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Management Talk 1: Strategic Cost Accounting

Niveau

1.Semester Master: 1. Study cycle

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The students:
• can apply modern topics and solution approaches within strategic cost management, in particular contribution margin accounting, target costing and activity-based costing
• understand the interdisciplinary nature of restructuring and transformation

Prerequisites for the course

1. Semester: no information

Course content

The Management Talk course aims at inviting guest professors from Austria and abroad (partner network FH Kufstein Tirol) on the subject areas of transformation and turnaround management, with special consideration for international standards.

• Margin cost accounting
• Target costing
• Activity-based costing

Recommended specialist literature

Bragg, S. M. (201) Cost accounting: A decision-making guide, Victoria.
Exler, M. & Situm M. (Hrsg.) (2019) Restrukturierungs- und Turnaroundmanagement: Strategien, Erfolgsfaktoren und Best Practice für die Transformation, Berlin.
von Leoprechting, G. (Hrsg.) (2018) Unternehmenssanierung: Krisenberatung, Branchenbesonderheiten, Checklisten, Herne.
Obermaier, R., Hrsg. (2016) Industrie 4.0 als unternehmerische Gestaltungsaufgabe: Betriebswirtschaftliche, technische und rechtliche Herausforderungen, Wiesbaden.

Assessment methods and criteria

Final presentation

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

2

Share of e-learning in %

0

Semester hours per week

1.0

Planned teaching and learning method

• The course, which is mostly dialog-oriented, usually consists of the triad of practical relevance, academic structuring, and the independent development of integrative case studies from immediate professional and consulting practice.

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

1

Name of lecturer

Parvinder Arora

Academic year

Key figure of the course/module

1

Type of course/module

integrated lecture

Type of course

Compulsory

Internship(s)

none