• Offered by Research School of Accounting
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Business
  • Areas of interest Commerce
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Liwei Jiang
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in First Semester 2019
    Second Semester 2019
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This course is designed to provide students with a more in-depth understanding of the concepts and issues involved with accounting and commerce related areas. Students will undertake independent research work which must be supervised by full time academic staff within the Research School of Accounting. Interested students should see the Master of Accounting program convenor for further details.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. Critically analyse advanced issues in accounting and commerce contexts.
  2. Demonstrate a solid understanding of research in the selected topic(s).
  3. Critically evaluate the complex ideas and research issues involved in the selected topic(s).

Other Information

Indicative Assessment

  1. Typical assessment may include, but is not restricted to, multiple major pieces of assessment and/or a major research report to be conducted, supervised and assessed by full time academic staff within the Research School of Accounting. The assessment tasks are designed as appropriate to assess the learning outcomes of the course. (null) [LO null]

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Workload

Students taking this course are expected to commit at least 12 hours a week (including non-teaching weeks) to completing the work. This will include attending classes, course reading, research, writing and assignment work.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the Research School of Accounting to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
3
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $4320
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $5700
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
2574 25 Feb 2019 04 Mar 2019 31 Mar 2019 31 May 2019 In Person View

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
7546 22 Jul 2019 29 Jul 2019 31 Aug 2019 25 Oct 2019 In Person View

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