MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Business & Economics Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
GBU8017
Accounting for management information
Ms Suzanne Harrold
6 points + Distance: approximately 12 hours per week + First, second
semester + Gippsland + Prerequisite: GBU8014
Objectives Building from studies in previous accounting subjects,
students will consider the issues and techniques in determining the costs of
products and services. Traditional cost accounting techniques will be explored
and students will also be exposed to the contemporary techniques that have been
facilitated through advances in information technology. Students will expand
skills in the use of spreadsheets and general ledger accounting software
packages.
Assessment Assignment and project: 30% + Examination: 70%
Prescribed texts
- Horngren C T and others Cost accounting 8th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1994
- Horngren C T and others Cost accounting: Student solution manual 8th
edn, Prentice-Hall, 1994
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