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    Understand cost accounting principles for managing and controlling costs. Learn to analyze cost behavior and prepare cost reports.

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      IE Business School

      The Basics of Accounting for Assets: Long-Term Assets

      Skills you'll gain: Depreciation, Fixed Asset, Property Accounting, Asset Management, Balance Sheet, Accounting, Financial Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Financial Statements, Intellectual Property

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

      Accounting Analysis II: Accounting for Liabilities and Equity

      Skills you'll gain: Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Tax Management, Cash Flows, Technical Accounting, Balance Sheet, Equities, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Financial Statements, International Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting, Income Statement, Benefits Administration, Compensation Management, Income Tax

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      4.7
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      109 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      University of Virginia

      Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy

      Skills you'll gain: Price Negotiation, Market Dynamics, Product Strategy, Revenue Management, Cost Accounting, Economics, Demand Planning, Cost Benefit Analysis, Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Channel, Customer Analysis, Regression Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Statistical Methods

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      680 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

      Making the Case for Robotic Process Automation

      Skills you'll gain: Robotic Process Automation, Business Process Automation, Return On Investment, Accounting and Finance Software, Business Requirements, Process Mapping, Process Analysis, Business Process, Value Propositions, Process Improvement, Project Scoping, Digital Transformation, Change Management

      4.1
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      93 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Google Cloud

      Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE Virtual Machines

      Skills you'll gain: Scalability, Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud-Native Computing, Cloud Management, Load Balancing, Capacity Management, Network Architecture

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Intuit

      Liabilities and Equity in Accounting

      Skills you'll gain: Payroll, Payroll Administration, Payroll Processing, Payroll Tax, Sales Tax, Balance Sheet, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Financial Accounting, General Accounting, Equities, Bookkeeping, General Ledger, Mortgage Loans, Loans, Tax Compliance

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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      758 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Google Cloud

      Performance and Cost Optimization with BigQuery

      Skills you'll gain: Performance Tuning, Database Management, Dashboard, Data Management, Cloud Storage, Data Storage

      Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Coursera Instructor Network

      Azure CloudOps: Automating Infrastructure & Cost Control

      Skills you'll gain: Cloud Management, Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Computing, CI/CD, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Continuous Integration, Virtual Machines, Automation, User Provisioning, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Process Optimization, System Monitoring, Compliance Training, Git (Version Control System)

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Whizlabs

      AWS: Security and Cost Optimization strategies

      Skills you'll gain: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Security, Cloud Management, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Data Security, Public Cloud, Infrastructure Security

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Google Cloud

      Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage

      Skills you'll gain: Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Cloud Management, Cloud API, File Management, Data Storage Technologies

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Google Cloud

      Setting Up Cost Control with Quota

      Skills you'll gain: Query Languages, Data Access, Database Management, Data Manipulation, Cloud API, Google Cloud Platform, Data Analysis

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Accounting Foundations Graduate Certificate

      Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Management Accounting, Fund Accounting, Operations Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Statement Analysis, Marketing, Risk Management, Machine Learning Algorithms, Business Strategy, Revenue Recognition, Financial Auditing, Descriptive Statistics, Process Improvement, Variance Analysis, Generative AI, Financial Market, Strategic Decision-Making, Corporate Tax, Global Marketing

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      Graduate Certificate · 6 - 12 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular cost accounting courses

    • The Basics of Accounting for Assets: Long-Term Assets: IE Business School
    • Accounting Analysis II: Accounting for Liabilities and Equity: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy: University of Virginia
    • Making the Case for Robotic Process Automation: Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
    • Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE Virtual Machines: Google Cloud
    • Liabilities and Equity in Accounting: Intuit
    • Performance and Cost Optimization with BigQuery: Google Cloud
    • Azure CloudOps: Automating Infrastructure & Cost Control: Coursera Instructor Network
    • AWS: Security and Cost Optimization strategies: Whizlabs
    • Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage: Google Cloud

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