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ACCT20053 Issues in Management Accounting

Course details

This course introduces the concept of managerial accounting and enables students to argue the difference between financial and management accounting. Students will be introduced to the traditional approaches to costing such as job-order costing and process costing. Time will also be spent looking at some of the alternative accounting systems in operations costing and backflush costing. This course also introduces the additional purposes of management accounting in provision of information for decision making and the evaluation of past decisions. Budgets are studied in depth along with performance evaluation.


Course at a glance
Career: Postgraduate
Credit points: 8
Requisites: Prerequisite course ACCT 20052
Student Contribution Band: 3
EFTSL: 0.16667
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Term Campus
2008 Term One BNE FLEX GDC MEL ROK SYD
2008 Term Two BNE FLEX GDC MEL ROK SYD
2008 Term Three BNE FLEX GDC MEL NZDS SYD
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