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Teaching Aims
The School's primary teaching aim is to provide education
of the highest quality for students who wish to study for the accounting
and corporate governance majors of the Bachelor of Business degree.
Bachelor of Business (BBus) Degree
The Bachelor of Business (BBus) is offered by the Faculty
of Business, which comprises the Schools of Accounting & Corporate
Governance, Economics & Finance, Information Systems, Law and
Management. The School teaches units for all the majors offered
in the BBus and has primary responsibility for the following majors:
The Accounting and Corporate Governance majors are offered on all
of the University's campuses (Hobart, Launceston and Burnie) as
well as offshore in Malaysia.
Detailed information on the structure of the BBus degree, including
all the units offered, and the University's rules and regulations,
may be obtained from the Undergraduate Courses section of the University
Course
and Unit Handbook. Alternatively you may contact the Faculty
Office.
Bachelor of Business (Hons)
The Bachelor of Business (Honours) degree offered by the School
of Accounting and Corporate Governance provides students with the
opportunity to pursue a fourth year of advanced study in Accounting
and Corporate Governance.
Honours in accounting offers enormous benefits in terms of enhanced
career prospects, opportunities for postgraduate studies, and personal
development.
Detailed information on the structure of the BBus(Hons) degree,
including all of the units offered, and the University's rules and
regulations may be obtained from the Undergraduate Courses section
of the University Course
and Unit Handbook and from the BBus(Hons)
Brochure provided by the School of Accounting and Corporate
Governance.
Supervisors
The coursework units offered in the Honours program are taught
by academic staff in the school. The following staff are available
to supervise dissertations by Honours students:
Current Honours Students
Some Past Dissertations
- How licensed Real Estate Agents in Tasmania use staff training
and education to enchance compliance with the Rules of Conduct
contained in Section 48 of the Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents
Act 1991 (Honours, Simone Bingham, 2004)
- Internal and External Monitors of Earnings Management (Honours,
Courtney Chugg, 2003)
- Interlocking Directorship and Financial Performance (Honours,
Joanna Spencer, 2003)
- Concise Financial Reporting in Australia (Honours, Bernadette
Smith, 2003)
- Ownership structure and remuneration committee composition:
Corporate governance practices (Honours, Dianne Barkas, 2002)
- Voluntary Environmental Disclosure in Annual Reports
(Honours, Hui Li Chong, 2002)
- Evidence of the Usefulness of AASB 1033 Derivative Disclosures
(Honours, Daron Heald 2000)
- Credible Reporting of Accruals in Australia: The Role of
Big 5 Auditors (Honours, Anna King 2000)
- Environmental Disclosure in annual reports: an examination
of quality (Honours, Nikole Allison, 1999)
- Tangible asset revaluation choice: a study of decisions by
managers of financially distressed and healthy firms (Honours,
Jessica Ang, 1999)
- Voluntary environmental agreements: "A win for Business"?
The market value impact of participating in the Greenhouse Challenge
(Honours, Carlin Dowling, 1999)
- Accounting policy choice for restructuring costs (Honours,
Li Peng Lim, 1999)
- Reasons why firms adopted ISOYD and the firms reactions to
the change to AASB 1013: Accounting for Goodwill (Honours,
Muttarat Achalabun, 1998)
- An investigation of the factors related to the successful
implementation of enterprise resource planning systems (Honours,
Lu Bai, 1998)
- Earnings management in response to changes in the corporate
income tax rate (Honours, Justin Hill, 1998)
- Local government financial reports: are they useful to users?
(Honours, George Piggott, 1998)
How Do I Apply?
If you are interested in applying to do our courses then
you can either apply
online or offline
through the UTAS prospective student home page.
International students need to submit applications through the
University's International
Students office.
Further Enquiries
The staff
directory provides information about the teaching areas of the
School's staff. Please contact
the school if you require any further information about the
courses offered.
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