MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Business & Economics Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ACC6450

Managerial accounting

Mr Erwin Waldmann

Objectives On completion of this subject students should have knowledge of the economic environment in which an organisation operates; the methods of accumulating and using financial data and reporting the results of activities and current financial management concepts.

Synopsis Lectures and seminars on the principles of forms of business organisations and financial structures; the overview of the economy; managerial finance; and cost accounting systems.

Assessment Class tests: 30% + Examination (2 hours): 70%

Prescribed texts

• Horngren C T Cost accounting: A managerial emphasis 7th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1987
• Kieso D E and Weygandt J J Intermediate accounting 6th edn, Wiley, 1989
• McConnell C R Economics: Principles, problems and policies 10th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1987
• Weston F J and Brigham E F Essentials of managerial finance 8th edn, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1987