Strategic Management Accounting

The objective of MPAC613 is to prepare and critically evaluate strategic management accounting information for planning, budgeting, costing, controlling and decision-making by applying contemporary theory, research and practice.

15 points

MBAZ601

MPAC603

Business in Aotearoa New Zealand

This course will provide students with a general understanding of business in New Zealand including Maori organisations. Students will undertake applied research on a business in New Zealand. The course will cover a range of historic and contemporary issues.

15 points

MBAZ601, MBAZ604.

FIEC675, MFIN670

Cases in Financial and Management Accounting

This course provides students with an understanding of contemporary issues in financial and management accounting, and then undertake applied research on a business in New Zealand that is facing a specific issue in financial and/or management accounting. A representative of a local business will present the specific issue to the class and then the students - acting as professional consultants - will research possible solutions to the issue and present their findings to the representative. Students will be expected to apply concepts and theories in financial management to the business under study.

15 points

MPAC603, MBAZ604

Portfolio Management

The course focuses on building up the knowledge and the skills required for the construction and management of investment portfolio. The portfolios of assets such as stocks and bonds will be considered. The course provides the tools necessary to evaluate and critique the potential and realized performance of portfolio and investments and to the trade-off between risk and return.

15 points

MFIN601; AND MFIN602; AND MBAZ604

Financial Decision Making

The purpose of MFIN674 is to enable students to develop and apply advanced theoretical and technical skills of financial decision making. Students will be required to provide sound decisions to a range of real world financial problems and then evaluate those decisions against success criteria. Findings will be have to be presented in a way that is "client-ready" and accessible to a non-expert in financial management. Students will also achieve a Bloomberg certification as part of this course.

15 points

(1) MFIN601; (2) MFIN602; (3) MBAZ604