This module provides students with core skills relating to the use of financial and other information for making decisions and controlling the operations of an organisation. The module introduces students to the core accounting techniques that can underpin and inform decisions and allow for control processes to operate. Using ideas from strategic management accounting the module extends this to show how accounting and other information can be used together to improve business decision making. The module uses examples of typical decisions as exemplars and develops students’ analytic and decision making skills as they work to develop recommendations based on cases. The module will build students’ skills in using analytic tools to manipulate information and to present information in ways understandable to potential users.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
Explain the main concepts of management accounting and business analytics and the context in which they operate.
Apply the basic concepts, techniques and practices of business analytics and management accounting, to solve structured problems in managing organisations.
Compare the alternative approaches and theories of management accounting.
Discuss the use of management accounting and other information in organisational management and the strengths of varying approaches.
Identify and apply a range of analytical techniques to business cases.
Assessment
32181-01 : Group Case Study : Group Assessment - Coursework (50%)
32181-02 : 2 hr Exam : Exam (Centrally Timetabled) - Written Unseen (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment: Group Case Study Report, 2000 words (50%) 2-hour written examination (50%)
