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Course Online Syllabus

Spring 2012

Department ACCTCourse Number3311 Section Number23322
Name of Course Costs/Budgets
Name of Instructor Lee,Yong-Gyo

This information may not constitute all course policies; students are responsible for all course requirements established by their instructors during the semester and all institutional policies as established in the UHV student handbook.


Learning Objectives

As a result of this course, students will

  1. Comprehend job cost, process cost and activity based costing of product
  2. Understand and use fixed and variable costs for decision making
  3. Understand the differences between activity based and conventional
  4. Comprehend constructing a model for decision making
  5. Understand how to construct a basic budget for planning and control

Major Assignments/Exams

Homework & Class Participation 10%
Test 1 200 points
Test 2 200 points
Test 3 200 points
Costs and Budgets Project 200 points
Homeworks and Class Participation 200 points

Required Reading

Horngren, Datar, and Rajan, Cost Accounting,14th ed., ISBN 0132109174.


Recommended Reading

No additional readings have been recommended for this course.


List of Discussion/Lecture Topics

  • Introduction
  • Ch 1: The Manages and , Management Accounting
  • Ch 2: Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes
  • Ch 3: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
  • Ch 4: Job Costing
  • Exam #1
  • Ch 5: Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Cost Management
  • Ch 6: Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting
  • Spring Break
  • Ch 7: Flexible Budgets, Direct Cost Variance and Management Control
  • Ch 9: Inventory Costing and Capacity Analysis
  • Exam #2
  • Ch 11: Decision Making and Relevant Information
  • Ch 12: Pricing Decision and Cost Management
  • Ch 13: Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Profitability Analysis
  • Review
  • Exam #3