On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a descriptive understanding of achievements within the discipline of financial accounting with reference to various processes and theories.
2. Assess the implications for accounting of alternate approaches to decision making and alternative concepts of organization.
3. Critically examine the role of accounting information from a strategic perspective.
4. Work independently or collaboratively to communicate professional knowledge and experience in both written and verbal formats.
5. Make reasoned ethical judgements relating to their professional knowledge and accounting research.
6. Evaluate different accounting paradigms and outcomes to inform and direct personal learning.
7. Construct a research proposal and conduct an investigative project producing outcomes which meet academic standards.

Lectures may include, but not be restricted to, the following topics:
1. Accounting Theory
2. Accounting Research
3. Ethics relating to research and professions
4. The accounting environment
5. Normative research
6. Empirical research
7. Alternative approaches
8. Evaluation

This course replaces ACFI3010 and ACFI3030.

This course is not available to students who have completed either ACFI3010 or ACFI3030.

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ACFI2001 or ACFI2003

Internal Mode

Lecture
Tutorial

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 13 weeks