The Bachelor of Accounting is designed to develop your knowledge and skills in reporting, analysing and managing financial resources in business and government entities. In addition to meeting the education requirements for membership of the Australian accounting professional bodies, the degree offers flexibility for you to study in related disciplines of your interest, including finance, business information systems, management, marketing, international business and corporate sustainability.

You will be equipped with the ability to critically analyse emerging accounting issues, and be inspired by the professional and scholarly accounting research that provides you with insights into issues underlying the accounting numbers, thus fostering your academic and professional competence. Gaining these academic and professional attributes will enhance your accounting career opportunities, or pursuance of advanced accounting studies.

When undertaking the Bachelor of Visual Arts at the ANU, you will be immersed in a program of rigorous scholarship and intensive studio practice, tailored to your aspirations and informed by internationally renowned art practitioners within Australia’s top-ranking university. You will graduate with the essential creative skills and critical knowledge to address the grand challenges of a rapidly changing world.

You will develop deep disciplinary knowledge and learn specialist skills offered across the School of Art and Design studio disciplines, including ceramics, glass, painting, photography and media arts, printmedia and drawing, sculpture and spatial practice, and textiles. You will extend your study through access to courses in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, combined with access to electives from across the ANU.

Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate and provide solutions to routine accounting problems.
2. Exercise judgement to provide solutions to accounting problems using, where appropriate, multidisciplinary perspectives.
3. Critically apply theoretical and technical accounting knowledge and skills to address issues in a broad business context.
4. Justify and communicate accounting advice and ideas to both specialists and non-specialists from other disciplines.

1. apply technical and creative skills, specialist knowledge and processes to realise artworks and practices that contribute to contemporary cultural production;
2. use artistic processes and methodologies to interrograte complex ideas relevant to local and global contexts;
3. critique and engage with a range of social, cultural and theoretical traditions relevant to visual art practice;
4. employ collaborative and independent methods, and strategies toward developing an ethical, sustainable and inclusive art practice;
5. demonstrate a developing understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices, and First Nations art practices across international and national contexts; and
6. identify contexts and implement strategies to establish your professional practice and/or future study.

Further Information

Electives: 

Students have 48 units of electives in a single degree program. Electives can be selected from CBE or other Colleges. No more than 10 courses at 1000 level.

Students wish to undertake an out of college elective may contact the relevant College directly.

Student Responsibility:

It is the student's responsibility to select electives in such a way that:

• they satisfy prerequisites for the corresponding course/s.
• they conform to the rules set out in Programs and Courses or if unsure seek advice from the CBE Student Services .

It is the student's responsibility to select the courses appropriate for his/her program.

FDD with Law (ALLB):

Due to incompatibilities between (BUSN1101 and LAWS1204) and (BUSN2101 and LAWS2203), students will need to select two additional courses from the second list of courses (that is, select 24 units from the second list). You will meet the prerequisites of BUSN3014 by studying LAWS1204.

FDD with Commerce:

Bachelor of Accounting cannot be combined with Bachelor of Commerce with an Accounting major.

Electives: 

Students have 48 units of electives in a single degree program. Electives can be selected from CBE or other Colleges. No more than 10 courses at 1000 level.

Students wish to undertake an out of college elective may contact the relevant College directly.

Student Responsibility:

It is the student's responsibility to select electives in such a way that:

• they satisfy prerequisites for the corresponding course/s.
• they conform to the rules set out in Programs and Courses or if unsure seek advice from the CBE Student Services .

It is the student's responsibility to select the courses appropriate for his/her program.

FDD with Law (ALLB):

Due to incompatibilities between (BUSN1101 and LAWS1204) and (BUSN2101 and LAWS2203), students will need to select two additional courses from the second list of courses (that is, select 24 units from the second list). You will meet the prerequisites of BUSN3014 by studying LAWS1204.

FDD with Commerce:

Bachelor of Accounting cannot be combined with Bachelor of Commerce with an Accounting major.

