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Financial & managerial accounting
MGT-481
Lecturer(s) :
Cauvin EricLanguage:
English
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MA3 Only. Special schedule. See the MTE website: http://cdm.epfl.ch/mte/study-planSummary
The aims of the course are to explain how information helps investors to analyze the financial profile of a company, and to provide analytical tools for assisting managers in evaluating various decisions within economic organizations. Summary (fr)? Content? The main financial statements Basic accContent
- The main financial statements
- Basic accounting concepts, techniques and corporate annual reports
- Essential concepts and techniques of cost accounting and their application to the business
- The ways and means by which cost accounting techniques are brought to bear on the operational decision-making process that enable operating managers in making effective economic decisions
- Implementation of the budgeting process and financial performance measurement
- Measurement of the global performance
Keywords
Financial accounting, managerial accounting, management control, performance control
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:- Explain major accounting concepts
- Analyze the financial statements of a company
- Analyze accounting information to manage a project or a department
- Interpret major accounting documents
- Elaborate and manage a budget
- Estimate the performance of a project or a department
Transversal skills
- Communicate effectively with professionals from other disciplines.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions/case studies
Expected student activities
Class attendance, exercises and cases
Assessment methods
50% Case study
50% Final written exam (closed-book)
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Bibliography
Weetman Pauline, Financial and Management Accounting. An Introduction, Fourth Edition, FT, Prentice Hall, 2006
Williams, Haka, Bettner, Financial and Managerial Accounting, 2005
Ressources en bibliothèque
In the programs
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
4 - Subject examined
Financial & managerial accounting - Number of places
90 - Lecture
3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
4 - Subject examined
Financial & managerial accounting - Number of places
90 - Lecture
3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- Energy Management and Sustainability, 2020-2021, Master semester 1
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
4 - Subject examined
Financial & managerial accounting - Number of places
90 - Lecture
3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- Energy Management and Sustainability, 2020-2021, Master semester 3
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
4 - Subject examined
Financial & managerial accounting - Number of places
90 - Lecture
3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
4 - Subject examined
Financial & managerial accounting - Number of places
90 - Lecture
3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
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Lecture
Exercise, TP
Project, other
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- Autumn semester
- Winter sessions
- Spring semester
- Summer sessions
- Lecture in French
- Lecture in English
- Lecture in German