Julian Yeo: First half of the course. See the course outline below or the links
above.
Dan Gode: Second half of the
course. See the course outline below or the links above.
MBA ACCT-GB-3303 Specializations:
Accounting
This course equips you with the tools to identify profitable
opportunities, design effective financial incentives, and implement
sound business plans. It is organized around four core themes: cost
analysis, investment evaluation, incentives, and interdependencies.
Cost analysis focuses on indirect cost allocation, non-linear costs,
activity-based costing, and value-chain analysis. Investment evaluation
examines value metrics, ROI, KPIs, and real options. The incentives
module explores pay-for-performance design and budgeting variances.
Finally, interdependencies address joint costs, bundled products, and
transfer pricing.
Help and Office
Professor Julian Yeo:
jyeo@stern.nyu.edu,
212-998-0005, Office: KMC 10-81.
You need to bring a computer to every class. If you have any
technical questions, please contact the IT department (212-998-0180),
NOT me.
We use Excel 365. You can get it for free from Microsoft because you are
a student. Given the limited class time, we will not show how to
replicate Excel Windows on Excel Mac.
Administrative Issues
You must be in the following systems before starting the first class:
Albert
NYU Brightspace
If you are blocked from accessing these systems, please ask the
administration to expedite matters. Given the complexity of these
systems, we cannot manually add you to any system.
Only registered students can attend. We cannot override this NYU rule.
Materials
We use our own materials. Therefore, no textbook is required, and you
need not purchase anything. All materials will be linked via
Brightspace.
Attendance and penalty for missing classes
Requiring attendance is necessary for several reasons. First, you
incorrectly assume you can catch up on a missed class by watching a
recording (if available). Videos do not engage your brain as much as a
live class. Second, less than 20% of you watch the recording (if
available). You are then lost in class, which provides the wrong signals
to me as an instructor. Third, your absence hurts class discussions.
Fourth, you miss out on feedback if you do not work through the questions
we pose in class. Fifth, we lose the feedback since there are fewer
questions.
The policy below will be in effect only after the add/drop
period.
Without mandatory attendance, attendance is often below 50%. Therefore,
though we dislike doing this, we penalize absences. If you anticipate
being absent for good reasons, please email me well in advance. Please
enter "Excused" on the attendance sheet described below to avoid
the penalty if approved. If you miss a class due to emergencies and cannot
tell me in advance, do not panic. Take care of the emergency first, and
then email me. We will permit you to change the "Absent" to
"Excused." But if you miss a class without a valid reason, there
is a penalty, as stated below.
For sections meeting in 150-190 minute sessions, you will lose one
grade (A to A-, A- to B+, B+ to B, B to B-, and so on) for EVERY missed
session unless you were explicitly excused via email. Thus, if you miss
two class sessions, you will lose two grades, and so on.
For sections meeting in 75-80 minute sessions, you will lose one grade
(A to A-, A- to B+, B+ to B, B to B-, and so on) for EVERY TWO missed
sessions unless you were explicitly excused via email. Thus, if you miss
four class sessions, you will lose two grades, and so on.
Please sit in the same seat in every class and display your name tags. For
Zoom classes, you must keep your video on AT ALL TIMES. You must also have
a good working headset or mic, as it is extremely rude to be inaudible and
force me to ask you to repeat yourself. After entering the class, please
mark yourself present on the OneDrive sheet within the first 20 minutes
(link posted on Brightspace).
You will be marked absent if you are more than 20 minutes late, unless
it is due to factors beyond your control (traffic, subway delays, or
interviews running late). You will also be marked absent if you leave
the class early unless you have my permission or get it afterward. You
will get an F in the course if you are caught cheating on the attendance
sheet.
Exams and Grading
If you have a qualified disability and require academic accommodation
during this course, please contact me directly. We will arrange a
separate room/time for you.
Please read about the penalty for missing classes above.
Julian Yeo Online Mini Tests: 20%
Julian Yeo Mid-Term Exam: 30%
Dan Gode Almaris assignments described above: 25%
Dan Gode Project: 25%
Dan Gode's Almaris Assignments
Review your core concepts carefully.
The assignments appear as tests on Almaris. We may update the deadlines
as the course progresses.
Some assignments are short; others are long. Please manage your time.
NO EXTENSIONS will be granted for any reason except medical or family
emergencies. If you have religious or personal conflicts, please submit
the assignments early. The related materials are covered well in advance
of the assignments. Please do not email me to request extensions unless
you have a medical or family emergency.
You can collaborate with others while doing assignments.
All assignments are mandatory. After the first day of class, you can
view the online assignments at
http://www.almaris.com/assess/
using your official Stern email (no aliases) and the most recent
password emailed to you by Almaris. The Almaris password is different
from the Stern password.
To retrieve the password, use your full email with the domain name as
it appears in Brightspace. The domain name could be @nyu.edu for some
of you, while it could be @stern.nyu.edu for others. We do not control
this mess.
Assignments are marked “late” if you do not meet or exceed
the passing score described below before the deadline. There is no
additional penalty for lateness other than a low score.
Assignments have a “passing score” of 100% or less.
We set the passing score at 100% if we want you to ace the
assignment. In reality, there is no passing grade. Whatever you get
on your last attempt is your final score. You are graded on accuracy
but not the number of attempts. There is a difference between
“passing” and getting full credit. If you get 70/100 on
your final attempt, you “pass,” but you do not score
100.
We set the passing score to less than 100% on a few assignments if
we do not require you to ace the assignment. Any score above that
score is rounded up to 100%. For example, if the passing score is
90%, and you get 93%, your score is rounded up to 100%. in a
separate spreadsheet. You will see only the raw score online.
Almaris is not affiliated with Stern in any way. It is offering these
tests to Stern at no charge.
Almaris staff is not authorized to extend deadlines under any
circumstances. Only my TAs can do that. Almaris staff will reply to your
emails only if they pertain to technical issues with the Almaris system.
Please contact Stern IT for technical issues with your network.