General provisions

The course is offered within the Bachelor's Programme in Business and Economics and as a single subject course. The course syllabus was approved by the board of the Department of Business Studies on delegation from the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Entry requirements

Completed 15 credits from Basic Courses A-level in Business Studies, and registered for another 15 credits at the same level.

Learning outcomes

The course aims to enable students to acquire knowledge and understanding of management accounting and control. By using the acquired knowledge students are expected to develop the ability to analyse, and communicate, phenomena related to the course content. This also implies the development of skills including the ability to place the subjects studied in different contexts over different time periods.

Learning Outcomes:

• The ability to analyse and critically discuss the reasons to and consequences of management accounting and control
• The ability to analyse and critically discuss the relationship between strategy development and the design, and use, of management accounting and control
• Obtaining knowledge and understanding of models and methods in management accounting and control
• Being able to distinguish between levels of analysis for different variables, as well as independent and dependent variables in the models of analysis for problems regarding management control
• To be able to design models of analysis and to operationalise relationships between variables
• Obtaining the ability to apply a range of models and methods in different contexts and in order to analyse an organisation's activities
• To identify and analyse problems and solutions in real-life situations
• Being able to communicate findings

Content

The course deals with control methods, control philosophies, responsibilities, production, logistical concepts, project planning, production processes, forecasting as well as human behaviour.

Instruction

The instruction takes the form of lectures and seminars.

Assessment

The course is continuously examined through written and oral presentations of individual and group based tasks and an individual written exam. The final grade of the course is determined after taking into consideration the different parts of the examination. Grading criteria will be presented in the study guide provided at the start of the course. The following grades will be used: VG (Pass with distinction), G (Pass), and U (Fail).

Uppsala University takes cheating and plagiarism seriously, and disciplinary action will be taken against any student suspected of being involved in any sort of cheating and/or plagiarism. The disciplinary actions take the form of warnings and limited suspensions.

Only completed courses can count toward a degree.

Transitional provisions

The course substitutes/overlaps among others Controlling 2FE618, Corprate Control 2FE957, Management Control 2FE204, 2FE208, Management Accounting 2FE252, 2FE212 and Management Accounting and Management Control 2FE254.