Cost Accounting (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

Dear students,

As requested by ISEG’s President, here is some information regarding the Cost Accounting Exams.

More detailed information regarding each part of the exam, their duration and the breaks in between will be provided before the exam.

1. The continuous evaluation grades (cases and class participation) will be available before the exam.
2. As communicated in March, the components of the regular period (epoca normal) evaluation are the following: 20% cases, 10% class participation, 70% regular period exam.
3. The Cost Accounting exams were designed, in terms of questions and time, for a closed book (sem consulta) exam.
4. However, given the special circumstances of a remote exam, and to assure a fairness among all students, the Cost Accounting Team decided to have an open book (com consulta) exam.
5. However, we alert all students that the time available for the exam is for a closed book exam. Thus, students will not have much time to “study” their class materials during the exam.
6. Because we did not have the midterm, the regular period exam will evaluate all chapters of the program, just like the repeat period exam.
7. The exams will be done in Aquila with the video-invigilation in MS Teams.
8. All parts of the exam will be done directly in Aquila, using the function of “fichas”.
9. Students must be in a session in MS Teams during the exam and have their cameras switch on during the whole time of the exam. If a student does not have a camera in his/her computer, he/she can use the camera of the mobile phone and access MS Teams via mobile phone.
10. In case a student does not have the camera switch on during the exam, he/she will be subject to a oral exam.
11. The exam will have 3 to 4 different parts (fichas). Each part will be submitted autonomously, according to the timeline specified in the beginning of each part (between 15 and 10 minutes). The objective is to mitigate the problems of submission that sometimes students face in Aquila.
12. There will be a break, 5 to 15 minutes, between each part. This break will be clearly specified in the exam.
13. The exam will be composed of multiple choice questions (50 to 100 points out of 200 points) and open questions (remaining points) that will be responded directly in text boxes in Aquila. We alert students for the need to answer directly in Aquila and not in paper because we will not accept photos of answers written in paper. Additionaly you should optimize your time and using it for solving the questions in Aquila and not for solving them in paper and then copying them to Aquila. If needed, you can always edit your answer.
14. According to the rules set by ISEG, students who miss some parts of the evaluation and want that part to count, will be subject to an oral exam regarding that part that is missing.
15. All students with a final grade above 17 will be subject to an oral exam
16. Students that in “Improvement of Grade” Exam achieve a grade higher than 14 valores will be subject to an oral exam.
17. The oral exams will obey to the rules set by ISEG (MS Teams with camera on or physically at ISEG) and in the dates defined for those oral exams.

Good study and Good exams!

The Cost Accounting Team