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ACC40670

Academic Year 2024/2025

Accounting for Performance and Control (ACC40670)

Subject:
Accountancy
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
8
Module Coordinator:
Ms Celine Craddock
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Accounting for Performance and Control builds on the Performance Measurement and Management course offered in the first trimester. Accounting for Performance and Control aims to develop each student's appreciation of the importance of control in organisations and ensure that each student understands the implications of strategy for the design of management control systems. The course aims to allow students to develop an in-depth understanding of performance, control and compensation system design, and to ensure that each student has a high-level of expertise in preparing and analysing accounting information for control purposes.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants should:(i) understand the different forms of control which exist in organisations(ii) have a detailed knowledge of the various forms of financial and non-financial control systems that are in wide-spread use (iii) be able to critically evaluate these systems(iv) be able to prepare and analyse accounting information for control purposes(v) have a detailed knowledge of the more commonly-found compensation systems(vi) and be able to critically evaluate compensation system designs.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

60
Autonomous Student Learning

66
Total

150

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Case based learning, flipped class room.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): Exam: Final Exam 2 hour end of Trimester exam, closed book exam End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

60

 No
Group Work Assignment: Group Presentations Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No

20

 No
Group Work Assignment: Presentation of group work Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No

20

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback is provided to students after the presentations and case reports.

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