Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Brisbane - The Hotel School | ||
| Gold Coast | ||
| Melbourne | N/A | |
| Melbourne - The Hotel School | ||
| Online | ||
| Perth | N/A | |
| Sydney | N/A | |
| Sydney - The Hotel School |
Unit description
This unit introduces students to the fundamentals of financial and management accounting viewed from the perspective of the business manager. The focus is on critical evaluation of accounting information contained in financial statements and management accounting reports for use by managers to inform responsible decisions.
Unit content
Topic 1: Accounting in a business management context
Topic 2: The balance sheet
Topic 3: The income statement
Topic 4: Cash flow and other company financial statements
Topic 5: Financial statement analysis
Topic 6: Cost-volume-profit analysis and tactical decision-making
Topic 7: Full costing
Topic 8: Budgeting: The planning phase
Topic 9: Budgeting: The control phase
Topic 10: Financing the business
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | read and interpret financial statements for a business entity |
| 2 | analyse and critically evaluate business performance and position using information contained in financial statements |
| 3 | analyse business internal accounting information to evaluate working capital management performance of a business |
| 4 | from cost and revenue data, apply techniques in deciding upon alternative courses of action and implements budgets in decision-making for an organisation |
| 5 | choose and organise relevant financial information in deciding the appropriate financing strategy for a business. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- read and interpret financial statements for a business entity
- analyse and critically evaluate business performance and position using information contained in financial statements
- analyse business internal accounting information to evaluate working capital management performance of a business
- from cost and revenue data, apply techniques in deciding upon alternative courses of action and implements budgets in decision-making for an organisation
- choose and organise relevant financial information in deciding the appropriate financing strategy for a business.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
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