Admission Requirements

Prerequisites

There are no formal program prerequisites. But assumed knowledge is:-ACT: Mathematical Methods (Major) or NSW: HSC Mathematics Advanced or equivalent. More information about interstate subject equivalencies can be found here.

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are combined with an applicant's secondary education results to determine their Selection Rank. ANU offers adjustment factors based on equity, diversity, and/or performance principles, such as for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies.

To be eligible for adjustment factors, you must have:

• achieved a Selection Rank of 70 or more before adjustment factors are applied
• if you have undertaken higher education, completed less than one year full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) of a higher education program
• applied for an eligible ANU bachelor degree program

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Accounting flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from the completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

84 units from the following compulsory courses:

BUSN1001 Business Reporting and Analysis

BUSN1002 Accounting Processes and Systems

BUSN1101 Introduction to Commercial Law

BUSN2011 Management Accounting

BUSN2015 Company Accounting

BUSN2101 Law of Business Entities

BUSN3001 Accounting Theory

BUSN3002 Auditing

BUSN3014 Principles of Tax Law

ECON1101 Microeconomics 1

ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1

FINM1001 Foundations of Finance

INFS2005 Accounting Information Systems

STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

12 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU, which may include courses from the following list:

BUSN2037 Fundamentals of Accounting Data Analytics

BUSN3003 Advanced Management Accounting

BUSN3008 Financial Reporting By Corporations

BUSN3017 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting

BUSN3051 Advanced Accounting Data Analytics

CBEA2001 Indigenous Perspectives in Business and Economics

STAT2008 Regression Modelling

The Bachelor of Visual Arts flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

48 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

ARTH1006 Art History and Curatorial Studies 1: Cultures and Meaning (6 units)

ARTH1007 Art History and Curatorial Studies 2: Vision and Materiality (6 units)

ARTV1020 Drawn from life: Techniques and Perspectives of Observational Drawing (6 units)

ARTV1034 Foundations of Contemporary Arts Practices (6 units)

ARTV2066 Art in Context (6 units)

ARTV3033 Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal (6 units)

ARTV3035 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Project (12 units)

12 units from completion of introductory studio courses from the following list:

ARTV1150 Ceramics 1 (6 units)

ARTV1350 Glass 1 (6 units)

ARTV1550 Painting 1 (6 units)

ARTV1650 Photomedia 1 (6 units)

ARTV1651 Moving Image 1 (6 units)

ARTV1750 Press-based Print 1 (6 units)

ARTV1751 Planographic Print 1 (6 units)

ARTV1850 Sculpture & Spatial Practice 1 (6 units)

ARTV1950 Textiles 1 (6 units)

12 units from completion of intermediate studio courses from the following list:

ARTV2150 Ceramics 2 (6 units)

ARTV2350 Glass 2 (6 units)

ARTV2550 Painting 2 (6 units)

ARTV2650 Photomedia 2 (6 units)

ARTV2651 Moving Image 2 (6 units)

ARTV2750 Press-based Print 2 (6 units)

ARTV2751 Planographic Print 2 (6 units)

ARTV2752 Drawing 2 (6 units)

ARTV2850 Sculpture & Spatial Practice 2 (6 units)

ARTV2950 Textiles 2 (6 units)

6 units from completion of a 2000-level course from the subject area ARTH Art History.

6 units from completion of an engagement and professional practice course from the following list: 

ARTV2027 Professional Practice: Economies and Ecologies in the Australian Cultural Sector (6 units)

ARTV2028 Professional Practices: Internship (6 units)

ARTV2909 The Public Project: Engaging with Institutions and Communities (6 units)

ARTV2921 Environment Studio: Field based Research and Studio Practice in Visual Arts (6 units)

A maximum of 12 units from completion of courses from the following subject areas:  

ARTH Art History

ARTV Visual Arts

DESN Design

MEDN2222?Exquisite Corpse - Insight into the Human Body (6 units)

PHIL2289 Leviathan, Art and Law: Constituting the Body Politic (6 units)

Minors

Bachelor of Accounting Minors

Study Options