Department of Accounting Information & Management

Fall Quarter 03/04

COURSE #:   430

SECTION:   61 & 63

COURSE NAME:  Accounting for Decision Making

INSTRUCTOR:   Mark Finn

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

In Stickney & Weil read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (up to the section entitled “Accounting Procedures for Preparing the Balance Sheet”)

Prepare the following questions for class discussion:

     Chapter 1:  14 and 28,   Chapter 2:  8, 10, and 13

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED   

AUTHOR:  Stickney & Weil

PUBLISHER:  Dryden/Harcourt Brace

TITLE:  “Financial Accounting:  An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses” and Student Solution Manual

   ISBN   0324174489       

ED./DATE:  10th ed.

 

COURSE #:   430

SECTION:   62 & 64

COURSE NAME:  Accounting for Decision Making

INSTRUCTOR:   Sri Sridharan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

In text read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

Prepare the following Chapter 2 problems for discussion:  8, 12 and 14.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:  Stickney & Weil

PUBLISHER:  Dryden/Harcourt Brace

TITLE:    “Financial Accounting:  An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses” and Student Solution Manual

   ISBN   0324174489       

ED./DATE:  10th ed.

 

COURSE #:   430

SECTION: 65  & 67

COURSE NAME:  Accounting for Decision Making

INSTRUCTOR:   Thomas Fields

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Class 1 Introduction to Financial Statements and Accounting Concepts

Stickney & Weil:  Read Ch. 1 (pp. 3-28)

                           Prepare 1.15 and 1.27

Packet:  Read "Baseball Going Broke? Don't Believe It"

             Skim "Going Concerns"

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:  Stickney & Weil

PUBLISHER: Dryden/Harcourt Brace

TITLE:  “Financial Accounting:  An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses” and Student Solution Manual

   ISBN   0324174489       

ED./DATE:  10th ed.

 

COURSE #:  430

SECTION:   66 & 68

COURSE NAME: Accounting for Decision Making

INSTRUCTOR:   Ronald Dye

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

READ:  Chapter 1

PREPARE:  Problems 14, 19 and 23 from Chapter 1.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED    

AUTHOR:

                 Stickney & Weil

PUBLISHER:

             Dryden/Harcourt Brace

TITLE: “Financial Accounting:  An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses” and Student Solution Manual

   ISBN   0324174489       

ED./DATE:

                          10th ed.

 

COURSE #:  431

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME: Managerial Accounting

INSTRUCTOR:  Beverly Walther

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Browse (and bring to class):  pp. 1 – 10 of the Transparency Masters (in the course packet)

Read:  One Cost System Isn’t Enough, Be Data Literate..., and Wanted:  Management Accounting

            Skills articles

1.  TEXT  --   RECOMMENDED

AUTHORMaher, Stickney, and Weil

PUBLISHER:  South-Western (Thomson)

TITLEManagerial Accounting:  An Introduction to Concepts,

           Methods, and Uses

ED./DATEEighth Edition

 

COURSE #:   439

SECTION:   69

COURSE NAME: MMM Accounting for Manufacturing &

                              Management

INSTRUCTOR:   Bala Balachandran

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  

   READ:  Chapter 21 in CD ROM shrink wrapped w/textbook

   DO:  Problems 21-26 and 21-37 in the Supplement CD ROM

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:  Hilton

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill/Irwin

TITLE:  Managerial Accounting w/CD Rom   

             ISBN:  0-07-248660-0

ED./DATE: 4th Ed & CD Rom

 

COURSE #:   444

SECTION:  81 & 82

COURSE NAME: Mergers & Acquisition

INSTRUCTOR:  Thomas Lys & Peter Barack

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

The first assignment will be posted on the web.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:    NONE

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

 

COURSE #:   451

SECTION:   61

COURSE NAME: Financial Reporting & Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:   Shyam Sunder

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Read:       RCJ Ch 5

Do:           Office Depot - Ratio Analysis (in course packet)

Skim:        RCJ Ch 1

                 Accounting Analysis (in course packet)

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED   

AUTHORRevsine, Colling & Johnson

PUBLISHER:  Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Financial Reporting & Analysis

ED./DATE:  2nd ed

 

COURSE #:   451

SECTION:   62

COURSE NAME: Financial Reporting & Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:   Lawrence Revsine

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

READ:  Revsine, Collins and Johnson (2nd ed., 2002) Chapters 1 and 2

PREPARE IN ADVANCE:  Revsine, Collins & Johnson, C2-1 (Fuentes Corp.)

                                              and packet readings listed on course Syllabus.

NOTE:  Students whose debit and credit mechanics are rusty should review carefully the Chapter 2 appendix since an understanding of Accounting 430 material is presumed in this course.  You should also prepare P2-8.  Doing this problem allows you to assess your mastery of the material.  The solution to all end of chapter exercises and problems (but not cases) is available on the course web-site.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED   

AUTHORRevsine, Colling & Johnson

PUBLISHER:  Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Financial Reporting & Analysis

ED./DATE:  2nd ed.

 

COURSE #:   479

SECTION:    81

COURSE NAME: Financial Assessment and Performance

                             Evaluation of Healthcare Entities

INSTRUCTOR:   Thomas Prince

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   YES    [Distributed in class compliments of instructor.]

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   Entities Providing Health Care Services to Individuals; Macroaccounting Reports of

                                        the Health Care System

READ:    Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

READ:    Study Questions and Responses for Chapters 1 and 2 [send professor an e-mail for a handout of all

               Study questions and Responses],  t-prince@kellogg.northwestern.edu

READ:     Prince, “Corporate Financial Reporting of Future Healthcare Expenditures.”

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:

                  Thomas Prince

PUBLISHER:

     Chicago: American Hospital Publishing, Inc.,

TITLE:  Strategic Management for Health Care Entities:

             Creative Frameworks for Financial and Operational Analysis

ED./DATE:  1998