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About the Course

Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s measurement role inside of an organization and how accountants communicate information that helps managers and employees make operational decisions. In particular, you will learn how cost information is created and organized to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop and choose products, make pricing decisions, and make common business decisions. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Identify the nature, purpose, and importance of different types of decision-useful accounting information. • Create, organize, and communicate cost information to best suit common operational decisions. • Use accounting information to manage products, control costs, and leverage other drivers of operational success. If you enjoy this business course and are interested in an MBA, consider applying to the iMBA, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price offered by the University of Illinois. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu....

Top reviews

SW

Mar 20, 2020

The materials are really easy to understand especially how to distinguish job and process costing

DK

Jun 26, 2018

This is very useful course to learn Business decision

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By JL E

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Aug 1, 2023

The lectures were well done. The course material was very interesting and well-presented. However, there were more than one example of multiple-choice tests where the answers were shaded too close to one another. And as someone who has chosen to be self-employed (resumes and bosses are a thing of the past) -- and is not particularly spun up about grades assigned in the late summer of life -- I'm not nitpicking. Some of the multiple-choice quiz answers need to be reevaluated to determine, "what am I really trying to teach here in this question?" Overall, but for the very specific issue of multiple choices quiz answers in certain tests, the total takeaway was that this was an excellent course.

By abdullah z

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Sep 26, 2023

By giving one star less is mean that there are some issues with some questions and the given options but overall it’s a very good course.

By Jodi M T

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Dec 16, 2021

The course itself was informative, but the wording of some questions in the quizzes leaves a lot to be desired.

By Mrqeoqqt

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Nov 21, 2020

Quizzez can be tricky and difficult. But the peer-review homework is interesting.

By Nancy H

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Oct 25, 2020

I am learning a lot. The courses are easy to understand.

By Sujan G

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Feb 13, 2018

Good course with lots to learn

By Sanskar V

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Nov 17, 2020

The course is good for getting to know about the internal decision making and accounting processes for any company; but the course quizzes has many incorrect answers which have been reported in the discussion forums but still remain erroneous. The explanation has not been upto the mark as compared to the first 2 courses in the specialization cause earlier they actually consulted real business people to portray the concepts of accounting in a lay man's terms which is quite easier for the students to grasp; in this course the faculty just used a tele-prompter or just read through the presentations. This course can be a lot better than it is now.

By Divya R

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Jun 15, 2020

I hate to give this course a 3 star because the content covered and peer assignments were interesting and I learnt a lot. I really loved the Managerial Accounting reading content. However the videos were not in par with the quizzes or reading content. The videos need to be a little more thorough and cover topics from the reading. After taking the first 2 courses in the series I was very dissapointed with this one.

By Henrique L B

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Aug 21, 2020

There are problems with the quizzes that makes the learning experience into a guessing experience. So the whole thing is kind of frustrating. But the content presented is good.

By Ahmed B

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Dec 19, 2017

The course is good that I have learned a lot, but the week number 2 exam is sort of difficult.

Thanks a lot Professor.

By Meredith K J

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Jul 6, 2021

The concepts were not gone over as thoroughly as I would have likes for the type of questions that were asked

By Teodora I

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Mar 19, 2017

The concepts are good but the delivery is quite dry. Very hard to pass the quizes, as there are no analogies or examples in the videos - just theory. I did not enjoy this course as much as I did the first two in the programme.

By Katrina V

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Apr 25, 2022

Bring back Kevin from the first two courses! Kevin challenged me based on the <<CONTENT>> of the course and I learned the content as a result of being challenged in that way.

Gary.. oh Gary.. your content is lifeless in comparison and the challenge from your course is based on the <<QUIZ FORMAT>> and how easy it is to lose my patience when the only way to pass the module exams are to write down every single question that comes up. Of course, the answers you submit (because the majority of questions have you select all that apply) get covered up BUT don't give you partial points for the Select All Applicable questions.

It took four or five attempts for me to pass Module 2. There are 18 questions on the exam and yet I have a list of 36 questions from the test bank pool. Good luck on what to tell Sharon, I have no clue what to tell her and I'm pretty sure that no one else does either. If I could give this course 0 Stars then I would. This course doubts my ability to be stubborn and power through to the end of this specialization as Gary makes his reapperance in Course 4.

By Pankaj D

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Feb 19, 2021

I am rating this course as one star only because of following reasons:

1) Quizzes don't get displayed correctly. This is the worst part of the course.

2) Several ultra short videos have been joined to create a lecture on a particular topic - which is quite annoying to watch.

3) Instructor is not articulate enough to explain the concept in lucid manner. He says same and same things again in different way. There seems to be loose connection between what instructor teaches and kinds of questions/quizzes given either during the lecture or in practice quizzes.

By Leslie G

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Mar 9, 2024

These courses are not being corrected when problems are being reported, gets to a point that you can not pass the quiz due to errors that haven't been fixed, and your are stuck there. Do not waste your time and money!!! The other courses I have taken through Coursera have been fantastic!

By YASHIKA G

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Jan 12, 2022

You Scumbags freaking morons ...changing questions ...dont know how to frame que ...

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