Index
Course Title: Accounting for Management Decisions
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Accounting for Management Decisions
Credit Points: 12
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
|
ACCT2127 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
615H Accounting |
Face-to-Face | Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 2 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 2 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 2 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 2 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 2 2011 |
|
ACCT2130 |
Air Transport Training College |
Postgraduate |
615H Accounting |
Face-to-Face | Offsh 3 07
|
Course Coordinator: Barry Hutton
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 5678 0738, 9925 5747
Course Coordinator Email:barry.hutton@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Level 15 RMIT Building 108, 239 Bourke Street Melbourne Victoria Australia
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
An undergraduate degree, or its equivalent.
Course Description
Accounting for Management Decisions provides postgraduate, non-accounting students with an understanding of the role of accounting as a system of information gathering and reporting that plays an important role in business decision-making. This course is specifically designed for students with little or no prior knowledge in accounting.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
The major learning outcomes for this course is that you should have enhanced your understanding of and developed your ability to use financial, non financial and management accounting concepts and terminology in business decision-making. Successful completion of this course means that you are expected to be able to:
- Use accounting in business decision-making
- Explain the 3 financial reports
- Apply major types of financial ratio analysis
- Use major techniques of Financial & Management accounting
- Understand contemporary management accounting systems
Overview of Learning Activities
The major learning activities you face in this course this semester are lectures, tutorials and assignments.
Overview of Learning Resources
You will be expected to obtain access to and regularly use:
- the prescribed text;
- other university level text books, journals, and web sites dealing with Accounting;
- materials provided by the teaching staff;
- newspapers, magazines, and other media discussions of Accounting news and issues
Overview of Assessment
In this course, the assessment will be based on assignments
To pass this course you need to obtain at least 50% of the available marks in this course.