1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

EF615 Introduction to Accounting and
Finance
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
~ssesskent: a combination of personal assignments, group
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management.
Objectives and content
An introductory course giving: mastery of basic principles of
accounting and double entry bookkeeping to obtain trial
balances and produce profit and loss statements, balance sheets
and funds statements; understanding of financial mathematics
and ability to apply spreadsheets to financial modelling, forecast
financial requirements and to evaluate investments and
businesses.
Text books
Gaffikin, M. et al. Principles ofAccounting. 3rd Aust. edn, Sydney,
Harcoun Brace Jovanovich, 1993
Van Horne, J. et al. Financial Mmugement C Policy in Australia.
3rd edn, Sydney, Prentice Hall, 1990
EF616 Management Fundamentals
-. 6 3 hoursper week Hawthorn Prequisite: nil
Assessment: a combination of personal assignments, group
t, assignments, class participation and/or exam.
. A first year compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
" Management.
Objectives and content
An introductory study of industrial development and the
growth of managerial functions leading to an understanding
of the complexities of managing an enterprise in the business
world of today. The importance of innovation and
entrepreneurship is stressed.
As with other core subjects within the course, the study will
integrate key elements - financial, human and organisational
- of management.
It includes a general introduction to management theories,
to fundamentals of finance, to human and organisational
aspects of management and to fundamental legal concepts of
organisation.
Recommended reading
Gaffikin, M. Principles of Accounting. 3rd edn, Sydney, Harcoun
Brace Jovanovich, 1993
Robbins, S.P. Orgrtnisational Behaviour. 6th edn, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1993
EF617 Project and Asset Management
2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: Nil
~ssessrnent: a combination of assignments, groilp
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
An elective subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management.
Objectives and Content
An introductory course addressing the requirements of
project, life cycle and asset management. Considerations
include: project initiation, implementation and termination;
financial and legal requirements; life cycle costing; plant
procurement, operation, reliability, maintenance, update
and disposal.
EF618 Management Practices
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: EF616
Management Fundamentals Assessment: a combination of
personal assignments, group assignments, class participation
and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management.
Objectives and Content
An extending course addressing the practice of management
through the development of business strategies (including
innovation and entrepreneurial aspects), and their impact on
marketing, human, quality, operational, legal and financial
faces of an enterprise and its operations.
EF620 Human Aspects
3 hours per week Hawthorn Pre~uisite: nil
~ssessment: a combination of pers&al assignments, group
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management.
Objectives and content
This subject is designed to build upon the work of the
introductory work in the first semester and treat the
material with more depth and practicality.
Topics covered include: theoretical base interpersonal
relationship and individual development; individual
differences, personality theory, value and value systems,
group dynamics, - role theory, leadership intergroup
competition, intepersonal communication, perception,
thinking processes and memory. Business politics. Human
resources management: recruitment, selection and training.
Aptitude testing. Management development and personnel
appraisal systems. Wage and salary structures, benefits and
financial reward schemes.
Performance factors motivation, job satisfaction, morale,
management of conflict, organisation structures and their
effects on behaviour, effecting change in the organisation.
Industrial relations practical industrial relations for
supervisors and managers.
EF623 Marketing
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: a combination of personal assignments, group
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management.
Objectives and content
This subject addresses the skills necessary to evaluate the
broad marketing needs and vulnerabilities of private and