Introduction to Financial Accounting

<p>I. FOCUS ON DECISION MAKING</p> <ol start="1"> <li>1. Managerial Accounting, the Business Organization, and Professional Ethics</li> <li> 2. Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume Relationships </li> <li>3. Measurement of Cost Behavior </li> <li>4. Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing </li> <li>5. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Pricing Decisions </li> <li>6. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Operational Decisions</li> </ol> <p> II. ACCOUNTING FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL</p> <ol start="7"> <li>7. Introduction to Budgets and Preparing the Master Budget </li> <li>8. Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis </li> <li>9. Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting </li> <li>10. Management Control in Decentralized Organizations</li> </ol> <p> III. CAPITAL BUDGETING</p> <ol start="11"> <li>11. Capital Budgeting</li> </ol> <p>IV. PRODUCT COSTING</p> <ol start="12"> <li>12. Cost Allocation </li> <li>13. Accounting for Overhead Costs </li> <li>14. Job-Costing and Process-Costing Systems</li> </ol> <p>V. BASIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING</p> <ol start="15"> <li>15. Basic Accounting: Concepts, Techniques, and Conventions </li> <li>16. Understanding Corporate Annual Reports: Basic Financial Statements </li> <li>17. Understanding and Analyzing Consolidated Financial Statements </li> </ol>