ACCT332-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Advanced Management Accounting

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Develops advanced understanding of the application of management accounting to complex problems. Explores issues in strategic management, costing systems, control systems and performance management. Builds communication, critical thinking and managerial skills.

ACCT332 aims to provide students with an advanced understanding of the application of management accounting to complex problems; and issues in strategic management, costing systems, control systems and performance management. It also aims to build students’ communication, critical thinking and managerial skills.  The case study method is utilised to develop students understanding of management accounting and their generic skills.  The topics covered in ACCT332 includes: Strategy; Organisational structure and transfer pricing; Planning and management control; Performance measurement and compensation; Value chain issues for suppliers, customers and competitors; Advanced costing issues; and The role and destiny of the management accountant.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss, apply and, where appropriate, critique management accounting theory and practice,
including:
   a. Strategy and strategic management
   b. Advanced cost and operations management
   c. Value chain analysis and strategic management accounting
   d. Lean, quality and constraint management
   e. Organisational structure and transfer pricing
   f. Planning and budgeting including strategic investment decisions
   g. Performance management including incentive schemes
   h. Control and risk management
   i. Sustainability management accounting
2. Communicate orally and in writing in a manner consistent with a business professional.
3. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems analytically.

University Graduate Attributes

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.

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.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ACIS332, AFIS332, AFIS322, AFIS522

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00 C2 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00 Psychology - Sociology 411
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 Jack Erskine 315
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00 Jack Erskine 121
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Thursday 12:00 - 13:00 Ernest Rutherford 225
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
05 Friday 09:00 - 10:00 Link 309 Lecture Theatre
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
06 Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 A7
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
07 Thursday 09:00 - 10:00 E12
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
08 Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00 Psychology - Sociology 411
21 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Examinations, Quizzes and Formal Tests

Test A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 19:00 - 21:00 Jack Erskine 001 Computer Lab
15 Sep - 21 Sep
02 Monday 19:00 - 21:00 Jack Erskine 010 Computer Lab
15 Sep - 21 Sep
03 Monday 19:00 - 21:00 Jack Erskine 248 Computer Lab
15 Sep - 21 Sep
04 Monday 19:00 - 21:00 Rata 342 CAD Lab
15 Sep - 21 Sep

Course Coordinator

Neil Crombie

Lecturer

Beverley Lord

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Tutorial Participation 10%
Team Presentation 15%
Team Case Report 25%
Mid-Semester Test 25%
Final Exam 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Eldenburg, Leslie G; Management Accounting ; 5th; John Wiley & Sons, 2025.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,363.00

* 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 on the departments and faculties page .

All ACCT332 Occurrences

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