ACCT316-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018

Public Management and Governance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 18 May 2018

Description

Public service organizations (PSOs) deliver public services locally, nationally and internationally. This course covers their governance and management irrespective of whether the organisations in question are situated in the public, private, or third sectors. The course is especially interesting for examining PSOs in the context of various challenges, including recovering from natural disasters, and ambiguous public expectations. Curriculum content ranges from micro level activities of street level bureaucrats and volunteers to macro-level activities of multi-lateral organisations. The learning activities are based on students being responsible for working with materials, analysing them, inducing ideas and reflecting on the knowledge and skills they are learning.

Learning Outcomes

Having engaged in learning during the course, students will be able to exemplify and discuss with some critical awareness:
*  The nature and scope of public management and governanace 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
*  Skills inherent in group working and group project outcomes (including communication, negotiating, coordinating, presenting, other inter-personal skills entailed in accounting practice), and questioning and evaluating the work of other individuals and groups.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Biculturally competent and confident

Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Any 75 points from ACCT, ECON, EURA, EURO, FINC, INFO, MGMT, MKTG, POLS, LAWS206. At least 45 of these points must be at 200-level.

Restrictions

ACIS316, AFIS316, AFIS516, POLS316

Equivalent Courses

ACIS316, and AFIS316

Course Coordinator

Keith Dixon

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Learning Reflections 24% Four @ 6% each
Team Assessment 26%
Final Exam 50%

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $790.00

International fee $3,350.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .

All ACCT316 Occurrences

  • ACCT316-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018