MBA: HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course title:
Instructor:
Phone No.:
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E-mail:
Management Accounting (HSM 606)
Professor Mishiel Suwaidan
7211111 (6723)
3 Credit hours
msuwaidan@yu.edu.jo
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide introductory level of instruction to
graduate students of health services management who are studying
management accounting for the first time.
It offers fundamentals of financial accounting and management
accounting concepts and techniques that will help individuals prepare for
work in an environment where an understanding of management
accounting is important to success.
In general this course covers two main areas: accounting principles and
managerial accounting.
Specific Course Objectives:
After completing this course, you should:
1. Understand fundamentals of financial accounting and complete
accounting cycle.
2. be able to prepare and analyze financial statements
3. Understand fundamentals of management accounting.
4. Be able to use management accounting tools to solve common
business management problems and understand the impact of
decisions of both internal and external financial statements.
Assessment:
First Exam
Second Exam
Assignments
Final Exam
Total
25 points
25 points
10 points
40 points
------------100 points
Course Materials:
Weekly schedule lists chapters that will be covered from each of the
following text books:
1. Weygandt, Kieso, and Kimmel, Accounting principles, 10th
edition, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.
2. Weygandt, Kimmel and Kieso, Managerial Accounting, 6th
edition, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.
3. Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, Managerial Accounting, 12th
edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008
4. David W. Young, Management Accounting in Health care
Organizations, Jossey-Bass, Sept. 2003.
Textbook web page:
On line tutors and quizzes are available at the Garrison & Noreen
Managerial Accounting 12th edition textbook website:
http://www.mhhe.com/garrison 10e
Additional Information:
- Teaching Methods: Lectures, cases, project.
- Examinations: Student will be examined in theory and its
application. Exam questions may consist of multiple choices, short
and long problems. You are responsible for all material covered in
the text, readings, homework, or lectures. No make-up exams will
be given. Grade related to excused absences at mid term exam will
be added to the final exam. A student must submit in writing to the
instructor concerned the reasons for the absence no later than three
days as of the resumption of attendance. Unexcused absences result
in grade of zero for that particular exam.
Class Schedule
Month
February
March
April
May
Date
Day
Chapter
7
Thu.
Accounting principles
14
Thu.
Accounting principles
21
Thu.
Accounting principles
28
Thu.
Accounting Principles
7
Thu.
First Exam
14
Thu.
21
Thu.
Managerial Accounting
Ch.1 & Ch. 2 Managerial accounting,
Cost
Terms,
Concepts,
and
Classifications
Ch.5 Cost-volume-Profit Analysis
28
Thu.
4
Thu.
Ch. 6 Cost-Volume- Profit Analysis:
Additional Issues
Ch. 7 Incremental Analysis
11
Thu.
Ch. 8 Pricing
18
Thu.
Ch. 9 Budgetary Planning
25
Thu.
Ch. 12 Planning for Capital Investment
2
Thu.
9
Thu.
Second Exam
Ch. 13 Statement of Cash Flows
Ch.16 Financial Statement analysis
16
Thu.
Final Exam