Workshop information on advanced management accounting 2026 Autumn

Workshop information on advanced management accounting 2026 Autumn

Class A: surgical session: Sept 6; session 8 to 15: Sept 24 to Nov 19, 2026

Assignment Due Date: 9th November 2026 (Mon) 

Examination date: 3th December 2026 (Thu), 7-9pm (2 hours); answer 2 questions out of four. All questions involve a calculation task and an essay writing task.

Class B: surgical session: Sept 6; session 8 to 15: Oct 2 to Nov 20, 2026

Assignment Due Date: 9th November 2026 (Mon) 

Examination date: 3th December 2026 (Thu), 7-9pm (2 hours); answer 2 questions out of four. All questions involve a calculation task and an essay writing task.

Assessment

1. Course work / Individual assignment (50%)
2. Examination (50%)

Individual Assignment: 2500 words (50%)

This is an assignment related to Advanced Management Accounting. 

Further details are on Canvas and provided in a separate coursework document.

Due date : Monday 9th November 2026.  Please check notices for the exact time. 

*** some useful information for doing the assignment

1. A note on using Hong Kong annual reports for SWOT analysis (also study a vide on on SWOT analysis)

2.  A note on the Hong Kong IT infrastructure and corporate digitalization

3.  A note on the Hong Kong hospitality sector and the basic study information

4.  A note of using generative AI to produce a case study for SWOT/ BSC analysis: on The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH)

5.  On selecting balanced scorecard performance measures: on The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels

6. A suggested Part A assignment essay template prototype, with an essay title (offered by generative AI)

7. Conducting a case study with AI-augmented learning: an example 

8. A note on AI-augmented learning for students doing assignments.

          9. A note on the Socratic method of questioning for doing assignment.

 

Examination: 2 hours (50%) Questions will deal with numerical work illustrating techniques of management accounting with the questions also including interpretation or testing concepts and applications.  A choice of questions will be offered.  The best preparation for the examination is to follow the course and readings indicated and to undertake all of the questions set for tutorials and for practice. 

Examination date: Monday 3rd December 2026.  Please check notices for the exact time. 

Course info on canvas.

Exercise illustrative answer folder

eBook access information

Student can access the electronic copies of the book online via Hull’s digital library at: https://www.hull.ac.uk/choose-hull/study-at-hull/library using their own Hull student accounts, so they would be able to view the relevant chapters and exercises there.

 

The link for the e-book is as follow:

 

ProQuest Ebook Central - Book Details

Chapter (BHD&R)	Study scope (chapter contents & exercises): mentioned in the module study guide
Chapter 1  The manager and management accounting	Yes 1.12# 1.14 1.16
Chapter 2  An introduction to cost terms and purposes	Yes 2.15 2.16 SQF: S1
Chapter 3  Job costing	Yes 59-70
Chapter 4  Process costing
Chapter 5  Cost allocation	Yes 129-136
Chapter 6  Cost allocation- joint-cost situations
Chapter 7  Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods
Chapter 8  Cost-volume-profit analysis
Chapter 9  Determining how costs behave
Chapter 10  Relevant information for decision making
Chapter 11  Activity-based costing	Yes 11.11# 11.12# 11.13
Chapter 12  Pricing issues and customer profitability analysis	Yes 357-377 12.15 SQF 12.18 12.19 SQF 12.20 SQF 12.21 SQF: c5; c10; c14 (12.19); c13 (12.15); c15 (12.20); c9
Chapter 13  Capital investment decisions
Chapter 14  Motivation, budgeting and responsibility accounting	Yes 14.18 14.19
Chapter 15  Flexible budgets, variances and management control I
Chapter 16  Flexible budgets, variances and management control II
Chapter 17  Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects
Chapter 18  Control systems and transfer pricing	Yes 557-560 18.17 18.19# 18.21 SQF: f8
Chapter 19  Control systems and performance measurement	Yes 19.11 19.13# 19.16 19.18 SQF: f9
Chapter 20  Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality	Yes 623-626 626-646 636-646 20.11# 20.14# 20.17 20.19 20.20 20.21 SQF: Q5; q3; q4
Chapter 21  Accounting, time and efficiency	Yes 662-666 682-687 21.16 21.24 SQF: q7
Chapter 22  Emerging issues: digitalisation and sustainability	Yes 22.14 SQF: e2; e3

*** All the exercises of the 8th edition [mentioned in the module study guide] are the same of the 7th edition (same chapter number; same question number; except that for question 11.13, the year mentioned is different)

To review exercise answers for the more complicated questions, use the "formula:>trace precedents  & dependents function" of Excel to study the answers in worksheet form. [will provide worksheet form answers on SOUL, with a folder name of "additional answer worksheets"]

An illustration on question 11.13 (also learn this Excel function on Youtube).

D&T (8/9 editions): chapters mentioned in the module study guide

Chapter 1 (edition 8)	Introduction to management accounting
Chapter 2 (edition 8)	An introduction to cost terms and concepts
Chapter 5 (edition 8)	Pricing decisions & profitability analysis
Chapter 8 (edition 8)	Activity-based costing
Chapter 10 (edition 8)	Management control systems
Chapter 12 (edition 8)	Divisional financial performance measures
Chapter 13 (edition 8)	Target pricing in divisionalized companies
Chapter 14 (edition 8)	Strategic performance management
Chapter 15 (edition 8)	Strategic cost management and value creation
Chapter 16 (edition 8)	Challenges for the future
Chapter 17 (9 edition provided)	Sustainability and environmental management accounting

 

For your reference: table of content of edition 9 D&T

Part One: Introduction to Management and Cost Accounting
1. Introduction to management accounting
2. An introduction to cost terms and concepts

Part Two: Information for Decision-making
3. Cost–volume–profit analysis
4. Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making
5. Pricing decisions and profitability analysis
6. Capital investment decisions: appraisal methods

Part Three: Cost Assignment
7. Cost assignment
8. Activity-based costing

Part Four: Information for Planning, Control and Performance
Measurement
9. Management control systems
10. The budgeting process
11. Standard costing and variance analysis
12. Divisional financial performance measures
13. Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies

Part Five: Strategic Performance and Cost Management for Value Creation; digitalization, sustainability and the future of management accounting
14. Strategic performance management
15. Strategic cost management and value creation
16. Management accounting: contemporary technologies and data analytics
17. Sustainability and environmental management accounting
18. Challenges for the future

e-resources

1. A collection of notes on teaching topics
2. A collection of literature review notes on advanced management accounting articles (using chatpdf)
3. A useful generative AI application as a learning support tool.