Courses Handbook 2009

5906 (v.5) Strategic Cost Management 660


Area: Graduate School of Business
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit focuses on management's use of internal accounting information in enabling the effective guidance and control of their organisations through improved decision-making in a changing business environment. In acquainting students with the role of managerial accounting in an organisation, this unit will also cover the role of cost information in planning, decision-making, control and performance evaluation, as well as its role in enhancing business competitiveness. The behavioural implications of cost management systems will also be explored.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 080100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Perth City Campus Trimester 1 Y        
2009 Perth City Campus Trimester 2 Y        
2009 Perth City Campus Trimester 2         Y
2009 Perth City Campus Trimester 3         Y
2009 Miri Sarawak Campus Trimester 1 Y        
2009 Miri Sarawak Campus Trimester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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