Checking date: 24/03/2025 09:48:09


Course: 2025/2026

Accounting for top management
(13203)
Dual Bachelor in International Studies and Business Administration (2015 Study Plan) (Plan: 349 - Estudio: 319)


Coordinating teacher: NUÑEZ NICKEL, MANUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Management Accounting Management Control or Planning and Management Control It is recommended not to use Artificial Intelligence for two reasons. The first is because the tasks are so specific to the class taught that the answers through Artificial Intelligence do not come close to what is being sought. The result is usually a very low grade, if not zero. The second is whether the use of AI by the student can lead to academic fraud. In which case, if it gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of the work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Regulations of the Carlos III University of Madrid of partial development of Law 3/2022, of 24 will apply. February, university coexistence.
Objectives
Knowledge: - Integrated version of the contexts of operational, organizational and behavioral in which they develop accounting information systems for top managers management Skills: - Ability to analyze information available to top managers - Choice between alternative information models. - Ability to design models of accounting information Attitudes: - Acquire an ethical decision making of top managers - To defend their own choices. - Accepting the views of other colleagues, while maintaining a critical attitude towards them.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction, Relevant costs and Decision Making 2. Activity Based Management 3. Benchmarking 4. Business Process Re-engineering 5. Pricing Strategies and Exercises 6. Target Costing 7. Just in time and Kaizen 8. Life cycle Costing 9. Total Quality Costs and Management 10. Environmental Accounting and Cost Management
Learning activities and methodology
Students as future managers will be trained in decision-making techniques on advance topics of management control. The methodology of teaching-learning for applying has three components: 1) Learning development through theory clases. 2) Technical skills development through exercises and cases solving by the student and discussed in the classroom. 3) Solution and problems detection skill through the resolution of cases by the Harvard methodology and complementary activities. 4) Tutorials: group and individual, to reinforce the learning.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • HORNGREN et al. (coordinado por Susana Gago). Control de gestión y contabilidad directiva. Pearson Educación. 2014
  • HORNGREN et al. (coordinated by Susana Gago). Management control and managerial accounting. Pearson Education. 2014

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.