Undergraduate - UnitAFC3141 - Strategic management accounting

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Synopsis

The provision and use of management accounting information for strategy implementation, management planning, and control in organisations. The unit aims to provide an in-depth understanding of how performance management systems can be designed to support the strategy of an organisation. Issues related to the design, implementation and use of contemporary performance management systems and techniques are covered, as are behavioural aspects of management accounting systems.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

1. illustrate how management accounting systems can be designed to support strategy
2. apply management accounting techniques to strategic business decisions
3. critically assess strategic management accounting concepts and techniques
4. analyse and make recommendations regarding the design of strategic management accounting systems
5. apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with strategic management accounting issues and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFC3141.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination (3 hours): 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Aldonio Ferreira

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

AFC2130 or AFC2131

Prohibitions

AFC3130, AFF3511