Overview:
- Credits:
- 5.0
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Spring
- Subject:
- Accountancy
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Dr Emma McDaid
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Curricular information is subject to change
On completing this module you should
- know and master some key tools in managerial accounting and evaluate their relevance so as to know when to use them appropriately for decision-making and control of decisions made;
- be able to explain how the cost and managerial information system that supports these tools operates;
- understand how managerial accounting information affects behaviour and decision-making;
- be able to modify or request modifications to the managerial information system to meet the specific decision-making needs of any organizational unit
- understand how managerial accounting can be used to support internal environmental management processes
- 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
- Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Maps
- Sustainability strategies and application of management accounting tools
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Lectures | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 16 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 85 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Multiple Choice Questionnaire (Short): A Brightspace quiz comprising short quantitative and MCQs available on 24 February for completion by 9 March. Questions will be randomised, with no return to earlier questions. Quiz is 'open-book'. | Week 6 | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 15 |
Continuous Assessment: Class participation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Continuous Assessment: Preparation of assigned cases/exercises for class | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 40 |
Assignment: A short case study assignment available on 24 February for completion by 9 March. | Week 6 | n/a | Graded | No | 35 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
---|---|
Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
Feedback will be given in a timely manner. 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.