Introduces the concepts, methods, and procedures for the development and use of accounting information to support and assist management in their internal cost accounting processes and financial decision making. Areas examined are: cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure, product costing in a manufacturing environment (including activity based costing), cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, standard costing, differential analysis, capital budgeting, variable and absorption costing, and responsibility accounting. (C-ID ACCT 120) (CSU/UC)