About This Course

StraighterLine Managerial Accounting (ACC150) is ACE Credit–recommended (course code OOSL-0033) for 3 semester credits. You will distinguish managerial from financial accounting and examine how internal reporting supports planning, controlling, and evaluating performance; ethics in managerial settings; cost terminology and classification; job-order and process costing systems; activity-based costing versus volume-based overhead allocation; cost behavior and cost-volume-profit analysis including break-even reasoning; relevant costs, sunk costs, and opportunity costs for short-term decisions; budgeting and flexible budgets; responsibility accounting and performance evaluation; pricing and capital-budgeting orientation including time value of money as introduced. Includes digital textbook (Wild & Shaw, Managerial Accounting, 8th ed., McGraw Hill). Coursework uses checkpoints and benchmarks with a cumulative open-book benchmark; passing typically requires 70% or higher; scientific calculator allowed. No formal prerequisites, though completing introductory financial accounting first is strongly suggested. Membership required; transcript delivery included. Confirm transfer with your registrar.

General education & majors

Degree requirements differ by college and catalog year; always verify gen-ed rules and transfer credit with your advisor.

Typical sequence after introductory financial accounting for accounting and business majors; some institutions label this “cost” or “managerial” differently — confirm degree requirements and waiver rules.

What You'll Learn

  • Contrast managerial versus financial accounting and relate internal reports to planning and control decisions.
  • Analyze product and period costs using job-order, process, and activity-based costing approaches as presented.
  • Apply cost-volume-profit reasoning and contribution-margin thinking to operational scenarios.
  • Build and interpret budgets, flexible budgets, and responsibility-accounting summaries for decentralized units.
  • Evaluate short-term decisions using relevance, sunk costs, and opportunity-cost frameworks from the course.

About StraighterLine

StraighterLine offers ACE-recommended online college courses starting at $79. Credits transfer to 3,000+ colleges and universities nationwide, with guaranteed transfer to 180+ partner schools. Self-paced with 24/7 tutoring and free transcript delivery.

Accreditation: ACE-Recommended (American Council on Education)
Location: USA
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