ACCTING 7025 - Accounting Essentials for Decision Makers (M)
North Terrace Campus - Trimester 3 - 2021
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code ACCTING 7025 Course Accounting Essentials for Decision Makers (M) Coordinating Unit Accounting Term Trimester 3 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 3 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Assessment Exam/assignments/tests/tutorial work as prescribed at first lecture Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Dr VG Sridharan
TRIMESTER 1 & 2:
Professor Paul CoramTRIMESTER 3:VG Sridharan
Email: vg.sridharan@adelaide.edu.auCourse Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. explain accounting concepts and the structure and purpose of financial statements.
2. analyse and apply accounting information to facilitate decision making.
3. explain and apply the concept of relevant costing to a range of decision making situations.
4. explain and apply flexible budgeting as a means of exercising control and assist in decision making in a business.
5. create and evaluate investment proposals within a business environment.University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s) Deep discipline knowledge
- informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies
- acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1
- accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)
1 - 5 Critical thinking and problem solving
- steeped in research methods and rigor
- based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development
- demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment
1 - 5 Teamwork and communication skills
- developed from, with, and via the SGDE
- honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies
- encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning
2 Career and leadership readiness
- technology savvy
- professional and, where relevant, fully accredited
- forward thinking and well informed
- tested and validated by work based experiences
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Text Book:
Accounting: An Introduction 8th edition, Atrill, P, McLaney EJ, Harvey D, Cong, LM, 2021, Pearson, Melbourne (ISBN: 9781488625695)
Recommended Resources
The financial press – both newspapers and business magazines cover a wide range of business topics.
Websites such as those provided by ASIC, ASX, CPA and CA.Online Learning
Course resources available on the course website: www.myuni.adelaide.edu.au include:
Lecture documents and related material.
In class exercises and discussion questions.
Assignment related documents.
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Classes will provide students with material that covers both financial and management accounting. In addition, there will be questions and problems that students will be asked to complete. These will be in two categories:
1 In-class questions
These questions are done during the class. They complement material covered in the topic. No extra preparation is required.
2. Self-study questions
Solutions to self-study questions are provided on MyUni. These questions will only be discussed if requested by students for clarification of specific issues.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The university expects full-time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies. This means that you are expected to commit approximately 9 hours for a three unit course or 13 hours for a four unit course of private study outside regular classes.
Students in this course are expected to attend all classes throughout the semester.Learning Activities Summary
Week 1 Introduction to Accounting – Chapter 1 (includes brief discussion of Limited Companies Chapter 4) Measuring and Reporting Financial Position- Chapter 2
Week 2 Measuring and Reporting Financial Performance – Chapter 3
Week 3 Cash Flow Statements – Chapter 6 Corporate Social Responsibility – Chapter 7
Week 4 Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Statements – Chapter 8
Week 5 CVP Analysis – Chapter 9 Full Product Costing – Chapter 10
Week 6 Budgeting - Chapter 11 Capital Investment Decisions – Chapter 12 -
Assessment
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment Task Weighting Learning Outcome Mid-semester test 25% 1,2 Group assignment 25% 1,2 Final Exam 50% 1,2,3,4,5 Assessment Related Requirements
Assignment Guidelines including Referencing Details
A copy of the Postgraduate Programs: Communication Skills Guide is available to students. This guide will assist you structure your assignments. A copy of the guide can also be downloaded from http://www.adelaide.edu.au/professions/hub/downloads/Communication-Skills-Guide.pdf .
This publication also provides guidelines on a range of other important communication skills including writing essays and management reports, making oral presentations etc.
In preparing any written piece of assessment for your postgraduate studies it is important to draw on the relevant ‘literature’ to support critical analysis. Also essential is to reference the literature used. Correct referencing is important because it identifies the source of the ideas and arguments that you present, and sometimes the source of the actual words you use, and helps to avoid the problem of plagiarism. (Further information on plagiarism is provided later in this course outline.)
The Harvard system is widely used in the Business School. Guidelines for the use of this style of referencing can be found in the Communication Skills Guide.
Further assistance with referencing is available from the Faculty’s Learning Support Advisors. The contact details are provided in the Communication Skills Guide.Assessment Detail
Final Examination
An examination will be held at the end of the course. It will be an open book examination.
An overall mark of 50 is required to pass the course. However, you are also required to obtain a minimum mark of 40% in the final examination to pass the course.Submission
Presentation of assignments
All work is to be submitted online. Instructions will be provided with the detailed assessment information.
Please retain a copy of all assignments submitted for assessment.
Assignments may not be accepted if they do not have a signed acknowledgement of the University’s policy on plagiarism: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/230
Students must not submit work for an assignment that has previously been submitted for this course or any other course without prior approval of the lecturer-in-charge.
Late assignment submission
Students are expected to submit their work by the due date to maintain a fair and equitable system. Extensions will generally only be given for medical or other serious reasons.
All requests for extensions must be emailed to the lecturer-in-charge of the course a minimum of 5 days before the due date. Each request will be assessed on its merits. A late assignment (without prior arrangement) will be penalised by 20% of the total assignment mark for each day that it is late.
Return of assignments
Markers aim to ark and return assignments to students within two (2) weeks of the due date with written feedback. Marked research assignments will be returned to students via MyUni.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through .
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Student Feedback
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SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
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- Student Grievance Resolution Process
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