• Offered by Research School of Accounting
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Business
  • Areas of interest Commerce

Special topics are subject to confirmation by the relevant school. Please see the Program Convenors for further information.

Learning Outcomes

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

  1. read widely within the literature concerning the information content of published financial statement and the use of accounting information in contracting;
  2. demonstrated an understanding of the key issues presented in the above literature and the implications of these issues for accounting research and practice ;
  3. developed rudimentary empirical research skills.

Other Information

Indicative Assessment

  1. Seminar Critiques and Presentation 40% (40) [LO null]
  2. Practical Research Assignment 50% (50) [LO null]
  3. Participation in Seminar Discussions 10% (10) [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

Incompatible with BUSN4101

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

Assumed Knowledge

This course is only available to students enrolled in a PhD or MPhil in the College of Business and Economics. Enrolment must be approved by the Convenor of the program in which you are enrolled.


While there are no formal pre-requisites for this course, students are expected to have successfully completed a unit in financial accounting, a subject in quantitative methods or statistics and a unit in corporate finance (or equivalent). Students with no finance background who elect to study this course will need to devote extra study time to enhance their understanding of the basic principles of finance (particularly financial asset valuation). 

Fees

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

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you 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). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees

Student Contribution Band:
34
Unit value:
6 units

If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found 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
2021 $3360
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $5580
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
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
Data Analytics in Contemporary Accounting
2294 21 Feb 2022 28 Feb 2022 31 Mar 2022 27 May 2022 In Person View

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
Data Analytics in Contemporary Accounting
5281 25 Jul 2022 01 Aug 2022 31 Aug 2022 28 Oct 2022 In Person View

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