ACCT5280 ACCOUNTING AND BUS STRATEGY

This course links accounting theory, procedures, and practices to strategic decision making by managers. Financial pronouncements and their applications, investment decision making (both short and long term), and financial structure decisions, i.e., debt and equity financing, will constitute an integral part of this course. The course seeks to determine the impact that accounting pronouncements have had on business strategies, and also to what extent business has shaped financial standards and financial reporting.