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Advanced Corporate Accounting 1
ACCT2202
Advanced Corporate Accounting

Week 1:
Unit introduction

ACCT2202 Advanced Corporate Accounting:

Unit staff
• Lecturer-in-charge and tutor
• Dr Rick Newby
• Tutors
• Mr Val Chin (Val.Chin@uwa.edu.au)
• Mr Kevin Burns (Kevin.Burns@uwa.edu.au)

Unit overview:

Learning outcomes
• Completion of this unit should help you to:
• interpret and apply specific requirements of a range of Australian Accounting Standards (AASBs)
• critically evaluate accounting requirements under
Australian GAAP
• prepare general purpose financial statements for
Australian reporting entities; and
• discuss and apply advanced concepts to the preparation of consolidated and/or equity financial statements Unit overview:

Educational principles
• We encourage and assist you to develop the ability and desire to:
• master subject matter, concepts and techniques of accounting at internationally recognised standards;
• adapt acquired knowledge to new situations;
• think and reason logically and creatively;
• communicate clearly, concisely and logically in
English; and
• undertake problem identification, analysis and solution Unit overview:

Expectations of students
• To inform themselves of unit objectives and assessment methods • To attend classes, complete their work and use support facilities wisely
• To show honesty and integrity

Unit overview:

Weekly classes and text
• Classes
• One two-hour lecture
• One one-hour tutorial/workshop

• Texts
• Leo, K., Hoggett, J., Sweeting, J. and
Radford, J. (2009). Company
Accounting. (8th edition). Milton,
Queensland: John Wiley & Sons
Australia, Ltd.
• Additional readings as per unit outline

Unit overview:

Assessment
• Mid-semester exam (35%)
• 2 hour paper
• 6pm Tuesday September 13th, 2011
• covers material up to the Week 6 lecture
• largely multiple choice
• End-of-semester exam
• 3 hours and 10 minutes paper
• covers material from all of semester
• no

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