AFF4014

Business accounting II: strategic issues

Professor Janek Ratnatunga and Mr Brian Clarke

6 points
* One 3-hour lecture per week, or equivalent
* Second semester
* Caulfield
* Prerequisites: Management accounting subject at undergraduate level or equivalent

Objectives On successful completion of this subject, a student should be able to identify the basic conventions and doctrines of managerial and cost accounting and other generally accepted principles which may be strategically applied across the various functions of a business organisation; discuss a number of cost and management accounting issues relating to the design and implementation of strategic, marketing, production, quality and other management models in modern firms; identify major contemporary issues that have emerged in business accounting

Synopsis This subject provides an advanced study of the interface between modern managerial accounting and the business functions of strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing and human resource management. The case study approach will be used to link these areas in an inter-related manner.

Assessment Assignment: 20%
* Class presentations: 10%
* Examination, open-book (3 hours): 70%

Prescribed texts

Ratnatunga J and others Issues in strategic management accounting Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993