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This course is a career-oriented learning experience for business professionals participating in corporate, social and public enterprises, including professional accounting firms. It will help in compiling your UC Employability Portfolio, a graduating requirement for the Bachelor of Commerce (see BSNS299). It covers people skills, leadership and followership, curiosity and agility, deep learning, conducting inquiries and analysis, whistle-blowing and ethical dilemmas, and culture. It examines the work of consultants, analysts, innovators, investigators, controllers, etc. This blends with the technical and academic learning in your major, and anticipates the challenging and rewarding situations you will face as your career advances.
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.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Any 60 points at 100-level or above
Class contact time: 3 hours per week over 12 weeks
Keith Dixon
The assessment of your learning comprises the following:• An individual item to be completed during March (25%)• A group item to be completed during May (25%) • A portfolio including the improved versions of the above, a CV and other pieces of writing to be worked on in May and finalised as a mid-year exam submission in June (50%). There are no handwritten tests or exams.
There is no set textbook to purchase.
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Domestic fee $806.00
International fee $3,775.00
* 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.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.
For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .