Advanced Management Accounting


Quick Info

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: ACC310
  • Credit points: 10
  • Subject coordinator: Pratima Durga

Prerequisites

The following courses are prerequisites:

Awards offering Advanced Management Accounting

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Identify and discuss how management accounting techniques can provide managers with the information to assist them in decision making and achieving the organisational goals and objectives; 
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of strategic management decision making; 
  3. Critically analyse current management accounting techniques and practices in their organisational context; and evaluate alternate management accounting systems and make recommendations for strategic improvements within operational constraints; 
  4. Describe and discuss contemporary issues and developments in management accounting; 
  5. Critically evaluate the use of financial verses non-financial performance measures;
  6. Identify and discuss role of management accounting in a dynamic environment (global, technical, business and social).  

Subject Content

  1. Accounting for strategic management 
  2. Management control systems 
  3. Costing systems and total quality management
  4. Value-chain analysis 
  5. Customer and competitor analysis 
  6. Financial performance measure 
  7. Measuring non-financial performance 
  8. Balanced scorecard and benchmarking analysis
  9. Incentive and compensation systems   
  10. Managing costs and quality 
  11. Strategic decision making 
  12. Managing strategic capital expenditure decisions

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face-to-Face
  • Distance / Global Online

 

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  1. Three Online Quizzes (15%)
  2. Business Report (15%)
  3. Written Report (20%)
  4. Final Exam (50%)

Prescribed Text

 Langfield-Smith, K., Thorne, H., Smith, D. & Hilton, R.W. (2015), Management Accounting: Information for Creating and Managing Value (7th ed.)  McGraw-Hill Education Australia. 
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