COMPUTER APPLICATION AND COST ACCOUNTING

Abstract

Contemporary cost (or managerial) accounting courses cover a wide range of subjects taken from different disciplines in business administration. It includes PERT, linear programming, simple regression, and capital rationing.

More sophisticated decision making techniques such as PERT/COST, multiple regression, and goal programming are treated (or at least mentioned) in graduate seminar courses.

While these topics are also treated in operations research and/or statistics courses, students are usually given limited exposure to empirical applications with the emphasis placed upon computational methods and theory. This deficiency is more true for cost accounting courses. Practical applications of decision making models are greatly needed to fill the gap between theory and practice.