AFX3511

Strategic management accounting

Ms Annette Baines

6 points · 3 hours per week · Caulfield, Peninsula · Prerequisite: To be studied in the final semester of a student's course

Objectives On completion of this subject students should be able to explain the fundamental concepts of strategic corporate planning; appreciate corporate strategy development as a key to business success; visualise the management accounting information system as a corporate control system providing information for strategic decisions; appreciate the major functions of marketing, management and finance in relation to strategic business decisions; understand why management accounting information systems are gaining prominence in the globalised business environment, and what they must produce in order to 'add value' to the role of management.

Synopsis Concepts and techniques of business strategy formulation. Corporate strategic planning; marketing; strategic management accounting; financial issues; strategic management and business planning.

Assessment Participation in tutorials: 10% · Assignment: 20% · Final examination - 3 hours: 70%

Prescribed texts

Smith M Strategic management accounting: Issues and cases 2nd edn, Butterworths, 1997
Ratnatunga and others (eds) Issues in strategic management accounting Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993

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