Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will understand cash and accrual accounting, basic recordkeeping, ledger and journal entries and financial statement preparation.
Agenda
- Qualitative vs. Quantitative Decision-Making
- Standards
- Effective and Efficient Decisions
- Constraints
- The Balance Sheet and Income Statement
- Statements of Cash Flow
- What the Financial Statements Do Not Tell You
- Maximizing Profit or Minimizing Cost
- Thinking in Units
- Defining Cost
- Fixed, Variable, and Mixed Costs
- Relevant Range
- Cost Per Unit
- Cost Categories on the Income Statement
- Discerning Variable Costs
- Discerning Mixed Costs
- Contribution Margin on the Income Statement
- Activity-Based Costing
- Non-Value-Added Activity
- The Cost-Volume-Profit Graph
- The Contribution Margin Approach to Break-Even
- Calculating ‘What If’ Profit
- Margin of Safety
- Defining Operating Leverage
- Operating Leverage and the Bottom Line
- Pricing in Line with the Competition
- Trade-Offs Between Price and Demand
- Elasticity of Demand Illustrated
- Market and Cost Influences on Pricing
- Qualitative Factors in Relation to Price
- Responsible Decision-Making
- Quality Mangement
FREE
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Course Type: Instructor Led