• Offered by Research School of Accounting
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Business
  • Areas of interest Accounting, Commerce, Management
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Zhichao Wang
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in First Semester 2020
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This course provides students with an appreciation of the increasingly important management accounting issues of organisational cost management, management control systems and managerial decision making. The course extends on control and performance measurement by exploring advanced technical issues of cost management and management accounting control systems within a broader social and organisational context. Specifically, this course explores management accounting techniques for cost management, including life-cycle costing and the theory of constraints; develops an appreciation of the forms, benefits and limitations of management accounting systems; explores the issues surrounding managerial decision making; and examines behavioural consequences of the implementation of management accounting systems in organisations.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. Critically analyse and provide recommendations to improve organisational cost management practices through the application of alternative management accounting techniques;
  2. Critically analyse and evaluate current management accounting techniques and practices in their organisational context;
  3. Demonstrate mastery of the organisational, social and environmental context of management accounting;
  4. Evaluate management accounting control systems design and implementation in organisations;
  5. Learn within teams — to co-operate with team members, to assume leadership and to manage differences and conflicts;
  6. Evaluate complex ideas and tolerate ambiguity in managerial and organisational problem-solving.

Other Information

Indicative Assessment

  1. Typical assessment may include, but is not restricted to, class participation, assignment(s), quizzes and examination(s) as appropriate to assess the learning outcomes of the course (null) [LO null]

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Workload

Students taking this course are expected to commit at least 10 hours a week to completing the work. This will include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (including non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assignment work.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed BUSN7031. This course is incompatible with BUSN3003.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

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Student Contribution Band:
3
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $3900
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $6000
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
3445 24 Feb 2020 02 Mar 2020 08 May 2020 05 Jun 2020 In Person View

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