Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 71)
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Credit points: 15.5
Coordinator: S Robertson.
Prerequisite: Accounting A2, or approved equivalent.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures, a 1-hour workshop and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- identify the need for management accounting and the contribution made by accountancy to management;
- explain various cost concepts, cost behaviours and relationships between costs, volumes and profits;
- prepare and explain cost accumulation reports incorporating job, process joint/by product, standards and direct vs. absorption techniques;
- prepare information needed for short and long term decision making and control; and
- explain the relevance and importance of planning and control with reference to internal accounting.
Content:
A consideration of the role of management accounting through the theory and practice of costs and other non cost information provided to assist in the decision making process.
Assessment:
One 2-hour examination (80 per cent); an assignment (10 per cent); class participation (10 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 71)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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