The MBC information booklet - RMIT University
The MBC information booklet - RMIT University
The MBC information booklet - RMIT University
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Chapter 12: Vocational Electives<br />
12.1.14 COSC1300—<br />
Web Servers<br />
and Web<br />
Technology<br />
12.2 Business electives<br />
12.2.1 ACCT2127—<br />
Accounting for<br />
Management<br />
Decisions<br />
12.2.2 ECON1113—<br />
Economic<br />
Analysis for<br />
Business<br />
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Course Description<br />
This course introduces you to the role of a Web server administrator. To that end, it<br />
teaches you about the World Wide Web; networking and the Internet; the hypertext<br />
transfer protocol (HTTP) and other related protocols; Web server performance; Web<br />
server security issues, and Web caching. You will be given tasks required of a Web<br />
server administrator, including installing and configuring the Apache 2.0 Web server.<br />
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities<br />
• Unix Essentials / UNIX induction session (held during Weeks 0,1 and 2 of<br />
semester. Check CSIT Orientation web page for details at http://www.rmit.edu.au/<br />
csit.)<br />
For more <strong>information</strong> on the course, go to www.rmit.edu.au/courses2006/004318.<br />
Course Description<br />
Accounting for Management Decisions is intended to provide post-graduate, nonaccounting<br />
students with a study of the accounting context that forms the basis of all<br />
management decisions including short term operational and long term strategic<br />
decisions. <strong>The</strong> importance of accounting <strong>information</strong> in the overall business environment<br />
in which the organization operates, both internal and external, is emphasised. To this<br />
end the course presents an examination of accounting <strong>information</strong> covering introductory<br />
concepts, principles and practices relating to financial accounting and managerial<br />
accounting.<br />
This course is specifically aimed at students with little or no prior knowledge in<br />
accounting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> major topics covered are:<br />
• Business decision-making and Accounting<br />
• Types of Business Structures<br />
• Financial Position<br />
• Financial Performance<br />
• Reporting Cash Flows<br />
• Financial Ratio Analysis<br />
• Managing Working Capital<br />
• Cost, Volume, Profit<br />
• Full Costing<br />
• Budgeting<br />
• Capital Investment Decisions<br />
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities<br />
• An undergraduate degree, or its equivalent<br />
For more <strong>information</strong> on the course, go to www.rmit.edu.au/courses2006/034427.<br />
Course Description<br />
This course is designed to give students an understanding of economic concepts and<br />
how to apply them in “real world” situations. This course aims to introduce students to:<br />
• Factors that influence the behaviour of firms and consumers and the impact of such<br />
behaviour on industry performance.<br />
• Models of pricing and output decisions as well as the non-pricing behaviour of firms<br />
with varying degrees of market power.<br />
• Necessary conditions to achieve the desired economic outcomes in markets and<br />
also to provide a basis for understanding and evaluating the real world market<br />
strategies of firms.<br />
• Necessary skills needed to understand aspects of the Australian macroeconomy.