Management Accounting for Planning and Control
Duration
- One Semester or equivalentThis unit will be delivered on-line in Semester 2 2020.
Contact hours
- 36 hours
2020 teaching periods
Hawthorn
| Higher Ed. Semester 2 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: |
Swinburne Online
| Teaching Period 3 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: |
Prerequisites
50 Credit Points from a Bachelor degree
AND
Aims and objectives
This unit aims to equip you with enhanced knowledge of management accounting processes and techniques designed to enhance the effective and efficient use of organisational resources. You will learn technical and analytical skills required to analyse relevant information that supports managerial decisions in enhancing both customer and shareholder values.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1 Analysing the relationship between cost, volume and profit, and its implications for managerial decision making
2 Develop and evaluate costing systems including job and process costing, and apply cost allocation methods such as Activity Based Costing (ABC)
3 Prepare budgets and analyse variances between planned and actuals.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Face to Face Mode:
Scheduled hours: Lectures (12 x 1 hour) - 12 hours, Tutorials (12 x 2 hours) 24 hours
Online Mode: SOL
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
To be successful, students should:
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Scheduled hours: Lectures (12 x 1 hour) - 12 hours, Tutorials (12 x 2 hours) 24 hours
Online Mode: SOL
Engaging with online content and discussions
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study periodThis includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Non-scheduled learning events and activities (including directed online learning activities, assessments, independent study, student group meetings, and research)
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
1. Test (Individual) 30-40%
2. Tutorial Preparation (Individual) 10-20%
4. Final Examination (Individual) 40-60%
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
- problem solving skills
- analysis skills
- communication skills
- ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
- ability to work independently
Content
- Cost behaviour, drivers and estimation
- Introduction to product and service costing
- Overhead costs and Activity based costing
- Tactical decision making
- Job and process costing
- Cost volume profit analysis
- Budgeting
- Standard costing and flexible budgets
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.