Advanced Management Accounting

Code

BUSI3185

School

Business

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year UK

Summary

This module will discuss some or all of the following topics:

Pricing decisions and profitability analysis; Measuring business performance; Strategic management accounting (including strategic cost management); Issues in management accounting and control; Current issues in management accounting. 

Target Students

Part II undergraduate students who have taken BUSI2147.Available to exchange students.

Co-requisites

Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:

• Management Accounting (BUSI2147)

Classes

• One 2-hour seminar each week for 6 weeks
• One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 22 weeks

Lectures: 33 hours Seminars: 12 hours Preparation for seminars: 24 hours Reading and question practice: 69 hours Assessment preparation: 62 hours

Assessment

• 50% Coursework: Individual coursework (2,000 words). Reassessment for this module is 100% exam.
• 50% Exam (2-hour): Exam (2 questions out of 3)

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:
•    The dynamic and changing nature of business and the consideration of the future organisations within the global business environment, including the management of risk.
•    The management of customer expectations, relationships and development of service excellence.
•    The use of accounting and other information systems for planning, control, and decision making.
•    The management of resources.
•    The management of quality systems.
•    The development, management, application and implementation of information systems and their impact upon organisations.
•    The comprehension and use of relevant communications for application in business and management including the use of digital tools.
•    The development of appropriate policies and strategies within a changing environment to meet stakeholder interests.
•    The development of strategic priorities to deliver business at speed in an environment where digital technology has reshaped traditional revenue and business models.
•    Decision analysis, performance measurement and management control.

Intellectual skills: This module develops
•    The ability to analyse facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and identifying and selecting appropriate solutions.
•    Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
 

Professional practical skills: This module develops:
•    Numeracy and quantitative skills to manipulate data, evaluate, estimate and model business problems, functions and phenomena.
•    Qualitative skills, including the ability to work with case studies.
 

Transferable (key) skills: This module develops:
•    Self-management and a readiness to accept responsibility and flexibility, to be resilient, self-starting and appropriately assertive, to plan, organise and manage time. 
•    Articulating and effectively explaining information. 

Conveners

• Dr Douglas Adu