MAA703 - Accounting for Management

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s): 1
Previously coded as: MAA616
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

MPA701 or MPA751/MPT751 or MAA717

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: MAA262, MAA752, MAA774
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.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

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

Scheduled learning activities - online

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.

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

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