Area: | School of Accounting |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
Seminar: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 302129 (v.2) Accounting (Financial) 510 or any previous version
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Syllabus: | Essentials of a system for planning and control. Operational control, cost classification for management purposes. Patterns of cost behaviour, budgeting for planning and control, responsibility accounting and performance reporting, short term decision-making including cost volume profit relationships, revenue and pricing decisions, production decisions. Long term decision-making including capital investment appraisal, decentralised organisations' transfer pricing and performance measurement, use of spreadsheet software to develop financial models. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit, students will have - An ability to prepare and analyse accounting data. Converted data to a usable form for decision making, and apply it in a wide range of planning, control and decision-making alternatives. Understood and applied contemporary practice in managerial accounting. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
Unit Texts: | Hilton, R.W. (2002), Managerial Accounting. 5th ed. International Version, McGraw Hill. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Final Examination 60%. Mid-Semester Test 40%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 80100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Supplemental | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | Y | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | Y | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Summer Period | Y | | | | 2004 | Dongbei Uni Econs Fin China | Trimester 1A | Y | | | | 2004 | Dongbei Uni Econs Fin China | Trimester 2A | Y | | | | 2004 | Dongbei Uni Econs Fin China | Trimester 3A | Y | | | | 2004 | Mktg Inst of S'pore | Trimester 1A | Y | | | | 2004 | Open University HK | Trimester 2A | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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