This module introduces the core concepts of management accounting and how it affects the business organisation. It enables students to perform and evaluate management accounting tools and concepts available to managers for financial decision making, and considers how these may be used in practice.
Module learning outcomes
Identify the key concepts underpinning management accounting
Understand the nature and purpose of a range of management accounting tools
Apply the use of management accounting tools to the evaluation of the operating environment
Indicative assessment
Task
% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
100
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
Task
% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
100
Module feedback
Module assessment reports to students are written by the module leader for all assessments (open and closed) and placed on the VLE after the Board of Examiners has received the module marks.
The timescale for the return of feedback will accord with TYMS policy
Indicative reading
McLaney, E. and Atrill, P. : Accounting - an Introduction, 7th edition. Prentice Hall