Accounting for management information
Ms Suzanne Harrold
6 points * Distance approximately 12 hours per week * First, Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisite: GBU8014
Objectives Building from studies in previous accounting subjects, students will consider the issues and techniques in determining the costs of products and services. Traditional cost accounting techniques will be explored and students will also be exposed to the contemporary techniques that have been facilitated through advances in information technology. Students will expand skills in the use of spreadsheets and general ledger accounting software packages.
Assessment Assignment and project: 30% * Examination: 70%
Prescribed texts
Horngren C T and others Cost accounting 8th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1994
Horngren CT and others Cost accounting: Student solution manual 8th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1994