Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Stephen Haswell
Contact via stephen.haswell@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp and ACCG224(P)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines the framework and techniques that are used to prepare general purpose financial reports for companies. The unit builds on ACCG100, ACCG101 and ACCG224 and further considers the recognition and measurement of financial statement elements and accounting for income tax. A major topic of the unit is the techniques of consolidation accounting used to prepare the consolidated financial statements for a corporate group. Through the in-depth discussion of a number of key corporate accounting issues, this unit provides students with the technical accounting knowledge to prepare and use company financial statements. This unit develops graduate capabilities centred on higher order analysis and effective communication skills using a range of technical materials.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Assessed Coursework | 24% | Weeks 3-7, 9-11 |
Class Test | 10% | Week 12 |
Quiz | 6% | Week 13 |
Final Examination | 60% | University Examination Period |
Due: Weeks 3-7, 9-11
Weighting: 24%
An extra question will be distributed in the tutorial during weeks 3-7 and 9-11 for the purpose of assessing your ongoing effort and understanding in the unit. Students will be instructed to complete these questions individually and are permitted to refer to course materials. Marks will be awarded based on accuracy. Each assessment will be worth 3%. You will receive feedback from your tutor in the following week. You must attempt the assessed coursework in your registered tutorial.
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 10%
The class test will be held in the tutorial during week 12. The coverage will be all lecture material from weeks 6 to 9 and tutorial material from weeks 7 to 10 inclusive.
The purpose is to give you a focus for your study and to give you timely feedback on your performance. The test will be closed book, answered under examination conditions and of examination standard. Your tutor will mark the test in the same way as an examination question and give you detailed feedback on your performance. You must sit for the test in your registered tutorial.
* Note that there will be no supplementary class test. Therefore, absence will, upon receipt of adequate documentation of misadventure or illness, increase the weighting on the final examination accordingly. Students are required to lodge an Advice of Absence form with the student centre within 5 working days of the test date and provide documentary evidence to support their absence. An advice of absence lodged after the five working days will not be accepted. Students approved for a final examination weighting in excess of 60%, will be posted on iLearn at the end of the session.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 6%
The quiz will be held in week 13. The quiz will be computer based (accessed from iLearn) with multiple choice questions. The topic coverage of the quiz will be all material in the entire course. The performance of the quiz will be released on iLearn in week 14.
Due: University Examination Period
Weighting: 60%
A final examination is included as an assessment task for this unit to provide assurance that:
i) the product belongs to the student and
ii) the student has attained the knowledge and skills tested in the exam.
The final exam is of three hours and ten minutes duration. The final exam of ACCG308 is designed to test you against the learning objectives of the unit. Students in ACCG308 for 2013 will be required to do a final exam that tests them on all the material covered during the session.
The University Examination period in the First Half Year 2013 is from Monday 10 June - Friday 28 June. You are expected to present yourself for examination at the time and place designated in the University Timetable. The timetable will be available in Draft form approximately eight weeks before the commencement of the examinations and in Final form approximately four weeks before the commencement of the examinations. It is the student's responsibility to make sure that they have ascertained the room number for their exam before the exam day.
You are advised that it is Macquarie University policy not to set early examinations for individuals or groups of students. All students are expected to ensure that they are available until the end of the teaching session, that is, the final day of the official examination period.
The only exception to not sitting an examination at the designated time is because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances you may wish to consider applying for Special Consideration. The University’s policy on special consideration process is available at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html Further details of policy on special consideration are given in the section below.
If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the Special Consideration process the examination will be scheduled after the conclusion of the official examination period. Note that there are no deferred supplementary exams in this unit. Students who are granted a Supplementary Exam but do not manage to sit for the Supplementary Exam in the scheduled period will not be able to pass the unit in First Session 2013.
The Macquarie university examination policy details the principles and conduct of examinations at the University. The policy is available at:
http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/examination/policy.htm
Details regarding the form and scope of the final exam will be provided to you during the final lecture. In the meantime you should be aware that the best preparation for the final exam is as follows:
Name Stephen Haswell Unit Convenor & Lecturer |
Email address accg308@mq.edu.au
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Jessica Chen Lecturer |
accg308@mq.edu.au
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Cissy Zhan Administrator |
accg308@mq.edu.au
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Please use email as the first form of contact. Teaching staff will receive correspondence only if sent to the unit email account above.
