Spring 2027

Introductory Managerial Accounting

Introductory Managerial Accounting covers concepts for decision-making and uses accounting information for planning, decision-making, and controlling business operations across various management environments.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Brett Killion3.8/5Katharine Widlak3.3/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Brett Killion

Weekly assignments and quizzes were required, with a final exam that closely followed the extensive provided materials.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe how managerial accounting principles and tools are critical to the successful design and implementation of an organizational strategy.

  • Explain how business decisions can affect the design of performance measurement systems and achievement of the organization’s objectives.

  • Apply cost and revenue-related concepts to planning, performance evaluation, and decision-making (e.g., product mix, outsourcing, pricing, incentive schemes, and budgeting).

  • Recognize ethical issues in business, particularly as applied to the design of performance measurement and incentive schemes within the scope of management accounting.

  • Recognize how to successfully apply management accounting tools and concepts to various business disciplines and the increasingly complex business environment.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ACCT I S 100, (ACCT I S 300 and declared in the Certificate in Accounting Fundamentals), or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

    • ACCTIS 100
      • ACCTIS 300
      • declared in the Certificate in Accounting Fundamentals
      take all
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
    take one
ACCTIS 211 used by

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  • Any of
    • ACCTIS 100
    • All of
      • ACCTIS 300
      • declared in the Certificate in Accounting Fundamentals
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

Professors

Spring 2027
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About this rating

Raw average: 4.40/5 from 5 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 5.0/5 raw quality · 1.0/5 difficulty · 1 reviews

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Past student reviews · Brett Killion

Brett Killion taught this online managerial accounting course with weekly prerecorded lectures, assignments, and quizzes. Students found the class chill and noted that only the final exam was proctored, which aligned with the provided materials.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.15 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 60.6% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).

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About this rating

Raw average: 1.00/5 from 3 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.20 GPA, 47.0% A/AB (n=296 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.20 GPA, 44.4% A/AB (n=405 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 45.7% A/AB (n=341 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BRETT KILLION is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KATHARINE WIDLAK is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 008Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 010Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 007Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 009Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 100Online Only0 / 500
LEC 006Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Brett Killion

A chill online summer course in managerial accounting that features weekly prerecorded lectures, assignments, and quizzes.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.20 GPA, 48.5% A/AB (n=332 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.20 GPA, 44.4% A/AB (n=405 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 47.1% A/AB (n=374 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Brett Killion

Weekly assignments and quizzes were required, with a final exam that closely followed the extensive provided materials.

Past student reviews · Brett Killion

Students found the course easy-going, noting that only the final exam was proctored and that it aligned well with the study materials.

Topics

  • Managerial accounting concepts relevant for decision-making.
  • Use of accounting information for planning, decision-making, and control of business operations.
  • Cost and revenue-related concepts including product mix, outsourcing, pricing, incentive schemes, and budgeting.
  • Design of performance measurement systems and achievement of organizational objectives.
  • Ethical issues in business related to performance measurement and incentive schemes.

Skills

  • Using managerial accounting principles and tools for organizational strategy design and implementation.
  • Explaining how business decisions affect performance measurement system design and objective achievement.
  • Applying cost and revenue concepts to planning, performance evaluation, and decision-making.
  • Recognizing ethical issues in performance measurement and incentive scheme design.
  • Applying management accounting tools across various business disciplines and complex environments.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ACCTIS 211 · Spring 2027

Introductory Managerial Accounting

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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