ACCT316-11S2 (C) Semester Two 2011
Public Management

Description

Disaster recovery in the context of the Christchurch earthquake is among the lines of inquiry you will study on this course. These lines will facilitate your learning of the roles accounting technologies play and the purposes accounting practices serve in how government is performed in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand and other local, provincial, national, regional and global jurisdictions.  Curriculum content will range from micro level activities of street level bureaucrats and volunteers, and take in such long lived notions as representation of the people in matters of taxation and legislation.  The learning activities are based on students being responsible for working with materials (some of them provided and others of them gathered by students), analysing them, inducing ideas and reflecting on the knowledge and skills they are learning. Assessment of learning will be bound up in these learning activities.

Learning Outcomes

To successfully complete the course, students must be able to exemplify and discuss with some critical awareness:
·  the nature and scope of public management and governance in several service and institutional contexts, including how accounting and finance figure in the contexts in question
·  relevant practices (e.g. governance, planning and budgeting, performance measurement and management, transparency and accountability, evaluation) in such contexts
·  selected current issues in the field
·  skills inherent in group working and group project outcomes (including communicating, negotiating, coordinating, presenting, other inter-personal skills entailed in accounting practice), and questioning and evaluating the work of other individuals and groups.

Pre-requisites

Restrictions

For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems on the department and colleges page.