AMIS 3300 – Cost Accounting
Summer Semester 2013
Course Syllabus
Instructor:
Office:
Phone:
Email:
Austin Sudbury
328 Fisher Hall
614-292-7245
sudbury_2@fisher.osu.edu
Office Hours:
Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00 AM and Thursday 1:00 – 2:00 PM
(Please email the instructor for appointments at other times)
Class Schedule:
Class Location:
Tuesday/Thursday 2:20 – 3:40 PM
215 Schoenbaum Hall
Required Course Materials
1. Cost Management: Accounting and Control, 4th Edition, by Hansen and Mowen
2. Non-programmable (non-graphing) calculator to be used on exams
Course Objective and Description
Cost Accounting provides coverage of the financial measurements, calculations, and reports used
internally by an organization to make a variety of business decisions. Specific topics discussed
are costing of products and services, decisions analysis, and control and evaluation in
organizations.
Course Website
All class communications, lecture materials, homework solutions, and other relevant information
(including announcements or schedule changes) will be handled through Carmen at
http://carmen.osu.edu.
Class Expectations
The university awards three credit hours for this course. Students should expect to spend a
minimum of six (6) hours each week in addition to class time on AMIS 3300. The homework
assignments have been selected with that time frame in mind.
Students will be expected to thoroughly prepare for class by doing the assigned readings and
working the assigned practice problems (see the course schedule). Time in class will be spent
reinforcing and/or clarifying what students have already tried to learn on an individual or group
basis prior to the beginning of each class. While lectures will be utilized to underscore the most
important points and to provide additional perspective, participation from students will be
expected on a regular basis.
Finally, regular class attendance is important. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to
ensure that you understand the material covered that day.
Quizzes
Six (6) homework quizzes will be given online through the Carmen course website during the
semester. Each assignment will consist of 5-7 questions, for a total of 30 points per assignment.
Only the best 5 of out the 6 possible scores will be used in determining a student’s final grade.
No late submissions will be accepted for any reason.
All homework quizzes are to be taken online through the course website. The quizzes are openbook quizzes meaning students may use notes, textbooks and other reference materials to
complete the quizzes. Additionally, the quizzes are not timed so students may take as much time
as needed to complete each quiz. Quizzes may be submitted early but not later than 11:00 pm on
the dates noted in the course schedule.
Students may open and close the quizzes in Carmen as many times as needed during the week,
but quizzes may only be submitted once. Please do not submit the quiz until you have answered
all questions and are ready to turn in your answers for grading. Your quiz grade will not be
viewable until after the deadline for the quiz. In other words, if you submit your quiz early you
will not see your grade until after 11:00 on the due date.
The answers to the quizzes with accompanying explanations on how to solve the problems will
be available after the deadline for each quiz. The quiz solutions can be accessed by clicking on
‘content’ on the top navigation bar and then scrolling down to the header labeled ‘quiz
solutions’.
Exams
Three exams will be given throughout the course. The exams are not comprehensive and will
cover only the materials in the chapters designated. If you miss an examination for a valid reason
(e.g., sickness, death in immediate family) and provide sufficient documentation to support your
situation, you will receive an excused absence. The final grade for those students receiving an
excused absence will be determined by the method the instructor assigns at the time the absence
is judged excused. If you receive an excused absence from the final examination, you will
receive an incomplete grade until you complete a make-up exam. If you miss any examination
without receiving an excused absence, your score for that examination will be zero.
Course Grades
Grading is based on the following:
Exam #1
280 points
Exam #2
280 points
Exam #3
290 points
Homework Quizzes (5 x 30 points)
150 points
Total Possible Points
1,000 points
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