Accountability and Accounting
UndergraduateTAS-BFA1032025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 21 July 2025,
- 15 Sept 2025
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- $3,128
- Upfront cost
- $0
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- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Accountability and Accounting
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain the relationship between organisational responsibilities, accountabilities and accounting.
- Apply management accounting tools to enable informed decisions by various stakeholders.
- Apply financial accounting principles and techniques to enable informed decisions by various stakeholders.
- Communicate with various stakeholders using language and standards expected of business professionals.
- Topic 1: Accounting and accountability
- Topic 2: Organisations and their reporting boundaries / Writing skills
- Topic 3: The external reporting of social and environmental information
- Topic 4: An introduction to management accounting
- Topic 5: Budgeting
- Topic 6: Performance measurement and evaluation
- Topic 7: An introduction to financial accounting
- Topic 8: The balance sheet
- Topic 9: The income statement and the statement of changes in equity
- Topic 10: The statement of cashflows, and cash controls
This subject will help you understand the role that accounting plays in providing accountability. We move beyond introductory accounting and explore the important role that accounting has in organisations, society and the environment.
After completing this subject, you will have fundamental management and financial accounting knowledge, tools for analysing organisations’ external reports and a comprehension of how accounting can be used to address social responsibility, ethical conduct and sustainability.
This subject allows you to begin the up skilling required by our professional accounting bodies, requiring us to move beyond orthodox/conventional accounting practices and understand our role in accountability.
- Case Study: Applying Financial Accounting (40%)
- Essay: Applying the Accountability Model to Social and Environmental Information (30%)
- Group Case Study: Applying Management Accounting (30%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Equivalent subjects
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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