Business-Administration - Course - Cost Accounting Seminar

This course aims to develop an understanding of the important characteristics of good cost systems and to analyze the role of cost information in a variety of management decisions. Through a number of case studies covering pricing, product mix, improving productivity, product design, and performance measurement, this course exposes candidates to recent advances in cost accounting, and highlights important inputs into the design of cost systems. The cases cover a variety of decision making settings and illustrate the role of cost information in these settings.