BUS256: Contemporary Financial Accounting

This is an advanced accounting unit and therefore critically examines and evaluates a number of specific issues selected from the prevailing set of accounting standards promulgated in Australia and legally mandated for use by companies. These range from share issues, consolidations, tax-effect accounting, financial instruments, insolvencies, leases, extractive industries, public sector accounting, asset impairment and intangibles. The unit focuses on definitions, concepts, principles and theories as well as accounting practices in the Australian context.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures/workshops/tutorials: 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites	C217/BUS217 Technology and Accounting Processes or C255 Financial Accounting I.
School	School of Business
Unit Coordinator	Dr David Holloway Position: Senior Lecturer - Accounting E-mail: D.Holloway@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 4.028 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2704
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Dr David Holloway Senior Lecturer - Accounting (D.Holloway@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2704 Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 4.028 MURDOCH S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)