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GSB703 Advanced Management Accounting

Updated: 14 July 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Trimester 1 Off Campus C - Internet access required
ISBT Melbourne ISBT Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
ISBT Melbourne ISBT Summer On Campus C - Internet access required
ISBT Sydney ISBT Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
ISBT Sydney ISBT Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
ISBT Sydney ISBT Summer On Campus C - Internet access required
TOP Sydney TOP - Trimester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
TOP Sydney TOP - Trimester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
TOP Sydney TOP - Trimester 3 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites GSB701 and candidature in GradCertAcct or GradDipAcct or GradCertMgt or GradDipMgt or MBA or MBus or MPA or MPABus
Co-requisites None
Restrictions MBA703
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Michelle Goyen (mgoyen@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit enables MBA students to become competent providers of management accounting information for the planning and control functions within an organisation. The management accounting context includes manufacturing, retailing and the service sector for a range of organisational sizes. Case analysis is used extensively in this unit to place management accounting within its context.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Shrink Wrapped Package(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Cost Accounting plus MyAccounting Lab
ISBN: 9314994076530
Horngren, C.T. and others, Pearson Education 13th ed.
Note: Or ISBN 9314994241419 Package includes: Horngren, C.T. and others, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 13th ed. plus MyAccounting Lab (ISBN 9780135046340) and Student Solutions Manual, 13th ed. (ISBN 9780138130428).
Text refers to: Trimester 1; ISBT Semesters 1,2 and Summer; TOP Trimesters 1,2 and 3 , On and Off Campus
Cost Accounting plus MyAccounting Lab
ISBN: 9314994241419
Horngren, C.T. and others, Pearson Education 13th ed.
Note: Or ISBN 9314994076530 Package includes: Horngren, C.T. and others, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 13th ed. plus MyAccounting Lab (ISBN 9780135046340) and Student Solutions Manual, 13th ed. (ISBN 9780138130428).
Text refers to: Trimester 1; ISBT Semesters 1,2 and Summer; TOP Trimesters 1,2 and 3 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 20% ISBT On Campus 1500
Assessment Notes
Short answers
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1 and 2 GA: 1, 3, 4 & 6
Assignment 1 15% Off Campus
Assessment Notes
Accounting problems
Assignment 2 20% ISBT On Campus 1500
Assessment Notes
Essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3 and 4 GA: 1, 3, 4 & 6
Assignment 2 15% Off Campus
Assessment Notes
Accounting problems
Final Examination 2 hrs 70% Off Campus
Final Examination 2 hrs 60% ISBT On Campus
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3 and 4 GA: 1, 3, 4, & 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. understand the theory of cost and management accounting;
  2. use management accounting principles and techniques for locating decision opportunities;
  3. use management accounting principles and techniques for evaluating alternative problem solutions;
  4. use management accounting as a tool in achieving management control.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
 True True True
2 Communication Skills
3 Global Perspectives
 True True True
4 Information Literacy
 True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
6 Problem Solving
 True True True
   

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