Cost Analysis for Decision Making

• • Introduction
  • Management Accounting
  • Cost terms and concepts
  • Cost behaviour, cost drivers and cost estimation
  • Product Costing
  • Activity based costing
  • Budgeting systems
  • Cost- Volume-Profit analysis
  • Information for decisions: relevant costs and benefits
  • Preparation for Case Report
  • Introduction to strategy and control systems

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

one of

• CUR-ACC102-Financial Decision Making
• CUR-ACC240-Accounting - The Fundamentals of Business
• CUR-ACC100-Accounting - The Language of Business (No longer available)

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Foundation subject around management accounting techniques integrated with statistical methods applied to; costing models, profit planning and decision making techniques.

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• Semester Test (30%)
• Work compilation (40%)
• eTest (30%)

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