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ACCG2000 – Management Accounting

2021 – Session 1, Special circumstances

Notice

As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.

To check the availability of face-to-face and online activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit Convenor
Dr Amy Tung
manamy.tung@mq.edu.au
Contact via 9850 9282
Level 3 Room 340, 4ER Building
Lecturer (Excel)
Nicky Bull
nicole.bull@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
50cp at 1000 level or above including ACCG100 or ACCG1000 or ACCG106
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

This unit is the first of the two units in cost and management accounting that are required for accreditation with CPA Australia, the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA). The unit explains how cost information is generated and used in organisations for decision making purposes. There are three main parts to the unit: 1) using costs for decision making; 2) costing techniques (job/process costing and cost allocations); and 3) budget setting and evaluating performance against the budget. By the end of the unit, students are able to distinguish between the various product costing techniques available, solve problems by identifying and selecting appropriate courses of action, and demonstrate an understanding of budgeting techniques and the behavioural issues associated with budgeting practices.

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://students.mq.edu.au/important-dates

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Distinguish between management and financial accounting and assess business operations using various product costing, budgeting and decision-making techniques
  • ULO2: Discuss and analyse management accounting issues and information.
  • ULO3: Use Microsoft Excel for fundamental managerial accounting planning, control and evaluation tasks.
  • ULO4: Apply appropriate management accounting concepts and techniques to formulate informed solutions to business problems.

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Final Examination 60% No Session 1 2021 Final Exam Period
Weekly Assignment 10% No Weeks 2-13
Online In-class Test 20% No Week 5 (27th March) and Week 10 (15th May) @10% each
Excel Assignment 10% No Week 8 (6pm Friday 30th April)

Final Examination

Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Session 1 2021 Final Exam Period
Weighting: 60%

 

A two hours online exam for this unit will be held during the University Examination period.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Distinguish between management and financial accounting and assess business operations using various product costing, budgeting and decision-making techniques
  • Discuss and analyse management accounting issues and information.
  • Apply appropriate management accounting concepts and techniques to formulate informed solutions to business problems.

Weekly Assignment

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Weeks 2-13
Weighting: 10%

 

Students are expected to make a genuine attempt at completing the weekly assigned tutorial questions. During the session, five weekly assignments (2% each) will be randomly collected and assessed by the tutor. Further details on the weekly assignment will be made available via the unit website.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Distinguish between management and financial accounting and assess business operations using various product costing, budgeting and decision-making techniques
  • Discuss and analyse management accounting issues and information.
  • Apply appropriate management accounting concepts and techniques to formulate informed solutions to business problems.

Online In-class Test

Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 5 (27th March) and Week 10 (15th May) @10% each
Weighting: 20%

 

Two online tests (10%) will be conducted during the session.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Distinguish between management and financial accounting and assess business operations using various product costing, budgeting and decision-making techniques
  • Discuss and analyse management accounting issues and information.
  • Apply appropriate management accounting concepts and techniques to formulate informed solutions to business problems.

Excel Assignment

Assessment Type 1: Quantitative analysis task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 8 (6pm Friday 30th April)
Weighting: 10%

 

The excel assignment will allow students to demonstrate competences in the use of excel spreadsheets and their use in management accounting. Further details on the excel assignment will be made available via the unit website.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Use Microsoft Excel for fundamental managerial accounting planning, control and evaluation tasks.
  • Apply appropriate management accounting concepts and techniques to formulate informed solutions to business problems.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Learning Skills Unit for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Classes

During the session, students should attend weekly three hours classes per topic consisting of a one-and half hour lecture and a one-and-half hour tutorial. The lecture will be online (recorded). The lecture will also be available via echo on the unit website.  Tutorials are available either face to face on campus or online via zoom. Students are advised to note that any changes to tutorial classes must be made online through eStudent. Students wishing to change their tutorial time should login to eStudent and enrol in a class where there is a vacancy. Staff members WILL NOT deal with tutorial changes unless there are exceptional circumstances. It is each student’s responsibility to know which tutorial group they have been allocated to. Students will not be awarded any tutorial marks unless they attend the class in which they are formally enrolled. The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au.

 

Prizes

Details of prizes for this unit are available at: http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/undergraduate_degrees/prizes_scholarships.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Management Accounting, Information for creating and managing value, by Kim Langfield-Smith, David A. Smith, Paul Andon, Ronald W. Hilton and Helen Thorne, 8th Edition, 2018,McGraw-Hill.

Access to this text is essential for lecture references and for tutorial questions. This text can be purchased online from Booktopia https://www.booktopia.com.au/coop 

Unit Web Page

The web page for this unit can be found at: http://ilearn.mq.edu.au

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The following information will be available on the website: • Assessment guide • Important announcements • Lecture notes • Staff consultation hours • Staff contact details • Tutorial questions and solutions • Online practice quizzes • Other relevant material

You are encouraged to regularly check the website and use it as an information and resource center to assist with your learning.

Teaching and Learning Strategy

The course is structured around a 1.5 hour lecture and a 1.5 hour tutorial per topic. Lectures are intended to provide students with an overview of the main concepts and techniques. Lectures may not cover all of the material and students are expected to read all of the prescribed references prior to the lecture. Tutorials will be run on a workshop basis with students being given the opportunity to apply the concepts to additional problems and exercises. The tutorials are designed to provide an interactive environment in which students will be able to discuss issues and problems with each other, and their tutor, in order to improve their understanding of material. Regular class attendance, reading of prescribed references and the completion of tutorial and revision questions are essential for satisfactory progress in this course.

Lecture slides and additional material for tutorials and lectures will be available to download via the unit website.  Any other announcement regarding the unit will also be available from the website.

Unit Schedule

UNIT SCHEDULE

Lecture

Week

Week

Commencing:

 

Topic

 

Prescribed references

1

 

22nd Feb

Introduction & Basic cost concepts and terms

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

2

1st Mar

Cost Volume Profit Analysis

Chapter 18

3

8th Mar

Product Costing Systems – Job Costing

Chapter 4 pp.132-144 and pp.147-159

4

15th Mar

Excel Lecture

All excel videos and the excel assignment

5

22nd Mar

 

Process Costing

Online test Saturday 27th March  (time to be advised via ilearn)

Chapter 4 pp.145-146 and

pp.160-163;

Chapter 5 pp.185-197

6

29th Mar

A Closer Look at Overhead Costs

Chapter 7

 

5th Apr-16th Apr

MID SESSION BREAK

 
7 19th Apr Activity-Based Costing Chapter 8

8

26th Apr

Service Costing

Excel assignment due on Friday 30 Apr  6 pm

Chapter 6

9

3rd May

 

Information for Decisions

 

 

Chapter 19

10

 

10th May

Product Mix Decisions

Online test Saturday 15th May (time to be advised via ilearn)

Chapter 20 pp. 967-975; pp. 980-983; pp. 988-991

11

17th May

Budgeting

Chapter 9

Chapter 11 pp. 522 –528

12

24th May

Standard Costing for Control

Chapter 10

Chapter 11 pp. 529-546

13

31st May

Final Exam Revision

 

 

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Students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.

If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).

Student Code of Conduct

Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/other-resources/student-conduct

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Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.

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