Management Accounting
Undergraduate
TAS-BFA312 2022Course information for 2022 intake View information for 2025 course intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Management Accounting
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain and apply management accounting techniques for business planning and control.
- Identify and analyse behavioural accounting, ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability issues applicable to management accounting and decision making.
- Use professional written communication to report decisions and recommendations from management accounting information.
- Overview of management accounting
- Job-order costing
- Process costing
- Activity based management/costing
- Master Budgeting
- Standard costing, flexible budgeting, and variance analysis
- Cost-volume-profit analysis
- Short and Long run Decisions
- Resource Management
- Environmental and social management accounting
Management accounting is an essential subject for students studying the Accounting major in the Bachelor of Business.
Students will apply techniques to support management decision-making in respect of product costing, variance analysis, inventory management, budgeting and forecasting. The subject emphasises the application of quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyse cost behaviour. Students will evaluate the performance of products and business segments by applying the processes and techniques of management accounting that focus on the effective and efficient use of organisational resources. Students will also be introduced to theories of human behaviour and the impact on the design of performance measurement systems.
- Online Test Via Respondus (20%)
- Case Study (35%)
- Online Test via Respondus (45%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-BAC-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
Elective
- TAS-BEC-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Economics
- TAS-BPS-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Psychological Science
- TAS-BBS-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Science
Prior study
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:
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
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
Undergraduate
TAS-BAC-DEGBachelor of Business and Bachelor of Economics
Undergraduate
TAS-BEC-DEGBachelor of Business and Bachelor of Psychological Science
Undergraduate
TAS-BPS-DEGBachelor of Business and Bachelor of Science
Undergraduate
TAS-BBS-DEG