Management Accounting and Control

A close-up of a pencil sitting on top of a latop.

A computer showing accounting information. (Image by Matthew Palmer.)

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MIT Course Number

15.521

As Taught In

Spring 2003

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

This course examines management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision making and control in profit-directed organizations. It also defines product costing, budgetary control systems, and performance evaluation systems for planning, coordinating, and monitoring the performance of a business. This course defines principles of measurement and develops framework for assessing behavioral dimensions of control systems; impact of different managerial styles on motivation and performance in an organization.

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Joseph Weber. 15.521 Management Accounting and Control. Spring 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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