Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Moderator
Rahat Munir
Contact via rahat.munir@mq.edu.au
Unit Convenor
Nandini Krishna Kumar
Contact via nandini.kumar@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp including ACCG200
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This is the second of three undergraduate units in cost and management accounting and is necessary for ICAA, CPA and NIA membership. The unit focuses on strategies, cost/customer/supplier management, performance measurement systems, transfer pricing, capital expenditure analysis, capacity management, motivation, and sustainability from a management accounting perspective. By the end of this unit students should be able to propose coherent strategies and employ various approaches to measuring and managing organisational performance. In addition, students should be able to apply appropriate management accounting technologies to effectively and efficiently manage suppliers, customers, costs and quality to support organisational strategies. These outcomes contribute to the development of critical, analytical and integrative thinking and the ability to be aware of environmental and social impacts of organisational decision making.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Assessed Coursework | 15% | Weeks 2-13 |
Case Study/Report | 20% | Week 12 |
Class Tests | 15% | Weeks 4 & 9 |
Final Examination | 50% | University Examination Period |
Due: Weeks 2-13
Weighting: 15%
Submission:
Six (6) collections will be made at random during tutorials. The work collected will include the weekly tutorial homework and/or additional tutorial examples attempted in class. Best five (5) of these will be equally counted towards the 15% weightings. All homework submissions must be typed; handwritten submissions will not be accepted.
Extension:
No extension will be granted
Penalties:
A mark of ZERO will be assigned for late submission
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 20%
Students will undertake a research project. At the tutor’s discretion students will be assigned to a group of maximum 4 students. Tutor will randomly assign students with topics in the tutorial in Week 4, allowing a maximum of 3 submissions on each topic. Prior to the submission week (week 12) all reports will be presented in the class in the tutorial relevant to the topic starting from week eight. Duration of the presentation will be ten minutes and each group member has to contribute equally to the work. Feedback will be provided to the group according to the material presented to assist the students to improve the quality of the research report. Final research report is expected to be presented as a logical argument based on sound analysis of the facts and not on opinion or speculation. Point-form analysis is not acceptable. The report must be comprehensive, that is, TEN typed pages (including tables, figures and appendices), and to the point. Excessive verbosity, lack of precision or otherwise poor writing skill will affect the grade. Student must use: (a) 1.5 line spacing, and (b) 2.5cm margins. There is no word limit. Submissions will occur in the tutorials in Week 12. All research reports must have a ‘Research Report Cover Sheet’ and a title page. The research report cover sheet can be downloaded from the unit website. Please be advised that each student must write on the coversheet his/her contribution towards completion of the research report and must be signed by each student. Reports without this information will not be accepted for marking. Late submission will also not be accepted for marking, i.e., a mark of ZERO will be assigned accordingly. All groups MUST submit their reports to Turnitin prior to submission, to ensure the academic integrity of this assessment task, including plagiarism. The report of the Turnitin submission MUST be attached to the report. Details of the Turnitin can be found in iLearn
Submission:
Submissions will occur in the tutorials in Week 12
Extension:
No extension will be granted
Penalties:
A mark of ZERO will be assigned for late or non-submission
Due: Weeks 4 & 9
Weighting: 15%
There will be two class tests. First one will be conducted in Week four on topics weeks a, 2 and three. The second test will be conducted in week nine on topics weeks 4, 5,6 and 7. The class tests will consist of descriptive and/or calculative questions. . Feedback on the class tests will be provided in the tutorial two teaching weeks from the date the test was undertaken.
Submission:
In-tutorials for 20 minutes (each class test is worth 7.5%)
Extension:
No extension will be granted.
Penalties:
A mark of ZERO will be assigned for non submission. For students who get special consideration approval a supplementary test will be arranged at a later date.
Due: University Examination Period
Weighting: 50%
A three hour final examination for this unit will be held during the University Examination period. A final examination is included as an assessment task for this unit to provide assurance that:
The design of the examination paper incorporates discursive, calculative and case-study type questions based on key themes of the unit. The nature of these questions will focus on the transformation of information rather than elicit information reproduction.
