Delivery Guidance
A range of learning and teaching methods can be employed including lectures, directed readings, case studies, group discussions and presentations.
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
| Learning Outcomes:To achieve this unit a learner must: | Assessment Criteria: Assessment of these outcomes demonstrates a learner can: |
| 1. Be able to identify the characteristics of management control systems |
1.1 Explain the evolutions of control systems in an organisation 1.2 Identify organisational control systems for effective organisational performance 1.3 Explain the importance of accounting and budgeting systems functions to influence human behaviour 1.4 Identify leadership as a method of control. |
| 2. Be able to evaluate management control systems for strategic planning and development in an organisation |
2.1 Assess core control systems in an organisation 2.2 Identify the relationship between planning and control 2.3 Evaluate the contingency framework for strategic planning and development |
| 3. Be able to evaluate the controls systems in an organisation |
3.1 Evaluate the use of project management tools in an organisation 3.2 Assess the nature of control systems in a small business 3.3 Assess the process of discovering strategic core competence in a small business 3.4 Evaluate the use of management control systems |