ACCT11059 - Accounting, Learning and Online Communication

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit introduces you to the role of accounting in business and to key financial and management accounting concepts. You will be given a different listed company and are introduced to the actual financial statements of your firm, completing simple analyses of your firm's financial statements using Excel. You will also be supported to develop your skills to learn more effectively and to communicate and collaborate online.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

Term 3 - 2025 Profile
Melbourne
Online
Sydney

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 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.

Assessment Tasks

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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

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 80.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 8.86% 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: Internal staff discussions
Feedback
Formal Student Consultation times may assist some students to better communicate with the Unit Coordinator, particularly those with personal or other issues they may wish to discuss with the Unit Coordinator on a one-to-one basis.
Recommendation
To further assist students to interact well with the Unit Coordinator, online Student Consultation times will be provided. This will be particularly designed to assist students with personal or other issues with an easy way to communicate with the Unit Coordinator on a one-to-one basis.
Action Taken
This was implemented.
Source: Student comments with the Unit Coordinator
Feedback
An early evening time for the online tutorial may assist students with a range of outside obligations to be able to attend class.
Recommendation
To assist students with a range of outside obligations to be able to attend class, an early evening time for the online tutorial will be trialed to gauge the level of interest for a class at this time.
Action Taken
This was implemented, but did not prove popular with students.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Students suggested some incremental improvements to the Company Spreadsheet template used in the unit to make it more user-friendly.
Recommendation
The UC will make some adjustments to the Company Spreadsheet to assist with its use by students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Some students requested that recordings of the workshops be made available as soon as possible each week after the online classes.
Recommendation
The UC will seek to edit and load video recordings of the workshops by the morning of the day after each week's workshop in Term 1. These recordings for all weeks will then be provided in Terms 2 and 3 at the beginning of term.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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