Module manager: Jessica Johnson
Email: j.c.johnson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2017/18
LUBS1915 Introduction to Financial Accounting AND LUBS1925 Introduction to Management Accounting OR LUBS1235 Introductory Financial Accounting AND LUBS1245 Introductory Management Accounting OR LUBS1245 Introductory Management Accounting AND LUBS1225 Accounting for Managers
| LUBS2035 | Finance for Small Business |
This module is approved as a discovery module
The module requires you to be able to confidently use management accounting techniques and approaches in order to provide useful information for management for the purposes of planning, decision-making and control. Pre-requisite modules are Level 1 Financial Accounting and Level 1 Management Accounting.
This module aims to provide students with a critical appreciation of the theoretical role and purposes of management accounting and the relationship between management accounting information and organisational decision-making.
On completion of the modules students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of:
- the more advanced concepts and techniques of management accounting
- how management accounting information may be used for the purposes of planning, decision-making, performance measurement and control within organisations, in order to further the organisation's strategic objectives
- the roles of management accounting and its behavioural and organisational contexts
Transferable:
- Extract relevant information from structured and unstructured scenarios and data in order to identify problems and define solutions
Subject specific:
- Apply advanced concepts and techniques of management accounting to a variety of situations in order to solve practical problems
- Competently apply numerical skills to manipulate and interrogate financial and other numerical data
Indicative content:
The syllabus provides coverage of some of the more advanced techniques of management accounting and includes costing methods, relevant costs for decision-making, cost-volume-profit analysis, pricing, standard costing and variance analysis. The syllabus also includes concepts and theories underpinning current management accounting practices, including cost management, the budgetary process, strategic management and performance measurement.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 22 | 2 | 44 |
| Seminar | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Private study hours | 148 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 52 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
- Formative feedback will be provided to students in class discussions and as they work through practical exercises to test their understanding of module material.
- Feedback will also be provided by means of allowing students to undertake a range of MCQs during Semester 2 of the module.
- Students can also obtain feedback on a one-to-one basis from the module leader outside the class setting.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 3.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100 | |
Resit will be 100% by exam.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 2/27/2018
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