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In this unit, you will examine the professional environment of the auditor, particularly audit standards, audit practice, legal liability, ethics and current developments (e.g., Audit Expectation Gap). Audit methodology and planning, internal control assessments and exposure to influences of information technology on audit testing will also be examined. The unit material, while drawing on audit theory, is very practically based for the needs of future audit professionals. Statistical and non-statistical audit sampling is also covered in detail. With an emphasis on professional and ethical practice, you will gain an appreciation of the role and needs of audit professionals in business environments.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: ACCT11081 or ACCT19084
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate 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.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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.
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Teacher engagement
Teachers and tutors will be more focused on student requested and be more engaging in class.
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Minimum standards for learning and teaching
The School's minimum standards for Moodle and for learning and teaching will be implemented in full.
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Learning materials
All learning materials will be updated.
- Exercise judgement under supervision to provide possible solutions to routine audit and accounting problems in straightforward concepts using appropriate regulatory, ethical, economic and governance perspectives
- Integrate theoretical and technical audit and accounting knowledge in an audit context
- Critically apply theoretical and technical audit and accounting knowledge and skills to provide possible solutions to routine audit related issues
- Justify and communicate audit and accounting advice and ideas in straightforward contexts to assist with the decisions of users of financial reports
- Reflect on performance to identify and action learning opportunities and self-improvements.
ACCT19064 supports external accreditation requirements for business acumen, critical thinking and communication competencies.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 15% | |||||
| 2 - Report - 40% | |||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 45% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||