This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance, BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, BSc in Economics and Diploma in Accounting and Finance. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Available to students on?other undergraduate/Diploma programmes?with the permission of the BSc Programme Director.
This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance, BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, BSc in Economics and Diploma in Accounting and Finance. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Available to students on?other undergraduate/Diploma programmes?with the permission of the BSc Programme Director.
Teaching is delivered in two weekly 90-minute sessions over 10 weeks across Michaelmas Term. There is a reading week in Week 6. Depending on the state of the ongoing pandemic, some or all of the teaching on this course may be delivered using virtual means as an alternative to face-to-face teaching due to social-distancing or other pandemic-related restrictions that may need to be observed
The course makes extensive use of case studies. Students are expected to contribute to the case discussions by having read the case study and related materials in advance of the session and by participating in the discussion and offering their own analysis, views and/or perspectives on the issue at hand during the session.
AC311 is built around a textbook:?Merchant and Van der Stede?s Management Control Systems.? The text will be supplemented with some additional materials that will be made available via the Moodle virtual learning environment. Merchant K.A. & W. A. Van der Stede (2017), Management Control Systems (London: Financial Times/Prentice-Hall), 4th edition.
Project (25%) and take-home assessment (50%) in January. Essay (25%) in the MT. Further details of all aspects of assessment and coursework, as well as feedback, will be made available on Moodle nearer the scheduled start time of the course and will be updated as the course progresses with specific instructions, guidance, and feedback.