The consultation timetable will be made available on the unit’s website in week 2. Full-time staff members are available for two hours per week for consultation starting from week 3.
You are encouraged to seek help at a time that is convenient to you from a staff member teaching on this unit during their regular consultation hours. In special circumstances, an appointment may be made outside regular consultation hours. Staff will not conduct any consultations by email. You may, however, phone staff during their consultation hours.
In order to gain access to staff located at levels 2 and 3 of building E4A during their consultation hours please ring the staff member from the phones available in the lobby (phone numbers of relevant staff members will be provided on iLearn and are available next to the phones).
Students experiencing significant difficulties with any topic in the unit must seek assistance immediately.
ACCG308 requires students to attend one two hour lecture per week. Lecture places have been allocated by the university’s on-line enrolment system to ensure that lecture theatres do not become overcrowded, causing non-compliance with Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines including the fire safety regulations. Therefore you must attend your allocated lecture time. Proof of registration may be required if overcrowding occurs.
Day |
Time |
Room |
Tuesday |
8 – 10 pm |
W2 Mac Theatre |
Wednesday |
4 – 6 pm |
W6D Lotus Theatre |
ACCG308 also requires students to attend a weekly small group tutorial of one-hour duration. The maximum number of students in each group is twenty-five.
Tutors will record attendance each week. You must attend at least 9 of the 12 tutorials in order to complete satisfactory coursework requirements for this unit. For this purpose we do not accept medical certificates for missed tutorials; it is up to you to organise yourself to come to at least nine tutorials.
Tutorials begin in Week 2 – the week beginning 4 March.
Tutorial places have been allocated by the University's on-line enrolment system. Most tutorials are already full. If you do not already have a tutorial time, then you must enrol on-line as soon as possible.
Due to the large number of students enrolled in ACCG308 changes to tutorial times are managed by the on-line enrolment system. It is not necessary to contact members of staff about tutorial changes. On-line enrolment changes will be shut down at the end of week three so all changes must be made by then.
You can only attend and sit for the Assessed Coursework and Class Test in your registered tutorial.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Prize is awarded to the best student in the unit ACCG308 Corporate Accounting and Reporting.
Jubb, P.B., Haswell, S.M. and I.A. Langfield-Smith, Company Accounting, 5th Edition 2010, Cengage, Melbourne.
The text can be purchased from the Macquarie University Co-op Bookshop.
This text is used extensively for both lecture references and for tutorial work in each week of the unit. Ideally students should have a copy of this text that they can access at all times. Copies of this text are available on Library Reserve.
You will need basic computer skills to use Macquarie University’s iLearn teaching facility (refer to the detail contained below in Unit Web Page). You will need to download documents supplied in pdf format.
ACCG308 lecture handouts, notices and assignment solutions will be available in full from the unit’s web page. You can access the web page on campus, at work or at home https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/ where you can login to “iLearn”. Check the web site on a weekly basis for notices, updates, etc.
Lectures will be audio recorded on ‘iLecture’ and made available on iLearn by the end of the week. Some tutorial classes may be made available on iLearn by ‘virtual tutorial’ technology. Please see the notice on iLearn.
Week | Lecture Topic | Jubb Text |
1 (SH) | Unit introduction, overview of regulation. | Chs 1, 2 & 3. |
2 (SH) | Introductory company accounting, share issues, distributions to owners. | Ch 4, Ch 5 |
3 (JC) | Company reorganisation. | Ch 6 |
4 (JC) | Debt securities. | Ch 7 |
5 (SH) | Business combination. | Ch 16 (p. 439-454; p. 463 to 473) |
6 (SH) | Purchase consolidation 1. | Ch 17 Ch 18 (up to p. 549) |
7 (SH) | Purchase consolidation 2. | Ch 19 (up to p. 605) |
Mid-term break | ||
8 (SH) | Intra-group transactions. | Ch 20 (up to p. 658) |
9 (SH) | Direct non-controlling interest. | Ch 21 |
10 (SH) | Indirect interest. | Ch 23 |
11 (JC) | Equity accounting. | Ch16 (p. 456-463), Ch 26 (up to p.907) |
12 (SH) | Accounting for joint ventures. | Ch 26 (p. 907-926) |
13 (SH) | Discussion of exam. |
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Academic Honesty Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Assessment Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
Grading Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Grievance Management Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grievance_management/policy.html
Special Consideration Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
The nature of scholarly endeavour, dependent as it is on the work of others, binds all members of the University community to abide by the principles of academic honesty. Its fundamental principle is that all staff and students act with integrity in the creation, development, application and use of ideas and information. This means that:
Further information on the academic honesty can be found in the Macquarie University Academic Honesty Policy at http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Macquarie University uses the following grades in coursework units of study:
Grade descriptors and other information concerning grading are contained in the Macquarie University Grading Policy which is available at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
All final grades in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance are determined by a grading committee and are not the sole responsibility of the Unit Convenor.
