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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 />

64<br />

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.

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