units

ACF5100

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 23 December 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Business and Economics
Organisational UnitDepartment of Accounting
OfferedCaulfield First semester 2014 (Evening)
Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

An advanced study of the interface between modern managerial accounting and the business functions of strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing and human resource management. Topics covered include concepts and issues in strategy, quality, ethics, advertising and promotion, pricing, distribution and productivity.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. describe the conventions and doctrines of management accounting that may be strategically applied to an entity
  2. evaluate emerging issues in strategic management accounting
  3. critically evaluate the influence of strategy, marketing and shareholder value on management accounting and the role of management accounting in designing and implementing management control and performance measurement systems to support business strategy, marketing decisions and shareholder value
  4. assess control management systems with due consideration to ethical, cultural and personnel issues
  5. apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with advanced strategic management accounting and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by ACF5100.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 45%
Examination: 55%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Ralph Kober

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester.

Prohibitions

AFF5100, ACC5100