ACCT623-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Management Accounting Research

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

The course examines current issues in management accounting research.

This course examines current issues in management accounting research.
Management accounting is an interdisciplinary subject that draws on accounting, engineering, finance, information systems, management, marketing, psychology and sociology for the purposes of organisational management. There are several streams of management accounting:
• Cost and operations management, e.g., activity-based costing and management
• Planning and budgeting, e.g., periodic vs. rolling target setting
• Value chain analysis from suppliers to consumers and compared to competitors, e.g., customer
profitability analysis
• Organisational structure, culture and systems, e.g., transfer pricing
• Performance measurement and incentive schemes, e.g., ROI vs EVA
• Short- and long-term decision-making, e.g., NPV vs. real options for investment decisions

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

ACIS623, AFIS623

Course Coordinator

Beverley Lord

Lecturers

Christopher Akroyd , Julia Wu and Natasja Steenkamp

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 20%
Literature Review 40%
Student Presentation 20%
Participation in Seminars 20%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,037.00

* 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 .

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