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	Fully Online
2008	Perth City Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2008	Perth City Campus	Trimester 2		Y
2008	Perth City Campus	Study Period 8	Y
2008	Miri Sarawak Campus	Trimester 2	Y

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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