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ACF5955

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Accounting

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Evening)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Evening)

Synopsis

This unit aims to develop students' understanding of the concepts and techniques of management accounting, and skills in the use of management accounting techniques to communicate decision-useful information to management. The unit content includes costing terminology, cost accumulation and recording systems, costing methods for both manufacturing and service-based organisations, how management accounting information informs key product decisions such as pricing and product mix, and the design of budget systems.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. apply management accounting principles and techniques to service and manufacturing industry cases
  2. compare, contrast and demonstrate various costing models
  3. design budgets and explain the behavioural aspects of different budgeting styles
  4. examine cost-volume-profit analyses, divisional performance evaluation measures
  5. develop capabilities to work effectively in a group; and/or demonstrate effective individual research skills to solve management accounting problems and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by ACF5955.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

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 Maleen Gong

Prerequisites

AFX9500 or ACF5950

Prohibitions

AFF9611, AFG9072, ACG5972, AFX5611, AFX9550