will not pass the exam, the exam of “New Public Management” will include an additional part assessing the students preparation in Financial and management accounting

 

First try: Thursday nov. 5th h. 13-15

Teaching tools

- ppt presentations

Office hours

See the website of Sara Bonini Baraldi