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This course is designed to provide students with an appreciation of the wider organisational and societal context within which management accounting operates. Developments in management accounting theory and practice and current research themes will be explored.

10 x 2 hours of lectures

6x1-hour tutorial sessions

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Normally a grade D3 or above in Management Accounting 2, or equivalent.

Management Accounting & Organisational Behaviour (superseded)

2 Individual essays (50% each)

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

The aims of this course are to:

1. Offer an inspiring framework that articulates how management accounting operates in a wider organisational and societal context; and

2. Provide the students with the opportunity to develop confidence to debate the developments in management accounting theory and practice as well as ensuing research themes on the roles of management accounting in organisations and society which supplement the mainstream management accounting knowledge.

By the end of the course, all students should be able to:

1. Discuss organisational, economic, political, and institutional roles that management accounting plays in modern societies

2. Theoretically interpret those management accounting roles in relation to historical developments of modern societies.

3. Apply alternative interpretations of the development of management accounting techniques and their diverse practices based on alternative social theories.

4. Explain how management accounting embeds in contemporary governance and regulatory arrangements within and out with commercial organisations.

5. Explain how management accounting embeds in contemporary cultural-political-economic transformations such as neoliberalisation, globalisation, financialisaton, digitalisation and virtualisation.

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