last week (2)

the last class of each week is AFF5100.
in last week, at the beginning of the class, it took about 10 mins to review the content of week 3. then talked about the organisational structure. there are three types of structures- functional structure, divisional struture, matrix structure. matrix structure is the most complex one, the teacher said in the hospital system, the matrix stucture is very common. and in the slide, it uses a phrase- span of, i do not know what's this mean... then go the content of textbook, in the chapter 6, it stated designing and evaluating control systems. and involoved in so many kinds of control, such as result control, action control. so far, i have not figure out what's the real meaning of these control, i need to "organise" these concepts later. then go to chapter 7. talked about some centres such as cost centre, profit centre, these were not new concepts, we learned those when we learned management accounting. this time, it focus on transfer pricing. then chapter 8, planing and budgeting. not so much content. in the second half of the class, it talked about the case- ARMCO Inc. because this is the first time we conducted the case study in this unit, the teacher just asked some easy questions, not too hard. but he said that he would ask some hard questions in the future case study. the case study is not important, in the fact, i can not recall so many about the case. and i could not understand what is "cost above measure". maybe search it later. the most remarkable thing is that the teacher introduced a new system- random system, that is a website, maybe random system. org or something, by using this system, the teacher can decide which student to answer the questions. the teacher claims that this system is fair for us. well, i do not know.
now, it is Thursday again, 10 hours later, i will have MGX 9230 again, well, wish me luck.