The following is a guide for how the 150 hours study load for this unit should be allocated.

Turnitin

All text based assessments must be submitted through Turnitin as per instructions provided in the unit guide. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that work is submitted correctly prior to the due date. No hard copies of assessments will be accepted and only Turnitin records will be taken as records of submission.   Multiple submissions may be possible in some units via Turnitin prior to the final due date and time of an assessment task and originality reports may be made available to students to view and check their work. All identified matching text will be reconsidered carefully. Students should note that the system will not immediately produce the similarity score on a second or subsequent submission - it approximately takes 24 hours for the report to be generated. This may be after the due date so students should plan any resubmissions carefully. Please refer to these instructions on how to submit your assignment through Turnitin and access similarity reports and feedback provided by teaching staff. Should you have questions about Turnitin or experience issues submitting through the system, you must inform your unit coordinator immediately. If the issue is technical in nature may also lodge OneHelp Ticket, refer to the IT help page.   It is the responsibility of the student to retain a copy of any work submitted. Students must produce these documents upon request. Copies should be retained until the end of the grade appeal period each term. In the event that a student is asked to produce another copy of work submitted and is unable to do so, they may be awarded zero (0) for that particular assessment task.

Classes

This unit is structured around attendance at one 3 hour class per week. A link to the timetable can be found here : http://timetables.mq.edu.au

Class attendance is compulsory.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Prescribed Text:

CPA Handbook Global Strategy and Leadership (2018) CPA Australia

Recommended Reading:

Johnson G., Scholes, K., Whittington R. (2008), Exploring Corporate Strategy: Texts and Cases 8^th ed, Prentice Hall, Harlow, Essex.

Hubbard, G., Rice, I., Beamish, P (2008), Strategic Management: Thinking, Analysis, Action 3^rd ed, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest.

Students can also access additional materials via CPA Online learning. Details regarding this can be obtained within the CPA program guide made available to students upon enrolment with CPA. Students are encouraged to utilise this material.

There is generally a large amount of published literature available concerning strategic management. Students are therefore also encouraged to perform their own research (eg library, internet) during the semester to further explore the content covered within the prescribed and suggested reference texts, and, in class discussion.

Unit Web Page

Course material is available on the learning management system (iLearn). The web page for this unit can be found at http://ilearn.mq.edu.au. Ensure that you have regular access to technology that has reliable connectivity to the internet.

• The Webpage will contain important unit materials including:

•  Course details—An outline of the unit

• Announcements—notices updating students on important matters regarding the unit

• Lecture slides

•  Results for the mid semester exam

Teaching and Learning Activities

The unit is structured around a 3 hour session.

Lectures will provide students with the main concepts and techniques and these will cover the most significant parts of the content from the CPA Material. Students are expected to work through the material independently and to read the relevant module prior to lecture attendance. Some class discussion/activity will also be undertaken to consolidate the student’s knowledge of the material covered within each week’s lecture.

For each module, PowerPoint lecture notes will be placed on iLearn before the class. They are NOT intended to, nor do they stand alone nor do they in any way replace compulsory lecture attendance and FULL READING OF THE CPA Modules. They are provided for your convenience.

There have been no changes since last offering.

You are not entitled to rely on notes provided by the lecturer for full study purposes nor most importantly can they be taken as being a defined indicator of CPA exam content.

Active participation in class is expected of every student. This helps clarify ideas, understanding and problem areas with the material, as well as enhancing your communication skills.

 Ways to enhance your chance of success in this unit:

During 2007 the Master of Accounting program engaged in a significant research project that was designed to investigate and find ways to enhance student participation in the classroom.

Students who were interviewed during the research project stated that participating in classroom discussions, answering lecturer’s questions and engaging in meaningful discussion with colleagues when directed by the lecturer:

1.    assists them in retaining information and maintaining interest and concentration

2.    allows them to clarify or check their understanding

3.    provides opportunities to enhance and reinforce knowledge and learn from other students

4.    improves their English proficiency

5.    supports their development of communication skills develops skills needed in professional practice.

Lecturers expect students to participate in class as it:

1.    provides opportunities for students to review or clarify lecture content and benefit from the experience of other students

2.    assists students to think about concepts and test whether their understanding is correct

3.    develops confidence in speaking

4.    provides opportunities to think in a different way

The research concluded that the benefits of participation include:

•  enhancing the learning process

• meeting lecturers’ expectations of students

• helping to increase communication skills.

The major change in this unit is that CPA will no longer provide students with a "pre-seen case study" prior to the CPA exam. Students will receive the exam within the allocated exam time.  The structure of the CPA is approximately 85% MCQ and 15% written questions. The group assessment for this unit has been changed to enable students valuable practice in case study analysis and exam preparation.

 This unit addresses global and sustainability issues as direct areas of study and as necessary implications arising from the materials, assessment and academic discussion and debate in classes/seminars. We promote sustainability by developing ability in students to research and locate information within accounting discipline. We aim to provide students with an opportunity to obtain skills which will benefit them throughout their career. The unit materials have a reference list at the end of each module containing all references cited by the author. These provide some guidance to references that could be used to research particular issues.