MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING COURSE ASSESSMENT 1
Management Accounting Module
Coordinator: Dr. Danture Wickramasinghe
Assignments and Examination
Assignment 1 (individual assignment)
This will involve the analysis of a Harvard Business School case study from the case of book of 11 cases. This is an individually prepared piece of work, about 2000 words in length where we expect you to tease out the key managerial points from the case and choose a route to take the business forward and improve it. As you see above, this will count 25% of the total marks of the module.
In the first part of your work, you must highlight the key managerial issues and use management accounting tools and data to substantiate them. In the second part of the work, you must use your management accounting knowledge to provide necessary observations and remarks towards taking the business forward and improve its processes and outcomes.
Assessment of students' perception towards developing a course in environmental accounting
Document Information: Title: Assessment of students' perception towards developing a course in environmental accounting
Author(s): Niladri Das, (Department of Management Studies, ISM University, Dhanbad, India), Mitali Sen, (Department of Management Studies, ISM University, Dhanbad, India), J.K. Pattanayak, (Department of Management Studies, ISM University, Dhanbad, India)
Citation: Niladri Das, Mitali Sen, J.K. Pattanayak, (2008) "Assessment of students' perception towards developing a course in environmental accounting", International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, Vol. 16 Iss: 2, pp.122 - 139
Keywords: Accounting, Environmental studies, Students
Article type: Research paper
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the students' perception about the importance of incorporating environmental reporting practices, standards, and other issues in Management Accounting course.
Design/methodology/approach – Environmental issues provide a unique, timely, and important focus for developing a course in Indian management pedagogy, which shall help in demonstrating the usefulness of environmental accounting information in supporting corporate environmental strategies while assessing environmental performance. Assessment measurements that may capture the impact of reformed academic programs are necessary to judge the success and failure of management education reforms. This paper carries out such an assessment process by offering a course on environmental accounting as an intervention, to a sample of 28 management students enrolled in a higher educational institution in India imparting management education. A questionnaire is administered to these students before and after the intervention in order to understand the difference of their perception level.
Findings – The results suggests a significant difference in the perception level of students about the utility of incorporating environmental reporting practices in Management Accounting course before and after the administration of the reformed program.
Originality/value –http://www.51lunwen.org/enterprise/2012/0127/lw201201271743205579.html The paper is unique in its attempt to understand the Indian management students' perception of knowledge and usefulness with environmental accounting in their regular course, from which a more detailed evaluation can be derived. Further work based on this preliminary finding may be used to develop a proposed environmental accounting course framework for management students in India.
