MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Business & Economics Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


ACC4020

Advanced management accounting

Professor Janek Ratnatunga

6 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Caulfield, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, in-house (not offered in all locations in all semesters)

Objectives On completion of this subject students should develop skills of analysis, evaluation and synthesis in cost and management accounting and, in the process, create an awareness of current developments and issue in the area.

Synopsis Complex modern industrial organisations within which the various facets of decision-making and controlling operations take place; the subject discussion of costing systems and activity based costing, activity management, non-financial indicators, contingency theory and agency theory in management accounting and behavioural aspects of accounting.

Assessment Class presentation: 10% + Assignment: 20% + Examination (3 hours): 70%

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