Home - Search by Faculty - By teacher - By course


GEST0367-1

Management Accounting


Duration :30h Th
Credits/ECTS :
2nd year of a management engineering's degree3,5
2nd "licence" in management sciences4
Holder(s) :Didier Van Caillie
Course contents : This course presents the main techniques used in management accounting and shows why they are useful in a decision-making perspective.

Having highlighted the specificities of management accounting and havind defined its main terms and concepts, this course presents first the cost accumulation process for inventory valuation and profit measurement. Then, it proposes an in-depth analysis of the different techniques used to manage accounting information in a decision-making perspective (cost-volume-profit analysis, activity-based and process-based costing, profitability analysis and pricing decisions and decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty).
Course objective : In-depth mastery of specific mechanisms in management accounting
Prerequisites : Principles of business accounting
Workshops : Three sessions of exercises, still to be determined.
Organization : 30 hours, 1st quadrimester.

Auditorium KEYNES, each Tuesday, from 10.00 to 12.30.

Starting date : 04.10.2005
Written notes : Van Caillie D. (2005) : Principes de comptabilité analytique et de comptabilité de gestion, Liège : Editions de l'Université de Liège - 2ème édition, 242 p.
Assessment : Only a written exam, in JANUARY, with two parts : some theoretical questions (40 %) and some applications (60 %).
Contacts : Professor :
VAN CAILLIE Didier
Boulevard du Rectorat 7, B31 - Bte 53 - 4000 LIEGE
Tél. : 04/366.31.04 - Fax: 04/366.28.21
E-mail : D.VanCaillie@ulg.ac.be




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
Developed by SEGI