Acct 102 Sec 64154 Syllabus

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Meet Your Instructor: 

Professor Mark McCallick, CPA.CGMA graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

 Professor McCallick's career began at Ernst & Young, LLP (Newport Beach) where he worked in the audit department for four years. After leaving Ernst & Young, he worked for NBC Television in various financial positions ending as Manager of Advertising Finance – West Coast before leaving to start his own CPA firm in 1987. After ten years running his own practice he merged his practice into a national CPA firm located in Orange County. In 2004 he started a consulting practice and ran this firm until he accepted a full time teaching position at Santa Ana College in 2014.

 Professor McCallick is a Certified Public Accountant and has been teaching financial and managerial accounting, QuickBooks and Entrepreneurial Finance since 2012. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs where he holds a designation as a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He is also a member of the California Society of CPA's and is a certified Quickbooks Pro advisor.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An introductory course in managerial accounting for accounting majors and business administration transfer students. It includes study of cost accounting, financial analysis, and the managerial uses of accounting information.  Standard cost, budgets, activity based costing, absorption costing and capital budgeting

Textbook Information:  

Brewer 7th Edition (See Syllabus for Details)

COURSE MATERIALS: This course requires a textbook (hardcopy or online), AND a McGraw-Hill Connect registration code and subscription. There are TWO options for the textbook for this class:

Option 1: The bundled package from the bookstore – includes the hard cover textbook, eBook, and Connect Plus

• Textbook – Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 7th Edition, Brewer, Garrison, Noreen; with Connect Plus by McGraw Hill Publishing
  ISBN 978-1-260093-39-1
  $99.00 Book plus Connect Plus Access Code (Purchased from the SAC bookstore)

Option 2: eBook with Connect Plus (no hard copy of the textbook)

Textbook - Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 7th Edition, Brewer, Garrison, Noreen; with Connect Plus by McGraw Hill Publishing
ISBN 978-1-260882-60-5
$79.00 (Purchased online directly from MGH website)

FREE TRIAL: Rather than purchase a code right away, you may use the Connect system for a short free trial. You will have to enter your registration code by the end of the third week in order to keep using the system. (Note – the trial period may be changing for this option – check with McGraw-Hill). If you need support from McGraw-Hill – call 800-331-5094.

If you need assistance in purchasing your textbooks – please email me confidentially. I will try to see if there are resources at SAC to assist you.

Student Learning Outcomes of ACCOUNTING 102:

1. Students will be able to demonstrate how to estimate the cost of a product or a service.
2. Students will understand how contribution margin is calculated and how different types of costs behave as production levels change.
3. Students will understand how budgets are used to plan and control an organization.