CO5126 - Strategic Performance Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
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
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coordinator:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Lecturer:	Mr Ian Burnett.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - As per Subject Guide
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - As per Subject Guide
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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:	Mrs Sue Ciccotosto
Lecturer:	Mr John Pifko.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Student 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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