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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

303232 (v.5) Farm Management Practices 101

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Tutition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Agribusiness and Wine Science
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 303298 (v.4) Farm Management 102 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to management theory and the management cycle as applicable to farm practices. Topics include: internal farm environment and systems. The nature and use of farm management, budgeting, accounting and farming practices and techniques. Stock reconciliations, cropping, stocking and rotations. Inventories, capital items, depreciation, loans, interest. Gross margin and profit calculation, income and expenditure, cash flow, assets, liabilities, equity. Development, year in year out , partial and parametric budgets. Cash control and recording systems. Basic linear programming.
Field of Education: 050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*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
2011 Northam Campus Semester 1 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