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AFF3511 - Strategic management accounting

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Business and Economics

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Concepts and techniques of business strategy formulation, and how management accounting information systems act as a corporate control system providing information for strategic decisions.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  • explain how management accounting systems can be designed to support corporate, business and operational strategies
  • critically evaluate strategic management accounting concepts, techniques, assumptions, and arguments
  • apply management accounting techniques to strategic business decisions
  • describe the behavioural implications of performance measurement systems
  • apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with strategic management accounting issues.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

AFF2391

Prohibitions

AFC3141

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