Accounting Electives for MBAs

Spring 2013

BUS 513Managerial Accounting

• Not financial accounting.• Not undergraduate cost accounting.• How managers use info to make decisions.• Main Topics:

– Analytical Tools for making strategic and operational decisions.

– Strategic Cost Management.– Performance Measurement.

• Audience – Mktg, Consulting, General Mgmt, Corp Finance.

• Practical Focus.

BUS 514Financial Statement Analysis

• BUS514 is a rigorous extension of BUS 512, focused on decision-making using financial statement data.

• Focus on forecasting and financial statement projection with many possible applications:– Equity Valuation– Credit and Risk Analysis.– Mergers and Acquisitions.– Corporate Restructuring.

• Largely case-based.• Culminating group project is an equity analyst’s

report on a Fortune 500 company.

BUS 519Advanced Financial Reporting• A deep dive into financial statements with a

focus on earnings quality:– Become footnote literate.– Unravel earnings management.– Take apart a firm’s financial statements.– Cutting edge topics.– Completely case based.

• Work involved is intense but rewarding!• Relation to 514?

Concluding Remarks• Do you want to pursue accounting to a

deeper level?• Financial Reporting II and Advanced

Financial Accounting are available and cross-listed with BBAs.

• This and other cross-listed courses can allow MBAs to dig deep into accounting.– Contact Mary Sevier

Plan Ahead• Most electives are offered only once

per year.• Be looking next fall for:

– Information and Global Capital Markets.– Federal Income Taxation.