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GEST0368-1

Analytical Accounting


Duration :30h Th
Credits/ECTS :
2nd "licence" in computer3
2nd "licence" in company management4
Master in management sciences4
1re licence en gestion de l'entreprise4
1e année du grade de master en sciences de gestion à finalité spécialisée4
Master en sciences de gestion4
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 analytical accounting
Prerequisites : Principles of business accounting
Workshops : Three sessions of exercises, still to be determined.
Organization : 30 hours, 2nd quadrimester.
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 JUNE, 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
Remarks : This cours may not be chosen simultaneously with the course "Management Accounting"




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