ADVANCED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

This course provides students with an appreciation of the increasingly important management accounting issues of organisational cost management and management control systems. Here, technical issues of cost management and management accounting control systems are explored within a broader social and organisational context. 

The course explores management accounting techniques for cost management, including life-cycle costing and the theory of constraints; develops an appreciation of the forms, benefits and limitations of management accounting systems; and examines behavioural consequences of the implementation of management accounting systems as well as managerial decision making in organisations.