Program Overview

MBS539 - Accounting for Managers

Overview

To view overview information, please note that this unit provides an introduction to accounting for managers, covering topics such as the accounting environment, ethics, and the role of professional skill.

Offerings

The following offerings are available for this unit:

• DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2022-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJD
  • Location: Murdoch University Dubai, UAE
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2022
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: No
• DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2022-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSD
  • Location: Murdoch University Dubai, UAE
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2022
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: No
• MURDOCH-T1-EXT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: External
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T1-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-EXT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: External
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T3-EXT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T3
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: External
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T3-INT-2021-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T3
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Internal
  • Start year: 2021
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes

Requisites

Exclusion

The following units are excluded from this unit:

• MBS513: Accounting for Managers (4 cp)
• MBS5132: Accounting for Managers (3 cp)
• MBS5392: Accounting for Managers (3 cp)

Enrolment Rules

Enrolment in a graduate-level course is required. Students who have completed MBS513/MBS5132/MBS5392 Accounting for Managers may not enrol in MBS539 Accounting for Managers for credit.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes for this unit are:

1. Demonstrate basic understanding of the accounting environment, ethics, and the role of professional skill.
2. Explain the role of accounting information in the management planning and decision-making.
3. Understand basic accounting concepts and apply them to analyse and record business transactions.
4. Understand the principles of managing and reporting working capital.
5. Prepare basic financial statements and understand the relationship of the main financial statements.
6. Apply tools to analyse and interpret financial statements as well as understanding some of the issues facing the readers of financial statements.
7. Understand the role of accounting in sustainable business.
8. Understand the types of costs and revenues relevant to business decision-making.

Unit Content

The topics covered in this unit are:

1. Introduction to Business Accounting Forms of Business- legal and accounting aspects, Ethics and the Role of Professional Skill
2. Developing a Business Plan: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
3. Developing a Business Plan: Budgeting
4. The Accounting System: Concepts and Applications
5. Managing and Reporting Working Capital-cash, accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable
6. The Income Statement: Content, Use, and Ratio Analysis
7. The Balance Sheet: Content and Use and Analysis
8. Introduction to the Cash Flow Statement: Content, Use, and Analysis
9. Introduction to Short-Term Planning Decisions: Type of Costs and Revenues Relevant to Decision Making
10. Sustainable Business Objective

Unit Version, Start Date, and End Date

• Unit version: 31
• Version start date: 01/08/2022
• End date: 31/12/2022

Owning College and School

• Owning college: College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences (PRE 2023)
• Owning school: Business (PRE 2023)

Credit Points

This unit is worth 3 credit points.