Fundamentals of financial accounting concepts and procedures for analyzing economic events and the preparation and use of financial statements.

Fundamentals of financial accounting concepts and procedures for analyzing economic events and the preparation and use of financial statements.

The use of information by managers to (1) determine the cost and profitability of the organization's products or services; (2) plan, control, and evaluate routine operations; and (3) make special non-routine decisions. The demand for managerial accounting information is derived from an integrated treatment of organizational objectives, an orientation to customers, and a focus on activities as the unit of analysis for measurement of cost, quality, and time. Prereq: ADMN 502.

Introductory coverage of statistical methods for managerial decision-making: probability. descriptive and inferential statistics, and regression. Quantitative techniques common to many introductory statistics courses are covered, but the emphasis is on understanding concepts such as uncertainty, inferences from sample data, and model formulation, and on utilizing these techniques as aids in decision-making. Prereq: ADMN 403, MATH 420 or MATH 422 or MATH 424A or MATH 424B or MATH 425.