Strategic Performance Management (ACCT90010)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville) and Online
Please refer to the return to campus page for more information on these delivery modes and students who can enrol in each mode based on their location.
About this subject
Contact information
Semester 1
Semester 2
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Online Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
The subject focuses on the role of managerial accounting information in strategic performance management. The subject explores the issues around goal setting, the role of budgets in performance management, performance measurement and evaluation, incentives, motivation and compensation, strategy implementation and the role of control systems.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Explain the role performance measurement and control systems play in planning and controlling organisational activities to a significant level of depth
- Identify the elements that constitute effective performance measurement and control systems
- Describe the behavioural implications of different types of performance measurement and control systems in different organisational contexts to a significant level of depth
- Analyse control system attributes in realistic organisational settings, and recommend improvements to existing control systems
- Explain the notion of "responsibility accounting"
- Analyse the link between organisational structure, strategy and planning and control systems
- Analyse and review performance within an organisation
- Identify potential problems with the use of traditional performance measurement systems;
- Describe the current performance measurement trends in, and their suitability to, organisations; and the advantages and disadvantages of these trends
- Explain how rewards are used to influence behaviour
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:
- Critical thinking, specifically in relation to the appropriateness of different performance measurement and control systems for the effective planning and control of organisational activities
- Evaluation, analysis and interpretation of case-based information
- Problem solving skills, specifically in relation to solving performance measurement and behavioural problems in different organisational contexts
- Application of techniques to particular performance measurement and behavioural problems
- Application of theory and analysis to real-world contexts
- Oral and written communication, particularly in relation to the articulation of responses
- Collaborative learning and team work
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCT90009 | Strategic Cost Management |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
OR
Equivalent
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
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Mid-semester test (1 hour plus 15 mins reading time)
| Mid semester | 15% |
Group assignment (normally in groups of 2 -5 students)
| Late in the teaching period | 25% |
End-of-semester examination (3 hours plus 15 mins reading time)
| During the examination period | 60% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Albie Brooks Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours, comprised of one 90 minute lecture and one 90 minute seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery
Principal coordinator Albie Brooks Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprised of one 90 minute lecture and one 90 minute seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Management (Accounting) Course Master of Management (Accounting and Finance) - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 3 November 2022