CO5103 - Strategic Financial and Resource Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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This subject introduces emergent thinking about the interfaces between financial and business performance, with a focus on adding value to the business rather than emphasising financial control. The link between strategy, resourcing and change is highlighted, in focusing on the effective use of an organisation's financial and other resources in creating value for organisational stakeholders, with a special focus on customers and shareholders.

Learning Outcomes

• develop an appreciation of the managerial and organisational dimensions of strategic resource management;
• ability to evaluate the role of management accounting technologies in enabling and constraining the strategic management of organisational resources;
• ability to articulate the strategic location of enterprise resource management, and to develop an array of skills which constitute the technologies of contemporary management accounting work;
• develop analytic and evaluative skills, enabling the competent realisation of management accounting work;
• ability to demonstrate a critical appreciation of contemporary strategic resource management literature and practice.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools.

Prerequisites:

As contained in the JCU/GuangZhou University agreement.

Availabilities
, , Study Period 32
Census Date 06-May-2005
Non-standard start/end 02-Feb-2005 to 17-Jul-2005
Face to face teaching 02-Feb-2005 to 30-Jun-2005
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (35%); (25%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.