BX2012 - Cost and Management Accounting
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Analysis of the concepts and techniques relevant to providing accounting and related data for management planning, control and decision making.
Learning Outcomes
- 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;
- explain the uses and limitations of cost data for planning operations; controlling activities; and decision making.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
- The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to manage future career and personal development;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
- The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
- The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
- The ability to work individually and independently.
| Prerequisites: | (CO1002 OR CO1101 OR BU1002 OR BU1902) AND (BX2011 OR CO1003 OR CO1001) |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CO2101 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Chris Durden |
| Lecturer: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); assignments (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2013 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed. |
| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); assignments (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2013 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Chris Durden. |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 21-Mar-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Chris Durden |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 18-Jul-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 14-Nov-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Chris Durden |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 18-Apr-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 15-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 13-Dec-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); essays (15%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
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