Accounting Information and Managerial Decision Making

ACC60002 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn

Duration

  • One Semester or equivalent

Contact hours

  • 36

2020 teaching periods

Hawthorn

HB7  HE Block 7 Higher Ed. Semester 1

Dates:
12 Oct 20 - 22 Nov 20

Results:
22 Dec 20

Last self enrolment:
12 Oct 20

Census:
23 Oct 20

Last withdraw without fail:
6 Nov 20

Dates:
2 Mar 20 - 31 May 20

Results:
7 Jul 20

Last self enrolment:
15 Mar 20

Census:
31 Mar 20

Last withdraw without fail:
17 Apr 20

Aims and objectives

The aim of this unit is to provide students with the capacity to manage the finances of an organisation as well as to communicate financial decisions. Students are provided with the capacity to use financial information systems to inform decisions across a business.
 
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
 
1. Apply critical and advanced knowledge and judgements and to take effective, ethical and timely actions regarding the current and future allocation of resources in the context of a complex global business environment.
 
2. Apply advanced knowledge of quantitative skills, evaluate the assumptions, behavioural implications and qualitative factors in decision-making.
 
3. Critically analyse key problems, list uncertainties and develop strategies from accounting and financial statements.
 
4. Apply decision making processes including interpreting bias, evaluating alternatives, organising information and clearly stating assumptions.
 
5. Work in diverse groups or individually solve problems using accounting information.

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