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AFM101 Introduction to Financial Accounting

Updated: 12 November 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Armidale Summer Semester Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
06 April 2010 08 April 2010 Non-Mandatory
12 September 2010 14 September 2010 Non-Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions AFM217 or AFM317
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Brent Gregory (bgregory@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

A unit of lectures and tutorials providing a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of financial accounting. The unit provides a detailed explanation of the double entry framework used to represent the activities and affairs of businesses/firms in monetary terms. The conventional rules to recognise and measure the financial effects of economic events are examined. Attention is given to the design and operation of procedures to record, store, control and summarise data in accounting systems. This unit is also taught in the Summer Semester period.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Financial Accounting
ISBN: 9781442505087
Horngren, C.T., Best, P., Fraser, D. and Willett, R. Pearson Education 6th ed. 2009
Text refers to: Semester 1 and Summer Semester , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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