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306-261 Accounting B11: Financial Accounting I

Credit points: 15.5

Coordinator: Phillip Cobbin.

Prerequisite: Accounting A2, or approved equivalent.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures, a 1-hour tutorial and a 1-hour workshop each week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• record financial data for companies;
• prepare company reports to comply with corporate reporting requirements;
• examine the influence of accounting standards on the theory and practice of accounting.

Content:

Topics include: company formation and dissolution, consolidated financial statements, external reporting, tax-effect accounting, reorganisation of capital and foreign currency translations. Particular attention to the practical implications of the Australian Accounting Standards, ASX Listing requirements and Corporations Law.

Assessment:

A final 3-hour examination (90 per cent); tutorial participation and exercises (10 per cent). Students must satisfactorily complete all areas of assessment.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 71)

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