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Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast, Hong Kong Universal Ed

Introduction

This unit will help you understand the role that accounting plays in providing accountability.  We move beyond introductory accounting and explore the important role that accounting has in organisations, society and the environment.

After completing this unit, you will have fundamental management and financial accounting knowledge, tools for analysing organisations’ external reports and a comprehension of how of accounting can be used to address social responsibility, ethical conduct and sustainability.

This unit allows you to begin the up skilling required by our professional accounting bodies, requiring us to move beyond orthodox/conventional accounting practices and understand our role in accountability.

Summary 2021

Unit name Accountability and Accounting
Unit code BFA103
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Business & Economics
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Discipline Accounting and Accountability
Coordinator

Ms Alissa Hodge  (ASP2 Launceston and Distance)

Dr Terese Fiedler (Semester 2 Hobart and Distance)

Level Introductory
Available as student elective? Yes
Breadth Unit? No

Availability

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Learning Outcomes

ILO1Analyse the role of accountability and accounting for all areas of organisational performance.
ILO2Apply management accounting tools to make informed decisions about organisational performance.
ILO3Apply financial accounting principles and techniques to make informed decisions about organisational performance.
ILO4Produce written artefacts, individually and in team environments, using professional language and standards common to business professionals and peers.

Fees

Requisites

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

BFA113, XPD106, ZAA133

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

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Assessment

Case Study (25%); Written artefact (Part A), Essay (Part B) (25%); Final examination (50%).

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Textbooks

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