MAA703 - Accounting for Management

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Previously coded as:MAA616
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Belete Jember (BJ) Bobe
Trimester 2: Simon Fung
Prerequisite:

MPA701 or MPA751/MPT751 or MAA717

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: MAA262, MAA752, MAA774
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3 hour on-campus seminar (recordings provided) each week

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 3 hour online seminar (recordings provided) in weeks 5, 9 and 11

Content

In this unit, students learn about how management accounting satisfies management's need for information for planning and control purposes.  It covers cost concepts, cost-volume-profit relationships, product costing systems, activity-based costing, budgeting and standard costs. Topics also include financial performance analysis, decentralised operations, relevant costs for decision making, and contemporary approaches to measuring performance.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Develop and apply management accounting techniques for costing, control, planning, budgeting and performance measurement and management.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Identify, locate and synthesise management accounting information from diverse sources.

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO3

Justify individual responsibility for planning and achieving team goals in completing the case study analysis.

GLO7: Teamwork

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: (Individual) Case study analysis (video presentation) 6 minutes 10% Week 5

Assessment 2:
Part A: (Group of 4) Case Study: Data Analysis and Report (Analytical) 
Part B: (Individual) Written Reflection (self) 

Part A: 2500 words
Part B: 800 words

Part A: 20%
Part B: 10%

Week 8
Examination - Specified Resources 2 hours 60% End-of-unit assessment period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

Hurdle requirement: achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the examination to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned discipline learning outcomes included in this unit

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: MAA703 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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