University of Technology SydneyHandbook 2006

22421 Management Decisions and Control

6cp
Requisite(s): 22321 Cost Management Systems OR 223210 Cost Management Systems
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Undergraduate

This subject introduces the use of management accounting information to support managerial decisions and control various aspects of an organisation. It emphasises decision and control issues in a contemporary environment and introduces appropriate decision and control concepts, techniques and skills such as short- and long-term operational decisions, target costing and life-cycle costing, inventory management and just-in-time, responsibility accounting systems, transfer pricing, performance evaluation systems, and the behavioural impacts of management control systems. It also emphasises the ways in which accounting information can be used to understand and make decisions about the operational and strategic management of an organisation, and to control the implementation and ongoing management of such decisions.


For detailed information, see the full subject description at:
http://www.business.uts.edu.au/courses/subject/syllabus/22421.pdf

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus
Spring semester, Kuring-gai campus
Autumn semester, Kuala Lumpur
Spring semester, Kuala Lumpur

Fee information

2006 contribution for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students: $872.38
2006 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,220.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
Note: The above fees are applicable in 2006 for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported and domestic fee-paying undergraduate students only. Pre-2005 Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students webpage.
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth supported places, and not all subjects are available to Commonwealth supported students. Other students (such as postgraduate students and international students) should refer to the Fees webpage.

Access conditions

Note: The requisite information presented in this subject description covers only academic requisites. Full details of all enforced rules, covering both academic and admission requisites, are available at Access conditions and My Student Admin.