Professor Silvers primarily teaches cost and managerial accounting at the University of Utah, and previously at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia and the University of Massachusetts (where he received his PhD). He enjoys the decision-making and resource-allocation aspects of accounting. His experience as a cost accountant in a small manufacturing company and as a business analyst at DuPont bring a useful practical perspective to the classroom. He emphasizes an understanding of product costs, how agents can contract for resources, and how costs can change with fluctuations in the level of product or demand.
His undergraduate course currently includes topics like cost-volume-profit analysis, operating leverage, activity-based costing, full-absorption vs. variable costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, performance measurement, and capital budgeting. His graduate level courses add cases and more statistical rigor to the managerial economics framework.
His undergraduate course currently includes topics like cost-volume-profit analysis, operating leverage, activity-based costing, full-absorption vs. variable costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, performance measurement, and capital budgeting. His graduate level courses add cases and more statistical rigor to the managerial economics framework.