Module overview
Linked modules
Pre-requisite: MANG1045
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically discuss some technological developments that have impacted management accounting.
- critically discuss the significance of non-financial management accounting information;
- analyse and conduct a detailed examination of specific aspects of management accounting;
- critically evaluate the usefulness of specific management accounting techniques in organisations;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- specific aspects of management accounting, and the ancillary skills to support those features within organisations.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply management accounting techniques in decision making;
- analyse and synthesise short case studies in management accounting.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 30 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 22 |
Completion of assessment task | 26 |
Lecture | 22 |
Follow-up work | 22 |
Revision | 16 |
Seminar | 12 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Drury. C., and Tayles. M. (2021). Management and Cost Accounting. Cengage Learning EMEA.
Merchant K. A. and Van der Stede W. A. (2012). Management Control System – Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives. Prentice Hall.
W. Seal, R. Garrison and E. Noreen (2012). Management Accounting. McGraw-Hill.
Bhimani. A., Horngren. C.T., Datar. S., and Foster. G. (2011). Management and Cost Accounting. Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
In-class activities
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: The following (activities) will provide the opportunity for students to get meaningful formative feedback: - In-lecture illustrative/review questions/problems/case studies. - Weekly in-class (workshop style) solving or discussion of exercises and review questions/problems and case studies. - At the end of each week, suggested solutions of weekly in-class exercises and review questions/problems will be uploaded to the module’s Blackboard website. - Tutor (students’) responses to students’ questions during lectures, classes or through other means (e.g. email and Blackboard-Discussion Board).
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Examination | 70% |
Multiple choice Test | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Examination | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External