Management Accounting for Leaders

• Managers and leaders responsible for a business unit
• Managers and leaders seeking to improve organizational performance
• Individuals influencing the design of accountability systems

• Management Accounting for Leaders Certificate from Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business
• 60 Professional Development Hours (6 CEUs)

Organizations and their leaders have diverse obligations: business, social, and moral obligations to customers, suppliers, employees, investors, regulators, and the public. To live up to these obligations, leaders need systems that cascade responsibility throughout the organization and hold everyone accountable.

In this certificate program, you will discover how to diagnose common accountability problems and lead deliberations to best address them. You will focus on improving several different facets of performance, from improving margins, capacity investment and use, efficiency, coordination, and motivation to the increasingly important obligations that organizations owe to their employees, their communities, and the environment. You’ll have the chance to discuss the new opportunities and challenges that come with the burgeoning “Fourth Industrial Revolution”: engaging employees, assigning obligations to artificially intelligent agents while holding them accountable, and accountability with independent contractors and remote employees. Overall, you will gain understanding through a comprehensive framework that allows you to utilize the power of accountability systems wherever your organization is falling short of their obligations.

To be successful in this program, you will need to be familiar with the basics of financial accounting (applying credits and debits to appropriate accounts) and have fundamental Excel skills (writing simple formulas and creating basic graphs).

The courses in this certificate program are required to be completed in the order that they appear.