Students will be awarded one of these grades plus a Standardised Numerical Grade (SNG). The SNG is not necessarily a summation of the individual assessment components.
The final grade and SNG that are awarded reflect the corresponding grade descriptor in the Grading Policy.
In addition, there is a requirement to pass the final examination to be awarded a final grade of a Pass or a higher grade.
If, at the conclusion of the unit, you have performed below expectations, and are considering lodging an appeal of grade and/or viewing your final exam script please refer to the following website which provides information about these processes and the cut off dates in the first instance. Please read the instructions provided concerning what constitutes a valid grounds for appeal before appealing your grade.
The University is committed to equity and fairness in all aspects of its learning and teaching. In stating this commitment, the University recognises that there may be circumstances where a student is prevented by unavoidable disruption from performing in accordance with their ability. A special consideration policy exists to support students who experience serious and unavoidable disruption such that they do not reach their usual demonstrated performance level. The policy is available at:
http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html
Note the following policy regarding illness and supplementary exams
What is satisfactory coursework?
Satisfactory coursework is relevant to special consideration applications. To have satisfactory coursework in this unit you must have passed (obtained 50% or more) in the aggregate marks of your assessed coursework, quiz and class test AND have attended at least nine tutorial classes.
Macquarie University provides a range of Academic Student Support Services. Details of these services can be accessed at: http://students.mq.edu.au/support/
Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.
Details of these services can be accessed at http://www.student.mq.edu.au/ses/.
If you wish to receive IT help, we would be glad to assist you at http://informatics.mq.edu.au/help/.
When using the university's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students and it outlines what can be done.
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This graduate capability is supported by:
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This graduate capability is supported by:
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This graduate capability is supported by:
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This graduate capability is supported by:
The first lecture (week 1) begins with administration of the unit. Topic areas covered include the International Accounting Standards Board, Australian equivalents of International Financial Reporting Standards, and the Framework.
Week 2 examines share issues and the elements of financial statements and how they are presented in a company’s accounting records and classified in the financial statements.
Week 3 discusses the re-organization of a company’s capital. Of special interest is the share buyback, a procedure used recently by a number of high-profile companies.
Week 4 covers different types of debt and demonstrates methods of accounting for the issue and repayment of debt.
Week 5 considers investment in new assets, especially those that lead to business combinations, an important concept. The discussion this week is from the point of view of the acquirer of the asset. Investments are considered for a single asset, then for multiple assets that amount to a business (and those that do not); and these are contrasted with equity (share) investments in other companies. The latter may lead to the acquirer having significant influence over the other company, or control over it. The accounting in each case is different. Significant influence leads to equity accounting. Control leads to consolidation accounting. All of these are introduced in the same text chapter (Ch. 16) so that the purpose of each is compared and contrasted.
Week 6 is the first of five weeks devoted to the study of consolidation accounting. We begin with the principles of consolidation accounting including the control criterion, the entity concept, consolidation processes and the preparation of a consolidation worksheet at control date.
Week 7 continues the discussion of the consolidation process and the preparation of a consolidation worksheet, but this time is the application after control date.
Week 8 covers the elimination of intra-entity transactions within a consolidated group.
Week 9 considers impact of non-controlling interests on the consolidation worksheet.
Week 10 covers the consolidation accounting of indirect ownership interests which can arise when there are more than two companies in the group.
Week 11 covers the topic of equity accounting that accounts for the relationship between an investor and its associates.
Week 12 covers accounting for joint ventures.
Week 13 revises the unit’s objectives to assist students with their final exam preparation.