MN22163: Intermediate accounting for managers
[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRG 30%, EXCB 70% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Closed-book written examination (EXCB 70% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
- Investment decision in a company of your choice (CWRG 30% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of the unit, students will:
- Carry out financial statement analysis and evaluate its usefulness.
- Understand the use of accounting information in decision making
- Appreciate the accounting information needs of managers and the use of budgeting and control.
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| Synopsis: | Develop a critical understanding of key decisions managers need to take based on accounting information. You'll advance your knowledge of how accounting can help in financial decision making and explore decisions using: financial statements, costing decisions, pricing decisions, operating decisions. You will also advance your knowledge on budgeting and control.
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| Content: | Financial statement analysis
Develop costing techniques
Pricing decisions
Operating decisions
Budgeting and control
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| Course availability: |
MN22163 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-ANB12 : BSc(Hons) Business (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB13 : BSc(Hons) International Management with year abroad (Year 2)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB15 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with work placement (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB14 : BSc(Hons) Management with work placement (Year 2)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AKB50 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with year abroad (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB51 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with year abroad (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB52 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with year abroad (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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