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2020/2021  KAN-CSCBO1094U  Financial and Managerial Accounting

English Title
Financial and Managerial Accounting

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Third Quarter
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Social Sciences
Course coordinator
  • Gareth Garvey - Department of Accounting (AA)
  • Gareth Garvey - Department of Accounting (AA)
Main academic disciplines
  • Managerial economics
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Accounting
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 14-04-2021

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Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to
  • Read, understand and interpret a financial accounting statement and the use of financial ratios. The student should be able to understand how the reporting might be affected by a particular (creative) business.
  • Understand the various elements of a management control system (role, scope, drawbacks, implementation etc.) and how these systems create value for the companies and their stakeholders.
  • Understand the variety of cost concepts to be applied in a management control system
  • Analyze the nature of a business and outline main features of an appropriate control system.
Examination
Financial and Managerial Accounting:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Please see text below
Since the exam is time limited, 4 hours, there is no max. to the amount of pages.
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Spring
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take examination will be held as an oral examination instead.
Description of the exam procedure

This exam is a four hour written take home exam.

At the exam, the student must demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of topics, theories, methods and models that have been dealt with during the course.
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

The course covers the basic models of financial accounting and management accounting. The course will give an understanding of the basic elements of the generic financial accounting model that all companies must abide to in any given country and subsequently deal with those issues that are of specific interest to ‘creative businesses’. The course will also deal with the management control system which oftentimes consists of a multitude of subsystems such as a cost management system, a budgeting system, a project control system, a cash flow system and a more general performance measurement system. Again the course will present the generic models and subsequently deal with how these systems are affected – in their implementation – by the ‘creative business’ context.
Description of the teaching methods
Teaching takes place mainly in large classes and consists of a mixture of dialog-based lectures, presentations, discussions and assignments/cases. The cases are drawn from businesses across the creative industries to enable to student to apply the general analytical techniques and tools in the context of specific creative businesses. The students are encouraged to analyse the cases collaboratively and to deliver the assignments in groups.
Introductory Lectures and some other lectures are also made available in video format.
Feedback during the teaching period
Written feedback is given via Canvas on all assignment case questions submitted by the due dates. This can be supplemented with oral feedback, particularly for group submissions.
Student workload
Course activities (including preparation) 90 hours
Exam (including exam preparation) 116 hours
Expected literature

Please note that the literature list is guiding

Accounting for Managers - latest edition - Paul M Collier but older editions from the 3rd onwards can be used. 

 

Bang& Olufsen Annual Report latest published

Egmont Foundation Annual Reports 2008 and 2009

 

Cases from earlier year's exams will be used in teaching and assignments

 

Transforming the balanced scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management -Robert S. Kaplan and David S. Norton. Accounting Horizons Volume 15 No1
Last updated on 14-04-2021