Advanced Management Accounting

Description

Unit description: Presents advanced knowledge and skills in management accounting for support in organisational strategic decision-making. Students will develop and apply analytical and problem-solving skills to provide advice on issues associated with strategy development, implementation and monitoring. Using case studies, students will tackle contemporary issues such as sustainable management practices, effective corporate social responsibility and managing multi-national operations. Unit content: Module 1: Review of strategic management accounting concepts for decision making and managing product mix and product pricing Module 2: Managing supply chains, just in time inventory management and corporate sustainability Module 3: The balanced scorecard framework Module 4: Governance and risk management and managing multinational operations – responsibility accounting Module 5: Managing multinational operations – Transfer pricing Module 6: Managing and compensating executive performance and measuring shareholder value Learning outcomes: Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes . The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.