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AMIS 212:
Introduction to Managerial Accounting Summer 2009 Primary Instructor: Larry Tomassini Office:
458 Fisher Hall Phone: (614)
688-3773 Email: amis212@gmail.com (please
use this address for all correspondence about the
course)
Co-Instructor: Marc Smith Phone:
(614) 292-8753 Email:
amis212@gmail.com (please use
this address for all correspondence about the
course)
Friday Sessions: 9:30
am-11:18 am in SB 105
My Office Hours: F
12:30-2:30 pm; Please email me for an appointment at other times Our T.A.: TBA
Tutorial Hours: TBA Course Materials
We have ordered the access
card bundled with the textbook, and you may buy this at the local campus
bookstores. If you buy a used
textbook somewhere, it will probably not have the Homework Manager access
card. The easiest and cheapest
way to get it separately is to buy it from the publisher's website. Go to http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/webintegration/WebIntegrationServlet?call=RegistrationHomeWeblet&external=1&isbn=0073526975&chrome=%2fsites%2f0073526975%2fchrome.vm&goto_url=/sites/0073526975/information_center_view0/ and follow directions from there to
buy and register the access card.
The price for the basic option is $20. If you are interested in having
an electronic copy of the text, rather than a hardbound text, you can buy the
$65 Homework Manager option instead.
This gives you HM access and access to an electronic version of the
text that you can retrieve from any laptop or desktop computer. A third
option for the text is the eBook from CourseSmart, which is a super product
that has a great search engine (very helpful), the capacity to take notes
electronically, to highlight text for review, etc. Because it has so many features, the price is a bit
more--$93.75 for a 180-day subscription. You can find out more about this, including previewing the
book at http://www.coursesmart.com/0077252578. If you choose the CourseSmart eBook,
you would need to purchase the Homework Manager access card per the
instructions above. Course Objective and
Description This is the
second introductory accounting course that is required for all students in
the Fisher College of Business. Whereas the first course (AMIS 211)
focuses on financial accounting and reporting to external parties, this
course focuses on managerial accounting. As such, it introduces you to
concepts and methods that provide important information managers need to plan
and control business operations and to make various business decisions.
Also, as one of the sophomore-level business core courses, AMIS 212 provides
a foundation for understanding what businesses do and how companies are
managed. This particular
offering of AMIS 212 follows the first primarily online version of the course
that we developed and taught in Summer 2008. I have provided all of the
required assignments for the course through the Carmen website There are no recitation sections in the
course, as there are now in AMIS 211.
We will hold weekly sessions on Fridays at the scheduled time for the
course (9:30-11:18 am) in SB 105.
These sessions are for our midterm exam on July 24 and review/Q&A
sessions (all other Fridays, except July 3 when the University celebrates
July 4--go figure!). We
encourage attendance at the review/Q&A sessions, though it is not
mandatory.
Exams There are two closed-book,
live exams in the course, a midterm on July 24 and a final exam on August 27,
both from 9:30-11:18 AM in SB 105.
The conflict final exam for those who have a final in another course
at that time will be Thursday, August 27 from 7:30-9:18 AM in SB 210. Please check your exam schedule early
in the quarter, and let me know if you will be taking the conflict exam,
rather then the regularly schedule exam. Excused absences from exams are
given only for compelling medical or personal family reasons that must be
adequately documented and provided to me within 5 days after the
absence. Based on the circumstances, I will then determine the
appropriate remedy for the absence. Depending on circumstances, I may
require a make-up exam, or I may double the weight of the next exam. If
I conclude that the absence is unwarranted, the student will have a score of
zero on the missed exam. Homework Assignments
As usual in accounting
courses. Regular homework practice is essential for learning the material
well. As an incentive to practice regularly and well, nine homework
assignments are included in the course, one each week. Your eight best
scores on these will count (in the aggregate) 20% of your final grade.
The homework assignments
are exercises and problems from the course text that are delivered through
the publisher's Homework Manager online system. Our website for the
nine assignments is at http://mh3.brownstone.net/classes/AMIS212/,
You need to
purchase an access card to use this system. Once you have the card,
register it at the website above. Then you are able to retrieve the
assignments, one at a time. You are
allowed one attempt for each assignment with deadlines specified for each (on
Sunday evenings). There are no exceptions to these assignment
deadlines. After the deadline passes,
the system grades each submitted assignment and records a score. As noted
above, the best eight scores for each student are counted in determining the
final course grade. You can then retrieve the feedback that shows you the
correct answers and notes each item that you submitted in error. Learn
from these inexpensive mistakes to avoid more costly errors on exams. Grading Scores on three components
will determine your final grade in the course, using the following weights:
Your weighted total will
translate to final assigned grades as follows:
Course Routine
Because of the online
nature of the course delivery, I have structured the work to facilitate your
study routine. The assignment sheet is constructed as a series of To Do list
items that you can navigate at your own pace, except for the aforementioned
homework deadlines. Each student needs to determine how much time
he/she must spend on each item to learn the material. Everything on
theses assignment lists is fair game for our three exams. Students With
Disabilities If you need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability,
you should contact me to arrange an appointment as soon as possible. At the
appointment we can discuss the course format, anticipate your needs and
explore potential accommodations. We rely on the Office for Disability Services for assistance in
verifying the need for accommodations and developing accommodation
strategies. If you have not previously contacted the Office for Disability
Services, we encourage you to do so. Communication Class announcements and updates
will be made on the course webpage continually throughout the quarter, so
please check the course webpage frequently Please contact us or our TA when
you need help with the class. We are here to help you learn the
material. We hope that you enjoy and
learn from the class! |