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ACCT20071 - Foundations in Accounting

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit introduces students to financial accounting within the context of the accounting conceptual framework and relevant accounting standards. Students will be provided with a sound knowledge of accounting and the business environment, the accounting cycle (for both service and retailing entities), effective accounting information systems, accounting for current and non-current assets and liabilities, and accounting for partnerships. If you have successfully completed the unit ACCT20052 you should not enrol in this unit .

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Students must successfully complete ACCT20070 Accounting in Australia prior to enrolling in this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical and Written Assessment 20%
2. Presentation and Written Assessment 20%
3. Examination 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 65.38% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 37.68% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Coordinators' reflections
Feedback
More assistance to be provided with assessment in the form of workshopping it in the regular classes
Recommendation
Workshop the assessments in the weeks prior to assessment due dates. This will help in reducing academic integrity cases and help in student retention.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a professional level of knowledge about the objectives and principles underlying financial reporting by being able to critically engage in written discussion in these areas.
  2. Review, analyse and consolidate financial information into classified financial statements, as specified by the Australian accounting standards.
  3. Correctly interpret the financial information contained within classified financial statements through the use appropriate financial ratios, and provide professional written reports on the results of those analyses.
  4. Demonstrate application and understanding of the theoretical, framework in accounting, and accountng theories.
  5. Provide professional written reports on the significance of the recognition and measurement of current and non-current assets and liabilities for financial reports.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Practical and Written Assessment
2 - Presentation and Written Assessment
3 - Examination
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge
2 - Communication
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Practical and Written Assessment
2 - Presentation and Written Assessment
3 - Examination