Course director: Dr Stewart Jones
The course
The honours degree in accounting provides students with the opportunity to undertake a further one year's education in accounting and finance and to provide a framework for more in-depth study of areas covered in the ordinary three-year Bachelor of Business degree. The fourth year comprises eight semester units which include the completion of a research project. The extra material covered in fourth year allows honours students to tackle practical problems from a broader intellectual perspective. The honours degree allows students to complete a research essay, a major piece of investigation and writing which has no counterpart in the pass degrees. Increasingly, major employers of accounting graduates are supporting honours programs and encouraging eligible students to tackle the fourth year.
Venue
Classes will be offered at the Caulfield campus.
Credit for work done elsewhere
Please refer to the course regulations for the Bachelor of Business (Accounting)(Honours) for details relating to credit transfers.
Course structure
To qualify for the honours degree, a candidate shall complete eight subjects, including:
(1) ACC4050 (Research project) and SYM4060 (Research Methods), both of which are compulsory and equivalent to two subjects each;
(2) two subjects chosen from ACC4010 (Advanced financial accounting), ACC4020 (Advanced management accounting), ACC4030 (Advanced finance), ACC4040 (Advanced investments) and ACC7210 (Advanced treasury management);
(3) two subjects chosen from those listed in (2) above (and not previously selected) or from subjects offered by the Syme Division of Accounting and Finance with a subject code with a numeric prefix of `7'.