Unit of Study


Current Issues in Management Accounting
UoS CodeACCT3032
Credit points6
OfferedSemester 1
PrerequisitesACCT2012 or ACCT2002
Lectures3 hrs of lectures/tutorials per week
AssessmentContinuous assessment; In-class essay; Final examination.
DescriptionThis unit builds on the fundamentals of management accounting practice (ACCT2012) by introducing a series of advanced management accounting topics such as strategic management accounting, innovation and change in management accounting and designing management accounting systems for new organizational forms. In addition, this unit relaxes the hitherto held assumption that management accounting works in a world characterised by certainty and rationality and instead shows that management accounting more often operates in a world characterised by fuzziness and ambiguity. This real-world view requires students to develop their judgemental skills and to adopt a more critical and reflective approach that challenges their beliefs about how management accounting works in practice.

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