Description
A student-centred study of theories and practice of management and governance in the public sector, from an accounting, organisations and societal perspective.
Governing government and managing change (e.g., in the context of revitalising a community affected by a natural or man-made crisis) are 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.
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YOU SHOULD VISIT THE ACCT316 LEARN SITE ON OR BEFORE 9 AM., MONDAY 9 JULY TO FIND OUT HOW TO CONDUCT YOUR LEARNING AND TO COLLECT YOUR LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT MATERIALS. AS WILL BE ADVISED THERE, THE FIRST FACE-TO-FACE CLASS MEETING FOR THIS COURSE WILL BE ON THURSDAY 26 JULY, FROM WHEN THE CLASS WILL MEET AS PER THE TABLE BELOW.
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Timetable
YOU SHOULD VISIT THE ACCT316 LEARN SITE ON OR BEFORE 9 AM., MONDAY 9 JULY TO FIND OUT HOW TO CONDUCT YOUR LEARNING AND TO COLLECT YOUR LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT MATERIALS. AS WILL BE ADVISED THERE, THE FIRST FACE-TO-FACE CLASS MEETING FOR THIS COURSE WILL BE ON THURSDAY 26 JULY, FROM WHEN THE CLASS WILL MEET AS PER THE TABLE ABOVE.
The course has a credit value of 15 points and so involves 150 hours of learning and assessment. Scheduled class meetings are as above. Students will be given a programme of activities in which participation at these meetings plays a significant part alongside working in smaller groups face-to-face and through LEARN conferencing.
Course Coordinator
Keith Dixon
Assessment
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Activity One - Management
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12 Aug 2012
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20%
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Activity Two - Governance
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23 Sep 2012
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30%
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Final Examination
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50%
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"Take-Away Exam" administered through Learn
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Examination and Formal Tests
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Exam
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Wednesday
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07 Nov 2012
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9:30am-12:30pm
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Notes
See ACIS Course Policies
For further information see
Department of Accounting and Information Systems on the department and colleges page.
All ACCT316 Occurrences
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ACCT316-12S2 (C)
Semester Two 2012
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