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Public service organizations (PSOs) deliver public services locally, nationally and internationally. This course covers their governance and management irrespective of whether the organisations in question are situated in the public, private, or third sectors. The course is especially interesting for examining PSOs in the context of various challenges, including recovering from natural disasters, and ambiguous public expectations. Curriculum content ranges from micro level activities of street level bureaucrats and volunteers to macro-level activities of multi-lateral organisations. The learning activities are based on students being responsible for working with materials, analysing them, inducing ideas and reflecting on the knowledge and skills they are learning.
Having engaged in learning during the course, students will be able to exemplify and discuss with some critical awareness:* The nature and scope of public management and governanace in several service and institutional contexts, including how accounting and finance figure in the contexts in question* Relevant practices (e.g. governance, planning and budgeting, performance measurement and management, transparency and accountability, evaluation) in such contexts* Skills inherent in group working and group project outcomes (including communication, negotiating, coordinating, presenting, other inter-personal skills entailed in accounting practice), and questioning and evaluating the work of other individuals and groups.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Any 75 points from ACCT, ECON, EURA, EURO, FINC, INFO, MGMT, MKTG, POLS, LAWS206. At least 45 of these points must be at 200-level.
ACIS316, AFIS316, AFIS516, POLS316
ACIS316, and AFIS316
Keith Dixon
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Domestic fee $790.00
International fee $3,350.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .