UVA Darden Launches Online Course in Managerial Accounting
By Leslie Cook
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is launching a new massive open online course (MOOC), “Managerial Accounting Fundamentals,” taught by Darden Professor Luann Lynch.
The course is available to anyone on the Coursera platform.
The four-week course teaches the fundamental concepts and tools needed for financial planning and decision-making. Topics include cost behavior, cost allocation systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, and a framework for relevant costs and benefits. By the end of this course, participants will be able to explain financial implications and recommend reasonable courses of action for a number of financial scenarios.
Lynch, whose research interests include the design and impact of incentive and compensation systems, teaches the First Year accounting course to Darden MBA students and an elective in management accounting to Second Year students. She is frequently lauded for her outstanding teaching, received the UVA Alumni Board of Trustees teaching award and was recognized as an outstanding professor in BusinessWeek’s guide to the best business schools, among other honors.
She has also taught the popular “Financial Accounting Fundamentals” MOOC on the Coursera platform.
Darden continues to innovate in the online learning space, creating materials to support its MOOCs, degree programs and custom programs for leading organizations. Through its partnership with Coursera, Darden has developed a number of popular MOOCs, reaching more than 1.1 million learners via courses in areas such as design thinking, entrepreneurship, project management and strategy, among others.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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