Executive Education
Executive Certificate in Financial and Cost Accounting
Elevate your accounting career today!
Cost accounting is used to effectively control operations, particularly when senior management is tracking every dollar! Florida Atlantic University’s Certificate in Financial and Cost Accounting provides participants with all the tools and information to put the best practices of cost accounting to work and educates the non-accountant with the foundations of accounting theory, cost accounting, and best practices.
Taught by instructors whose core competency is finance, their focused approach and industry knowledge has kept the program content and curriculum on the cutting-edge of the “best practices” within the discipline of finance and accounting.
By taking this course, you will gain a working knowledge of the language of accounting and its application, and work more effectively with other accounting professionals toward mutual business objectives!
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Course Benefits
Particularly during challenging economic times, financial acumen is expected at every organizational level and even non-finance professionals are expected to understand and contribute to a company’s financial policy.
Participants who enroll in Florida Atlantic University’s Certificate in Financial and Cost Accounting will learn the language of accounting and how to apply it to identify profitability for an organization. In addition, both finance and non-finance professionals will become proficient in evaluating results against budgets with greater accuracy and how to effectively apply cost accounting methods to maximize the use of people, resources and materials.
Program Outline
- Understanding the Language of Accounting
- Financial Statements
- The Recording Process
- The Statement of Cash Flows
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Management Cost Accounting & Break Even Analysis
Participants who take this course will:
- Learn the basics of accounting and how transactions are reported and recorded
- Learn about Accounting Systems and Financial Reports
- Gain a better understanding of the role of accounting in the creation of financial statements
- Gain a better understanding of variable cost, fixed costs and unit costs
- Gain a better understanding of the impact of depreciation on the firm
- Learn how to read and better understand financial statements, cash flow statements
- Explain how accounting information assists in making decisions
- Analyze business transactions and relate them to changes in the balance sheet
- Explain how accountants measure income
- Individuals who want to learn how to interpret and use accounting instruments and data in daily decision-making
- Non-finance, non-accounting professionals who want to increase their knowledge of accounting language, communicate with other finance and accounting professionals, and understand the practical aspects of accounting principles