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ACCG330 Strategic Management Accounting Session 1, 2013
Assessment Guide
Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance
ASSESSMENT Assessed Coursework Assignment Class Participation Class Tests TOTAL 24% 20% 26% 30% 100%
The final grade will be determined after consideration of performance in all aspects of the course.
ASSESSED COURSEWORK (24%) Seminar work is vital in this unit and the assessment marks are designed to ensure that students work conscientiously and consistently throughout the session. Regular class attendance and assignment preparation are essential if satisfactory progress is to be made. Students are advised that prescribed readings are not designed to enable students to simply apply the text material in the topic area to the case. This “disconnect” between readings and tutorial cases is unsettling for many students but is a necessary consequence of moving to third year subjects. Increasingly students need to be weaned from situations where there is a great correspondence between the textbook problem and solution to more real life situations. To do well in this unit, students need to: (i) use their knowledge gained from previous units (both accounting and non-accounting); (ii) tailor the solution to the particular situation; and (iii) exercise judgement in trading-off various issues. Consequently, while there is a suggested answer to each case, students who make slightly different assumptions can come up with very reasonable answers, which may differ from suggested answers, and it is the power of your argument that is important. Assignments account for 24% of the final grade. The assignment questions will be provided in a separate handout. Weekly assignments will be collected and assessed randomly by tutors (at 4 out of the 12 seminars). Each assignment will be awarded a mark out of 8 with the three best marks counting towards the final grade (i.e. 24%). These assignments will be marked based on the content and accuracy of your
Assessment Guide
Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance
ASSESSMENT Assessed Coursework Assignment Class Participation Class Tests TOTAL 24% 20% 26% 30% 100%
The final grade will be determined after consideration of performance in all aspects of the course.
ASSESSED COURSEWORK (24%) Seminar work is vital in this unit and the assessment marks are designed to ensure that students work conscientiously and consistently throughout the session. Regular class attendance and assignment preparation are essential if satisfactory progress is to be made. Students are advised that prescribed readings are not designed to enable students to simply apply the text material in the topic area to the case. This “disconnect” between readings and tutorial cases is unsettling for many students but is a necessary consequence of moving to third year subjects. Increasingly students need to be weaned from situations where there is a great correspondence between the textbook problem and solution to more real life situations. To do well in this unit, students need to: (i) use their knowledge gained from previous units (both accounting and non-accounting); (ii) tailor the solution to the particular situation; and (iii) exercise judgement in trading-off various issues. Consequently, while there is a suggested answer to each case, students who make slightly different assumptions can come up with very reasonable answers, which may differ from suggested answers, and it is the power of your argument that is important. Assignments account for 24% of the final grade. The assignment questions will be provided in a separate handout. Weekly assignments will be collected and assessed randomly by tutors (at 4 out of the 12 seminars). Each assignment will be awarded a mark out of 8 with the three best marks counting towards the final grade (i.e. 24%). These assignments will be marked based on the content and accuracy of your