Examination conditions:
Three (3) hour closed book final exam.
Non-programmable calculators with no text retrieval capacity are allowed
Dictionaries are not permitted
What is required to complete the unit satisfactorily:
1) Satisfactory completion of all assessment tasks
2) To pass this unit a student’s overall performance must be satisfactory, and additionally he/she MUST PASS the final examination
In order to be eligible for supplementary examination a student must have satisfactorily performed in all internal assessments. If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the Special Consideration process the examination will be scheduled as per the Supplementary Examination timetable of the Faculty. Please note that the supplementary examination will be of the similar format as the final examination.
Lectures
Students must attend a one and a half-hour (1 x 1.5hr) lecture every week; lecture attendance is critical to students’ learning in this unit. The lectures provide a general overview of the topics highlighting a number of concepts and techniques; include instructor-led discussions and other lecture activities. Non-attendance of lectures may result in students not being successful in this unit. Lecture slides will be available prior to the lectures in iLearn.
Tutorials
Each student must register for a tutorial group. There will be a one and a half-hour (1 x 1.5hr) tutorial each week from week one up to and including week 13. It is also an assessment requirement of this unit that students attend at least 10 of the 12 tutorials in this unit. Tutorials provide an opportunity for students to earn marks toward tutorial assignments, group research reports and in-tutorial tests.
Prizes
There are prizes for this unit, namely the CPA Australia Prize for 300-level accounting and a Macquarie University Accounting and Corporate Governance Prize. See the following website for more information:
http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/undergraduate_degrees/prizes_scholarships
Prescribed Texts
The prescribed text can be purchased from the Macquarie University Co-op Bookshop, and there are also copies of these texts placed on closed reserve in the Macquarie University Library.
Recommended Academic Journals
Please note that these journals are available electronically through Macquarie University Library.
Students are required to use information technology in this unit.
Students will need to use:
You can check that your computer’s software and hardware compatibility with Macquarie University Blackboard standard requirements at: https://learn.mq.edu.au/webct/RelativeResourceManager/25994001/Public%20Files/uw/software.html.
Unit Web Page
Course material is available on the learning management system (iLearn).The web page for this unit can be found at https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/ through which students will be able to access resources to support your learning throughout the semester. You must regularly visit the website and use it as a resource centre to assist with your learning.
The following course materials and information will be available on Blackboard:
If you are unable to access the website because you are not aware of or have forgotten your username and password, please contact the student reception located on Level 2. The IT helpdesk will also be able to assist you with using ilearn. Please note that there is also a help feature in ilearn and you may refer to this instead for assistance in using ilearn. Please remember to log out when you have finished using ilearn. Failure to do so could result in unauthorised access to your ilearn account.
Week |
Topic |
Reference/Readings |
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Management Accounting: an overview |
Chapter 1(Langfield-Smith et al., 2012) Chapter 1: Managerial Accounting: It’s more than just crunching numbers (Garrison et al., 2012) |
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Strategy and Strategic Management |
Chapter 4 (Ghillyer, 2012) |
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Managing Cost and Quality |
Chapter 16 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp736-751; pp754-760) Chapter 9 (Stevenson, 2012; pp370-408) |
4 |
Capacity Management (including Theory of Constraints) |
Chapter 16 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp751-753) Chapter 7 (Paton et al., 2011; pp207-228) |
5 |
Managing Suppliers and Customers (including time management) |
Chapter 15 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp684-693; pp701-711) |
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Managing Inventory |
Chapter 15 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp693-701) |
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Financial Performance Reports and Transfer Pricing |
Chapter 12 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012) |
8 |
Financial Performance Measurement Systems |
Chapter 13 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp606-618) |
9 |
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and Benchmarking |
Chapter 14 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012) |
10 |
Capital Expenditure Decisions |
Chapter 21 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012) |
11 |
Motivating Employees and Compensation |
Chapter 13 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012; pp618-623)
Chapter 10 (Ghillyer, 2012) |
12 |
Sustainability and Management Accounting |
Chapter 17 (Langfield-Smith et al., 2012) |
13 |
Review and Final Examination Preparation |
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