Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide an advanced overview of current research and issues in the area of strategic management accounting and to develop students’ communication and teamwork skills.

Contents

The historical development of strategic management accounting. The relationship between strategy and management accounting systems. Innovative strategic management accounting techniques. The roles of management accounting in strategic control and decision making.

Further information on prerequisites and recommendations

This course is intended for M.Sc. students in Accounting. LASKA100 Intermediate Course in Management Accounting is a pre-requisite.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

1. Simons: Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 2000.

2. Hopper– Northcott–Scapens: Issues in Management Accounting, Pearson Education, 2007. (In part)

3. Articles specified by the lecturer.

Further information

This course is not necessarily offered every year.

Belongs to following study modules