Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Unit

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Synopsis

This unit focuses on the provision and use of management accounting information for management planning and control in organisations. Topics include budgeting, standard costing and variance analysis and contemporary approaches to managing costs, time, quality, suppliers, customers, and value.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

1. apply traditional and contemporary performance measurement and control techniques to enable managers to measure and enhance organisational performance
2. analyse and make recommendations regarding the design of performance measurement and control systems
3. explain how behavioural implications are crucial for the effective design of performance measurement and control systems
4. apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with performance measurement and control and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFF3431.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination (3 hours): 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Carly Moulang

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

AFF2391

Prohibitions

AFC3131, AFG3021, AFW3021