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Financial & Performance Management (MGMT90041)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
November
Email: ent-scm-fbe@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject provides the financial analysis and other methods that managers need, in order to lead organisations, monitor and control operations and allocate resources. It also provides an understanding of specific non-financial measures and metrics associated with long-term sustainability and business success.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should:
- Be able to interpret financial measures and ratios as performance metrics
- Be able to develop and use a variety of financial measures for managerial control purposes
- Be familiar with accounting terms and language, and key issues associated with the financial management of organisations
- Be able to develop and interpret key financial indicators of performance and associate these with a firm’s business strategies and operating and orientation
- Be able to manage financial performance factors within organisations in a variety of sectors of an economy
- Understand a number of non-financial performance management systems and methods, such as balanced scorecard methods and sustainable development methods and measures.
- Know the strategic success factors associated with the longer term performance of business organisations
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject students should have enhanced their skills in:
- Ethical behaviour in leadership and organisations
- Analysis and problem solving
- Capacity for intellectual curiosity, creativity and independent thought
- Communication of key ideas and theories within the discipline areas
- Capacity for effective teamwork and collaboration
- Information retrieval and application in relation to practical problems.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Entry into the Master of Enterprise or the Master of Supply Chain Management.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Take-home exam, due on the Tuesday after the delivery (20%)
- 1,500 word assignment, due four weeks after the delivery (30%)
- 3,000 word field project, due eight weeks after the delivery (50%).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- November
Principal coordinator Nasser A. Spear Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 20 hours of seminars taught intensively over 5 days 2 x 3 hour group case analysis sessions (held on two evenings from 6-9pm during the intensive week) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 November 2017 to 1 December 2017 Last self-enrol date 28 November 2017 Census date 15 December 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 12 January 2018 Assessment period ends 9 February 2018 November contact information
Email: ent-scm-fbe@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
Estimated total time commitment of 170 hours per semester
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Last updated: 3 November 2022