Morning Session: Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Companies must decide between traditional product costing or activity-based costing approaches when implementing firm costing systems. During this session, participants will rely upon case studies to solidify their understanding of the pros and cons of both costing approaches, as well as when each approach is most appropriate.
Afternoon Session: Strategy and Performance Measurement through the Balanced Scorecard
Successful firms are able to link strategy, implementation, and controls through macro and micro performance measures. During this session, our guest speaker will use case studies to present one of the most popular performance frameworks: Balanced Scorecards. Participants will learn how Balanced Scorecards integrate multiple performance measures so that key decision makers have the information they need to develop or revise strategic plans or implementation processes. Participants will also learn how to develop and implement scorecards for clients and their own firms.
| When: |
Saturday, November 16th, 2019. 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST |
| Where: |
PSU @611 or Your home or office |
| Speaker: |
Joseph Ugras, Ph.D. |
| CPE Credits: |
8 Accounting CPE |
| CLE Credits: |
7 Substantive CLE / 6 Substantive CLE (PA)* |
| Program Level: |
Basic |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Advanced Preparation: |
None |
| Delivery Method: |
Group Live and Group Internet-Based |
The Presenters:
Dr. Joseph Ugras is the Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Ugras also teaches Accounting for Managerial Decision Making at the Graduate Level. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from Temple University, an M.B.A. in Accounting and Taxation from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). His areas of expertise include managerial accounting, activity-based costing/management, strategic cost management, measurement of financial performance, and ethical issues in business. Dr. Ugras has consulted with an international pharmaceutical company, Subaru America, UNISYS, Binney and Smith and Carpenter Tech. He has made presentations at the American Accounting Association National and Regional Conferences, European Management Accounting Conference, Annual Management Accounting Research Symposia and Philadelphia Controllers Conference. He has also served as the President of the American Accounting Association — Mid-Atlantic Region, as well as a variety of positions with the Institute of Management Accountants. Dr. Ugras’ research has been published in Advances in Management Accounting, Accounting Enquiries, Southern Business and Economic Journal, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Management Systems.
About CPE/CLE:
* The ALA partners with McDevitt and Kline LLC for certificate issuance. Live, internet-based courses are approved as Distance Learning courses by the PA Supreme Court CLE Board. For additional information, please visit http://www.pacle.org/. Check with your State CLE Board for rules pertaining to live webcasts. These rules differ from state to state. For example, PA attorneys may earn up to 6 CLE credits per compliance period via live webcasts (or 6 out of 12 credits per year); NJ and DE attorneys may earn up to 12 CLE credits per compliance period via live webcasts (or 12 out of 24 credits per two years).
McDevitt & Kline, LLC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site:www.nasba.org.
