MAC3703 S2 LECTURE 1 : INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
Presenter: Zanele Ngeyane
Date: 5 August 2025
LECTURE OUTLINE
1. Module Responsible Lecturer
2. Important Contact Details
3. Module learning platform
4. Module Outline
5. Study Material
6. Assessments
7. Academic Dishonesty
1.Module Responsible Lecturer
• Miss Zanele Ngeyane
• Office number 22, first floor Simon Radipere Building, Unisa Main
Campus (Preller Street, Muckleneuk, Pretoria)
• Email address:
[email protected] 2. Important Contact Details
1. Module Content
• Module Responsible Lecturer (MRL): Ms Zanele Ngeyane
Email:
[email protected]• Module Administrator : Ms Bastina Dulamo (in the event that MRL is not available)
Email:
[email protected]Module email:
[email protected]2. College of Accounting Sciences (CAS) contact details:
• All enquiries – Email:
[email protected] Tel. : 012 429 4211
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• Undergraduate:
[email protected] Tel. : 012 441 5700
3. General Unisa contacts
• All student enquiries – centralised toll free number: 0800 00 1870
• myUnisa – Email:
[email protected] Tel: 012 429 3111
• myLife - Email:
[email protected]• Tel: 012 429 3111
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• Exams – Email:
[email protected] Tel: 012 429 4347
012 429 2254
3. Official learning platform
• myUnisa – mymodules
All interactions
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recordings
- Additional resources, etc.
4. Course overview
• Assumptions
- Prior knowledge of MAC2601 & MAC2602.
- Basic financial accounting and tax knowledge.
• Purpose
- Explain, describe and apply certain newer costing and management
accounting techniques that are suited to the modern business
environment.
- Discuss various project management principles and apply selected
tools and techniques.
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- Apply the International Accounting Standard 33 – Earnings Per Share
to different scenarios.
- Demonstrate awareness of recent developments in financial and non-
financial reporting.
• Outcomes
The module consists of 7 Key Outcomes and 15 Lessons. The proposed
schedule for the semester is as follows:
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Date Outcome Learning Unit number
12 August 2025 Key outcome 1: Business models and value creation 1&2
19 August 2025 Key Outcome 2: Managing people performance 3&4
26 August 2025 Key Outcome 2: Managing people performance 5, 6 & 7
02 September 2025 Key Outcome 3: Implementing organisational goals through project 8
management
09 September 2025 Key Outcome 3: Implementing organisational goals through project 9
management
16 September 2025 Key Outcome 3: Implementing organisational goals through project 10
management
23 September 2025 Key Outcome 4: Select costing, pricing, and performance measurement 11 & 12
techniques
30 September 2025 Key Outcome 5: Managing organisational performance 13
07 October 2025 Key Outcome 6: Earnings per share (IAS33 14
14 October 2025 Key Outcome 7: Integrated Reporting 15
21 October 2025 Revision
28 October 2025 Revision
5. Study material
• Prescribed book(s)
- CIMA Managing Performance (E2) Study Text
Author: Kaplan Publishing (2020 or more recent edition)
ISBN: 978-1-78740-194-5 or 978-1-78740-711-4 (printed); or 978-1-
78740-741-1 (e-Book)
• Other study material – tutorial 101
• Additional resource – tutorial 501
6. Assessments
• 2 Compulsory assessments, one MCQ (25%) – due date 11 September
2025 and one discussion-not all section to be marked (75%) – due
date 30 September = your year mark counting 20% towards your final
mark
• Must write and submit at least one to be admitted to the exam
• One examination
• Final Mark = 20% year mark plus 80% exam mark
• Obtain at least 40% in the exam for the year mark to count
6. Academic dishonesty
• Cheating ang Plagiarism, policy on the internet
• NB: To complete the course
• Register for the CAS workshop by 8 August 2025
THANK YOU AND ALL THE BEST!
