COURSE DESCRIPTION
What comes to your mind when you think of Accounting? Is it numbers, boring, hard or lower
GPA? How about power, knowledge, literacy and future instead? The aim of this course is to
make you fluent in the language of business so that you can make better decisions using numbers
in any possible situation.
It is important for all students of business to understand how companies make profits and how
they can strive towards higher profits. This course will provide an understanding of the costs and
profits of the business. It will examine how the accounting information can aid in formulating
business strategies, budgets, resource allocation decisions, cost -planning and performance
measurement.
COURSE MATERIALS
Required Material for class:
1. Textbook:
Cost Accounting, 15/E by Horngren/Datar/Rajan
Please select one: (For Detailed help, please read below)
(a) NON-MAJORS Package ISBN: 1269768190 [CUSTOM]
(ISBN above contains 15th Horngren’s Cost Accounting edition of custom textbook0
PLUS MyAccountingLab access code)
(b) MAJORS Package ISBN: 9780133803815
(ISBN above contains 15th Horngren’s Cost Accounting edition of bound textbook PLUS
MyAccountingLab access code)– [no longer custom]
-ISBN for the Looseleaf textbook PLUS MyAccountingLab package: 9780133781106
– ISBN for the access card only: 9780133451474
Course ID: sahay92925 (Needed to register for My Accounting Lab)
There are two version of our textbook listed in the Rutgers University Bookstore’s website.
Please read carefully and decide which is the least expensive option for you:
The first (custom) version of our textbook covers only chapters 1 through 11. This is the book
you need if you are NOT an Accounting Major. This is the thinner, soft bound book.
Accounting
COURSE NUMBER: 33:010:275
COURSE TITLE: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
The second version of this book includes all 23 Chapters of this textbook. It costs more than
twice as much as the shorter version. This is the book you need if you are an Accounting Major.
This is the fatter, hard bound book.
During our class we will cover the first 11 chapters of this book. Students in our class who are
accounting majors will cover the remaining chapters of this textbook (chapters 12 to 23) in a
subsequent accounting course, Cost Accounting 33:010:451, which requires our Introduction to
Managerial Accounting course 33:010:275 as a prerequisite.
Both versions of this textbook when purchased directly from the bookstore come with access to
an online homework system (www.myaccountinglab) that everyone must use when completing
homework.
The more expensive version of this textbook provides access to “my accounting lab” for a 12–
month period, whereas the less expensive version (custom version of the textbook) provides this
online access for six months.
The 12 month period is meant for those students who are accounting majors provided that they
take Cost Accounting 33:010:451 during the Spring semester (I strongly recommend to take the
sequel course ASAP since the material is quite repetitive).
Those who find it convenient to buy the looseleaf form so that you do not have to carry the whole
book around may use the ISBN for the looseleaf version listed above.
My accounting lab software can also be purchased alone from the publisher. You can use the
“access card only” info to do that. Doing so offers the advantage of an online version of the
book.
While it may be tempting to try to use the textbook solely online, those who have tried to so in
the past have often found it frustrating particularly when doing problems in class. I encourage
everyone to acquire a hard copy of the book whether new or used.
Please note that there are no used books available in 15th edition, since the new edition came out
only a month ago. However, if an older edition is used, my accounting lab software will still need
to be acquired for an additional cost since everyone must submit weekly homework using my
accounting lab. Another issue to keep in mind while considering an older edition is that it may not
have the same problems at the end of chapters, which is crucial to your solving problems in class.
Class members should be careful to ensure that your book comes with My Accounting lab
regardless of where it is purchased. Sometimes a textbook advertised as being new and
supposedly packaged together with the software has been delivered to purchasers without the
required my accounting lab software or one with an expired duration.
2. Turning Technologies Clicker: Available in Bookstore or online:
Please read carefully before you buy the book:
Finally, if you do not have a clicker from a previous course, you will need to buy one from the
bookstore Or You can purchase one online:
1. Go to Turning Technologies Online store:
https://store.turningtechnologies.com/
2. Enter School Code: RUT2
3. Follow the on screen instructions
Course Websites:
Following sites will be your friends thru the semester:
1. Course announcements, materials, homework solutions and other information will be posted on
the course website at:
http://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu.
Use your Rutgers NETID and Password to login.
2. All recorded lectures are available at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLauepKFT6DK_yHwd-H30v5jK4L2QaD_c9
3. To make appointments for recitation sections and tutoring, please go to:
https://booknow.appointment-plus.com/6yvt8vlv/
4. To make appointment with me, please use the following address:
5. To do homework and online quizzes, please go to:
pearsonmylabandmastering.com
GRADING
The final grade is determined as follows: