ACCTING 7023MELB - Advanced Financial Accounting (M)

This course covers advanced financial reporting issues and accounting methods for company accounting. It introduces different types of inter-entity relationships and related accounting issues and accounting treatments. Students will learn how to prepare, read, analyse and evaluate the consolidated financial statements based on the guidelines provided under the relevant Accounting Standards. Students are required to undertake a research project where students will develop skills to research a wide variety of information sources including the relevant Act and Australian Accounting Standards and to integrate the research output with their theoretical and technical knowledge to understand and analyse issues in relation to business combinations. Topics include revision of company accounting, related party disclosures, overview of investment accounting standards, accounting for business combinations and associates, consolidation methods, non-controlling interest, foreign currency transactions, translation of foreign currency financial statements, hedge accounting and liquidation.