Managerial Accounting Fundamentals

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the fundamentals of managerial accounting including how to navigate the financial and related information managers need to help them make decisions. You'll learn about cost behavior and cost allocation systems, how to conduct cost-volume-profit analysis, and how to determine if costs and benefits are relevant to your decisions. By the end of this course, you wi

• Identify different cost types and represent them graphically
• Perform cost-volume-profit analysis to assess break-even and profits
• Calculate and allocate overhead in traditional and activity-based costing systems
• Distinguish relevant and irrelevant costs and benefits for managerial decisions