CO5126 - Strategic Performance Management

[To be introduced in Cairns, Townsville in 2012. ]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject focuses on the provision and use of management accounting and other information for strategic planning and decision making and performance management in organisations.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyse management accounting information in a wide range of decision contexts in both service and manufacturing industries;
• Explain the behavioural implications of performance measurement systems;
• Apply financial and non-financial performance measurement techniques that enable managers to measure strategic performance;
• Apply management accounting techniques for managing customers, suppliers, quality and sustainability;
• Apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with performance measurement issues.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to think laterally and be original;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems.

Prerequisites:

CO5103

Availabilities
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 17-Nov-2011
Coordinator:	Dr Chris Durden
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Each student must achieve an overall total of 50% or greater for all invigilated assessment.
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23
Census Date 08-Dec-2011
Coordinator:	Dr Chris Durden
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Each student must achieve an overall total of 50% or greater for all invigilated assessment.
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22
Census Date 11-Aug-2011
Coordinator:	Dr Chris Durden, Professor Lyndal Drennan
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Each student must achieve an overall total of 50% or greater for all invigilated assessment.

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