Overview:
- Credits:
- 5.0
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Spring
- Subject:
- Accountancy
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Jack Massey
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Curricular information is subject to change
On completing this module participants should:
- have mastered management accounting concepts and tools that support the successful implementation of strategy;
- be able to develop management accounting information that motivate the right organisational behaviours;
- be able to develop the correct management accounting information for different types of decision-making;
- be able to modify or request modifications to management accounting systems for decision making, and planning and control.
- Management accounting and performance management
- Cost concepts and behaviour
- Costing systems
- Cost allocation and Activity-Based Costing
- Relevant costs and decision-making;
- Cost-volume-profit analysis
- Budgetary planning and control
- Decentralisation and evaluation of investment centres
- Transfer pricing
- Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Maps
- Sustainability strategies and application of management accounting tools
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Specified Learning Activities | 16 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 85 |
Lectures | 24 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Examination: End of term examination at exam centre | 2 hour End of Trimester Exam | No | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 50 |
Group Project: Group Case Study involving production of both a written report and a class presentation | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 30 |
Continuous Assessment: Class preparation & participation, including completion of assigned exercises | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 20 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
---|---|
Autumn | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
Feedback will be given in a timely manner. Each Group will receive individual timely written feedback on their group project. For exercises/assignments submitted via Brightspace quizzes, a solution and mark will be delivered the day after the submission deadline. Qualitative aspects of the exercises will be discussed in class with further opportunity for questions and feedback.