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HI5017 Managerial Accounting Assignment - Holmes Institute, Australia

Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) - Students are required to develop their understanding of the types of management accounting information that assists managers in organisational planning and control purposes. You are to collect primary data and also critically evaluate the literature (using journal articles) to analyse the practical use of management accounting information by contemporary organisations, and their relevance to decision-making by managers and achievement of business goals.

Individual Assignment Specifications -

Assignment Task - You are required to collect primary data and conduct a literature search in this assignment.

Part A - Have a conversation with an Owner-Manager of a business in Australia or a Manager in an organisation such as a Bank, Retail Store, Restaurant, Hotel, Factory etc. Ask the Owner-Manager or the Manager the following questions:

i) Does the business collect and use cost information for planning and control purposes? How often?

ii) Who is responsible for the collection of cost information? Be as specific as possible.

iii) What type of cost information does the business collect? Provide examples incl. types of reports.

iv) How important does the Owner-Manager or the Manager believe cost information are to the Business's success? Explain.

Question - Write a summary of the results of the interview.

The content of the interview summary must include:

-date of the interview,

-the name and title of the person interviewed,

-name and location of the Business,

-type of Business (service, merchandising/retail, manufacturing) and a brief description of the goods/services provided by the Business, and

-responses to questions (i) - (iv) above.

Part B - Choose one peer-reviewed journal article (from any country) on the: Use of Cost Information in a real-life organisation (i.e. a case-based empirical study). The article should be published between 1990 - 2020.

Choose your article only after you have accessed and reviewed several relevant articles, and then choose the best article that will answer the questions below.

1. Based on your chosen journal article, briefly summarise the types of cost information and the use of cost information for planning and control purposes.

2. Based on your chosen journal article, did the Owner or Manager(s) in the study use similar cost information as discussed in Part A? Why or why not? Include examples in your answer from your journal article.

3. Based on your chosen journal article, how useful was the accounting information to the internal users (Owner or Manager(s)) in the organisation? Discuss with examples from your journal article.

4. Based on your literature findings and interview findings (from Part A), state two key lessons that would inform contemporary organisations about the practical use of cost information.

Assignment Structure - The report should include the following components:

a. Assignment cover page clearly stating your name and student number

b. Abstract (one paragraph)

c. Table of contents

d. A brief introduction or overview of what the report is about.

e. Body of the assignment with appropriate section headings

f. Conclusion

g. List of References (follow the Holmes Adapted Harvard Referencing guidelines on pg. 1-2)