AFC9040

Accounting for planning and control

Professor Rob Chenhall

One 3-hour session per week · Second semester · Clayton

Objectives On completion of this subject students will be able to design and evaluate the effectiveness of management accounting techniques in the areas of strategic and operational planning and control.

Synopsis Topics covered include cost accounting systems, cost-profit-volume analysis, budgeting, divisional performance measurement, transfer pricing, control of discretionary costs, strategic cost management.

Assessment Written (case study): 35% · Examination (3 hours): 65%

Prescribed texts

Langfield-Smith K and others Management accounting McGraw-Hill, 1995

Back to the 1999 Business and Economics Handbook