AFF3511 - Strategic management accounting

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