Interactive Management Accounting

This interactive learning programme is for teaching introductory financial and management accounting. Designed for undergraduate and professional students, this computer-based package is capable of both stand-alone and network use. Features include: usable with a standard PC and Windows; widely tested by students and faculties; networkable for wide student access; equipped with both learning and testing modules, and a marker module for student tracking and management; and user-friendliness - no prior knowledge of computing or accounting is needed. A special feature includes an interactive mode for teaching backed by assignment mode, with individual feedback to each student user on performance. Artificial intelligence allows the software to generate and solve any number of new assignment or examination questions for students; students get a different question every time. An automatic warning facility, with mark collation and exception, reports to identify weak students.
Other features include: full subject coverage with an on-screen tutor backed up by a separate manual; allows individual access to supported interactive learning at any time; graded examples; and can be used for review or revision, or in lectures or tutorials. The package can be integrated throughout a professional or undergraduate introductory course in accounting, or used by students as a stand-alone tool for self-development and distance learning. The interative approach should also be suitable for non-accounting students and managers needing to acquire key concepts. The "Byzantium" modules include "Marginal Costing", "Absorption Costing", "Appraisal" and "Financial Accounting".