Management Accounting - ACCTYS8417
Stream Summary
Faculty: COMM - UNSW Business School
School: School of Accounting
Contact: UNSW Business School Student Centre
Program: 8417 - Commerce (Extension)
Award(s):
Master of Commerce (Extension) (Specialisation)
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Stream Outline
Career opportunities are in accounting and financial management in the private and public sectors; working for organisations or government departments. Career progression after the appropriate experience would be: Management Accountant, Finance Manager, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Financial Director, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or Management Consultant.
This specialisation is for business and non-business graduates who wish to pursue a career in the exciting area of management accounting and be professionally recognised by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). If you have prior business studies, you will be able to substitute courses relevant to the CIMA syllabus for courses covered in your prior undergraduate studies. This will allow you to enrich your relevant knowledge and, possibly, reach a higher level of CIMA recognition. In particular, if you have an undergraduate accounting major, you should be able to cover all the CIMA levels other than the final level requiring work-based practical experience and a case study examination.
- 2 MCom core courses
- 3 Gateway courses - made up of designated specialist core course/s depending on the specialisation chosen
- 6 Specialisation courses
- 1 Capstone course
- 2 MCom core courses
- 3 Gateway courses - made up of designated specialist core course/s depending on the specialisation chosen
- 6 Specialisation courses
- 4 additional courses
- 1 Capstone course
Stream Structure
- ACCT5930 Financial Accounting (6 UOC)
- ECON5103 Business Economics (6 UOC)
- FINS5513 Investments & Portfolio Sel. (6 UOC)
- ACCT5955 Management Control Systems (6 UOC)
- COMM5030 Social Entre Practicum (6 UOC)
- FINS5514 Capital Budgeting&Fin Decision (6 UOC)
- INFS5978 Accounting Information Systems (6 UOC)
- MARK5700 Elements of Marketing (6 UOC)
- MGMT5601 Global Bus&Multinat Enterprise (6 UOC)
- MGMT5907 Human Resource Management (6 UOC)
ACCT5955 Management Control Systems in Contemporary Contexts, must be selected if students wish to be exempted from all the examinations for the Operational and Management Levels of the syllabus of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
If you choose to study the Master of Commerce (Extension) program 8417, you should choose the following extension stream to extend your knowledge of management accounting to the next level of the CIMA syllabus:
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Further Information
Students are advised to follow requirements according to the year they commenced. Please refer to previous editions of the Online Handbook for your program requirements.
Contact the UNSW Business School Student Centre for advice.
tel: + 61 2 9385 3189
location: Level 1, room 1028, Quadrangle Building
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