units

ACF2391

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 26 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Business and Economics
Organisational UnitDepartment of Accounting
OfferedCaulfield First semester 2015 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2015 (Day)
City (Melbourne) TRI-C-29 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Ms Susan O'Leary

Synopsis

This is the introductory management accounting unit that focuses on the types of cost information that can be produced to assist managers and other employees within organisations in planning and control, and in decision making. The topics include the following: costs and cost behaviour, product costing (including activity-based costing), cost allocation techniques, cost-volume-profit analysis, and the use of cost information for management decisions.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. apply critical inquiry, problem solving and teamwork skills to individual and group tasks dealing with cost information for decision making
  2. analyse the behaviour of costs and classify them dependent on the context and purpose of related decisions
  3. design and use conventional job costing, process costing and operation costing systems to calculate product costs dependent on the business context
  4. design and use contemporary (activity-based) costing systems to calculate product costs
  5. analyse and use costs relevant to tactical decision making and cost volume profit analysis
  6. apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with cost information for decision making and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by ACF2391.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Ms Susan O'Leary

Prerequisites

AFF1121 or ACF1121

Prohibitions

ACB2020, AFC2130, AFC2131, ACC2131, AFG2020, ACG2020, AFW2020, ACW2020, AFF2391, AFX2391