This unit introduces you to key concepts of financial accounting and supports you to apply these concepts to various elements of accounting. You will also examine financial statements and how they are analysed and interpreted for effective decision making by both internal and external users. This unit prepares you for further accounting units.
Level | Undergraduate |
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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 |
Anti-requisite: 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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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 Task | Weighting |
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1. Online Quiz(zes) | 10% |
2. Practical Assessment | 40% |
3. Group Work | 30% |
4. Oral Examination | 20% |
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%).
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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 64.71% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 21.79% response rate.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
ACCT11081 satisfies several learning outcomes specific to external accreditation, which are:
LO1: Explain the different business structures |
LO2: Explain the following in relation to financial accounting: a)The role and purpose of accounting, accounting processes and systems; b)The purpose of financial statements; c) The role and purpose of accounting standards; d)The regulatory environment for financial reporting |
LO3: Record transactions to illustrate the activities of different types of businesses, including sole trader, partnerships and straightforward corporate/company accounts |
LO4: Explain and apply the accounting treatment to record basic business transactions and other events for different types of businesses using the principles of double entry accounting |
LO5: Use accounting software to record business transactions |
LO6: Outline and explain the accounting principles and concepts underlying accounting and financial reporting including the principles of the Conceptual Framework of Accounting and generally accepted accounting principles. |
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1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | ||
2 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | |
3 - Group Work | • | • | • | ||
4 - Oral Examination | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 - Communication | • | • | |||
2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | |
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | |||
6 - Information Technology Competence | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |