Undergraduate - UnitACF2491 - Company reporting

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Accounting
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

The current Australian reporting and regulatory framework applicable to reporting entities including an analysis of significant accounting standards, professional reporting requirements and legal and stock exchange requirements. Accounting for corporate groups and issues in financial reporting are also explored.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

explain the content of the reports of publicly listed companies, and regulations of the various regulatory bodies
critically examine current issues and disclosure requirements in financial reporting
prepare financial reports for single and consolidated entities
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with company reporting and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by ACF2491.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Janto Haman

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester.

Prerequisites

Students must have passed AFF1000 or ACF1000 and AFF1121 or ACF1121 before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

ACB2491, AFC2120, ACC2120, ACC2491, AFG2491, AFG2023, ACG2491, AFW2491, ACW2491, AFF2491, AFX2491