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The course is student-centred and career-oriented. It is designed around working in professional firms and in corporate, public and social enterprise sectors; and joining a chartered accounting or certified accounting professional body (e.g., CA ANZ, CPAA, ACCA, CIMA). The course covers job finding, career development, communication, people skills, leadership and followership, deep learning, conducting inquiries, whistleblowing and ethical dilemmas, culture, and being work-ready and employable. The course materials feature the life and work of accountants, auditors, consultants, tax specialists and the like, in various organisations around the globe. Students are encouraged to reflect on the technical and academic learning in the rest of their degree, and the challenging and rewarding situations they will face during their accounting careers.
The course covers skills, practices and personal and professional attributes in high demand among organisations that employ accountants or who are clients of accountants. The course complements other courses, including ACCT211, ACCT222 and the various challenging accounting, auditing, tax and information systems courses aspiring accountants study at 300-level. The course is about Being an Accountant, rather than just doing accounting. The course is essential to getting your accounting career off to a flying start.
Having engaged in learning during the course, the learning outcomes you must attain are to: Discuss the role of being an accountant in various situations and under various conditions Collaborate with other accountant students Speak, write, listen, exhibit, present, advise and research in the context of learning about being an accountant Analyse, synthesise, assess and evaluate moderately difficult circumstances that people comprising organisations find themselves in, and in which accountants are implicated or have roles in addressing, as featured in selected case studies.
ACCT102 and ACCT103
Class contact time: 3 hours per week over 12 weeks
Keith Dixon
The assessment of your learning comprises the following:• An individual report to be completed during April (25%)• A video presentation of learning conducted in a group to be completed during May (25%) • A take-away exam conducted through LEARN and scheduled as part of the mid-year exams in June (50%). There are no handwritten tests or exams
There is no set textbook to purchase.
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Domestic fee $775.00
International fee $3,525.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .