James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

CO2101:03

Management Accounting 1

Townsville, Cairns HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 12 hours workshops. Semester 1.

Staff: Ms K Ness (Townsville campus); Dr R Nandan (Cairns campus).

The concepts and techniques relevant to providing accounting and related data for management planning, control and decision making.

Learning Objectives:

  1. explain the uses and limitations of cost data for planning operations; controlling activities; and decision making.
  2. describe, evaluate and demonstrate the technical skills necessary to problem solve in the areas of product costing; cost behaviour; cost volume profit analysis; budgeting; and performance analysis.

Assessment by computer based assignment (5%); on-course test (15%); final examination (80%).