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Resources for Prospective Students: Undergraduate Study

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 (PDF 53KB) 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:

  • Tom Baxter
  • Simone Bingham
  • Peter Carroll
  • Sally Chaplin
  • Peter Collett
  • Wendy Fleet
  • Kathy Gibson
  • Sue Hrasky
  • William Maguire
  • Helena Mitev
  • Sonia Shimeld
  • Bernadette Smith
  • Belinda Williams
  • Trevor Wilmshurst
Current Honours Students
  • Kristian Aaberg
  • Jennifer (Sui Yu) Chai
  • Xiaoli Guo

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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