Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/

Seminar In Positive Research In Accounting

An organized forum in which students present, evaluate and critique current accounting research. Research is presented by PhD students, department faculty and visiting scholars. ...
 

An organized forum in which students present, evaluate and criticize current accounting research. Research is presented by PhD students, department faculty and visiting scholars. ...
 

This course focuses on accounting, operational, utilization and financial systems as they apply to the financial management of healthcare entities with current information technology. Topics include financial statements of different types of healthcare entities, financial viability, medical technology, hospital closures, physician performance, patient treatment profiles, short-term financing, m......
 

This course emphasizes the importance of tax planning when specifying a firm’s organizational form and structuring individual transactions. The course contains an in-depth evaluation of various basic income tax concepts underlying selected substantive tax rules. Among the topics examined in various operating and transactional situations are the following: determination of tax basis, the an......
 

This course explores the use of accounting information and internal control in ensuring efficient and effective operations, reducing the cost of capital, production and distribution, and complying with legal, regulatory and corporate oversight requirements. Topics include risk assessment and mitigation for operations, financing, derivatives and financial reporting. Implications of management
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This program helps students integrate concepts from their core courses and gain valuable consulting and field experience by tackling actual business problems and opportunities facing corporations and nonprofit firms in Chicago. In addition to attending weekly classes, students work directly with corporate and nonprofit institutions to understand, analyze and solve their problems in areas such a......
 

This course covers a series of advanced accounting topics important to understanding present-day financial reporting: accounting for business combinations, hedging and derivative securities, and pensions and post-employment benefits. The material on business combinations constitutes more than half of the course and includes joint ventures and special purpose entities. Much of this course’s......
 

This course is a continuation of the focus in ACCT-451. Coverage spans many "hot" topics such as including compensation, accounting for employee stock options, international reporting differences, financial reporting for foreign operations, merger accounting, income taxes, pensions and other post-retirement benefits. The course is aimed at those seeking careers in corporate finance, f......
 

This course provides a study of current practices in corporate financial reporting and fundamental issues relating to asset valuation and income determination. The emphasis is on financial statement analysis and interpretation of existing financial disclosures. The course stresses critical analyses of financial reporting numbers as a basis for improved risk assessment and cash flow forecasting.......
 

Many companies are able to identify potential merger partners where combinations can result in significant synergies or value creation. But less than half are able to execute the merger to claim the value created. This course provides the technical knowledge necessary to identify targets as well as prepare business and law practitioners for their future collaborations in the mergers and acquisi......
 

This course analyzes how managerial accounting information can be used to improve firms’ operations and marketing efforts. Topics include advanced applications of activity-based costing and activity-based management; cost of quality; management incentives and control; customer profitability and customer loyalty analysis; cost management in the U.S. and Japan; capacity; peak-load pricing an......
 

This course covers fund accounting, budgeting techniques and the specific financial reporting requirements of governmental and nonprofit organizations. The approach emphasizes quantifying the outputs, outcome and performance of nonprofit organizations. Topics include latest FASB-GASB rules and issues affecting the governance of public organizations. ...
 

For MMM students. This comprehensive, fast-paced introduction to financial and management accounting devotes 25 percent to financial accounting, including cash flows and financial statement analysis, and 75 percent to managerial accounting issues such as cost management performance measures and activity-based manufacturing. See ACCT-430 and ACCT-431 for more details. ...
 

This course examines accounting concepts as they apply to planning and management control of healthcare institutions with current information technology in a connected world. Topics covered include cost accounting, hospital information systems, activity-based costing, clinical information systems, responsibility accounting, management control, product costing, financial reports, cost benefit an......
 

This course emphasizes the use of accounting data in internal management planning and control. It is concerned with accounting techniques that affect decisions about resource allocation and performance evaluation within a firm. The course covers the basic vocabulary and mechanics of cost accounting as well as the economic basis for managerial accounting techniques and the problems that should b......
 

This course acquaints students with the process used to construct and understand the financial reports of organizations. The objective is to understand the decisions that must be made in the financial reporting process and to develop the ability to evaluate and use accounting data. Emphasis is placed on understanding the breadth of accounting measurement practices and on being able to make the ......
 

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