CO5103 - Strategic Financial and Resource Management
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Available to GuangZhou students - As outlined in the JCU/GuangZhou University agreement. Available to the Townsville students - as outined in the Master of Professional Accounting course.
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: | CO5117 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 8 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 04-Aug-2008 to 11-Sep-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
| Lecturer: | Mr Rafiuddin Ahmed. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 4 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 03-Mar-2008 to 14-Apr-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Brendan O'Connell, Dr Chris Durden. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 8 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 04-Aug-2008 to 10-Sep-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
| Lecturer: | Dr Chris Durden. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 25-Jul-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 28-Nov-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| Guangzhou, Block, Study Period 83 | |
| Census Date 18-Apr-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 05-Apr-2008 to 11-May-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 15-Aug-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 12-Dec-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Brendan O'Connell |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (35%); assignments (25%). |
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