Topics will be drawn from

- Strategic management accounting and strategic planning and control
- Planning and Control
- Budgeting
- Types of budget
- Life-cycle costing
- Throughput accounting
- Environmental accounting
- Performance management and measurement
- Contemporary performance management and measurement frameworks
- Value-based management

The learning strategy for the module requires students to commit 300 learning hours, of this there will be 75 hours of class support and 225 hours of independent and self directed study.

Lectures/ Workshops/ Presentations /Tutorial
Student managed learning/ directed learning

Apart from the lecture each week, various other methods as mentioned above will be used as learning strategies.
There will be workshop and tutorial sessions, students will be required to discuss and present various topics of the module in the class. Students are expected to be able to structure their own work and to work relatively independently under the guidance of the module teaching staff.

Core Text
Aguinis, H (2012) Performance Management (3rd Edition)

Recommended
D. (2010)Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs Parmenter,
Proctor, R. (2009) Managerial Accounting for Business Decisions, 3rd ed., Harlow: Pearson Education Limited
Drury, C. (2008) Management and Cost Accounting, 7th ed., London: Cengage Learning EMEA
Armstrong, M. 2006. Performance management: key strategies and practical guidelines. 3rd ed. London: Kogan Page
Armstrong, M. and Baron, A. 2004. Managing performance: performance management in action. 2nd ed. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

The VLE (NETED)
The Internet
Word Processing software for use in the coursework
Printed and electronic journals.

Details - Learning outcomes 1,2,3 and 4:
Examination
Time Constraint Examination (TCA)

To pass this module student must obtain 40% marks.