110329

Advanced Management Accounting

Course
A study of advanced topics and contemporary issues in management accounting in a range of industry settings, including strategic management and performance management.
Course code

Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using 6 digits.

110329
Level

The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).

300-level
Credits

Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.

15
Subject
Accountancy

Course planning information

Course notes

This course includes a compulsory in-person exam. In this course, students will learn to use various tools and techniques, including spreadsheets to perform sensitivity analysis and apply regression models to historical data, to assess risks, analyse trends, estimate future outcomes, and enhance decision-making under uncertainty.

Prerequisite courses

Complete first

You need to complete the above course or courses before moving onto this one.

Restrictions

Similar content
110320

You cannot enrol in this course if you have passed (or are enrolled in) any of the course(s) above as these courses have similar content or content at a higher level.

General progression requirements

You must complete at least 45 credits from 200-level before enrolling in 300-level courses.

Learning outcomes

What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.

  • 1 Appraise the benefits and limitations of approaches to costing in relation to specified organisations.
  • 2 Evaluate issues involved in strategic management accounting in organisations.
  • 3 Contrast the merits and problems of performance measurement approaches used in management accounting.
  • 4 Apply leadership capabilities to navigate uncertainty in specific managerial decision-making contexts.
  • 5 Analyse issues raised by applying principles of management accounting in the manufacturing and service sectors.

Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.

Textbooks needed

Textbooks can change. We recommend you wait until at least seven weeks before the semester starts to buy your textbooks.

Compulsory

Horngren's Cost Accounting

Author
Datar and Rajan
ISBN
9781292463063
Edition
18TH EDITION
Publisher
Pearson
Notes
This book to be used from Semester 2 2026 onwards

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