Identify and analyze, at least five topics covered during the course that you may apply to your personal life, your professional job, or a business enterprise. Consider yourself as a business entity for which you, as a CEO/Owner strive to maximize your productivity and profitability. You need to provide at least three academic and two business references. Your answer to this question may not exceed 10 double space pages, excluding cover page, and references. There is no minimum number of pages since the focus is on quality rather than quantity. Use AP style and format.

Topics Covered

1)The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment

2)Basic Cost Management Concepts

3)Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment

4)Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing

5)Activity-Based Costing and Management

6)Activity Analysis, Cost Behavior, and Cost Estimation

7)Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

8)Variable Costing and the Costs of Quality and Sustainability

9)Financial Planning and Analysis: The Master Budget

10)Standard Costing and Analysis of Direct Costs

11)Flexible Budgeting and Analysis of Overhead

12)Responsibility Accounting, Operational Performance Measures, and the Balanced Scorecard