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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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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

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