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This unit is for non-Indigenous students. It explores the cultural and environmental patterns of Indigenous social health (focusing on Australian and S-W Pacific region) particularly as they relate to traditional healing and other Indigenous health strategies, the land, recent strategies to address Indigenous health issues, and the relationship between health and development. Skills training in culturally appropriate interventions.
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Indigenous identity is a requirement for enrolment. The unit explores the cultural and environmental patterns of Indigenous social health (focusing on Australian and S-W Pacific region) particularly as they relate to traditional healing and other Indigenous health strategies, the land, recent strategies to address Indigenous health issues, and the relationship between health and development. Skills development.
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This unit commences with an overview and critical analysis of the methodology of contemporary research in finance. The balance of the unit examines theoretical and empirical issues related to the pricing of securities in financial markets.
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This unit examines current techniques for measuring and managing the financial risk faced by corporates and financial institutions, with an emphasis on the practical use of derivative financial products such as forwards, futures, swaps and options to manage risk.
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This unit requires students to attend the Research Seminar Series of the Accounting and Finance Department. Students taking this unit will normally also be enrolled in ACCG893 Research Methodology or ACCG805 Research Methodology in Finance. There are seminars over the year, half in each semester. The seminars range over a variety of areas and topics in accounting, auditing, accounting information systems and finance and are presented by local, interstate and overseas academics and researchers.
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This unit begins with the revision of basic financial concepts, various valuation methods, risk and return, investment decisions and capital budgeting problems students have previously learned in their first finance course. More complicated theoretical issues and analytical techniques such as sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo, decision trees, and real options will follow, leading to the completion of a practical project.
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This unit is primarily concerned with the practical application of audit techniques to both audit and audit-related services. The major portion of the unit will cover the objectives of an external financial audit and the methods used by auditors to achieve those objectives, such as audit planning, testing and evaluation of results.
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(V2 session dates: 7 December 2009 - 12 February 2010)
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This unit provides an understanding of the theory, empirical evidence and practice of security selection. Models of security pricing are reviewed during the first weeks of the semester. Techniques are then considered to enable the student to select superior equity investments. The semester concludes with a review of investment in fixed interest securities.
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The objective of this unit is to increase the student's ability to recognise, describe, analyse and design information systems from a business professional's viewpoint. Achievement of this objective will make the student more able to play an effective part in information system development, management and use, and more able to communicate effectively with information system professionals.
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This unit examines how management accounting operates within an organisation's overall control system and how it adapts in response to strategic change. Management accounting techniques such as costing, performance evaluation and capital budgeting will all be shown to be used differently according to the strategic direction of the organisation.
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This unit is concerned with the design and operation of management control systems, in particular, accounting-related controls. There are two main aspects to understanding accounting-related controls operations: control techniques and the behavioural implications of those techniques.
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This unit teaches students how to analyse and value a business. Students are taught the steps in business analysis: examining the state of the economy, the industry and the business on a descriptive level, analysing the business's accounting policies, evaluating its financial position using accounting ratios and other analytical tools, forecasting the business's financial statements and finally using a variety of techniques to value the business on the basis of the preceding steps so that an investment decision can be made.
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This unit constitutes the CPA program of CPA Australia.
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This unit constitutes the CA program of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
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This unit is concerned with issues in both financial and management accounting in international contexts. Particular attention is given to the impact of national culture and to how an understanding of cultural differences provides insights into cross-national differences. Current issues in accounting standard-setting in an international context including the debate on international harmonisation are also examined.
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This unit provides an overview of the operation of the capital markets in Australia. The financial institutions are described and the securities offered by these institutions are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the financial instruments available to companies and investors from the equity, debt and derivative markets.
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This unit examines the many techniques commonly employed in assessing the value of whole businesses and individual parts of businesses, how to select an appropriate technique for a particular valuation task, and how to apply the technique in practice.
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This unit provides a basis for effective management of investment portfolios. The relevance of finance theory to the practice of portfolio management is a feature of this unit. Techniques of portfolio management are applied using a simulation.
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This unit will cover all major areas of financial planning and explore planning strategies using a case study approach covering the areas of taxation, managed and listed investments, the superannuation environment and self management, risk management, retirement and estate planning.
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This unit is designed for students who are interested in gaining an understanding of performance measurement systems used in contemporary organisations to achieve their organisational objectives successfully. The unit critically examines issues related to integrating performance measurement systems and strategy implementation, measuring performance of business units and employees, and linking performance measurement to reward systems.
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This unit examines the impact that taxation considerations have in the international business environment. Recent trends in the taxation of international transactions will also be identified and critiqued. To give the unit a practical focus, case studies of typical investment tax problems will be examined.
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This unit examines various techniques of financial fraud prevention, investigation and detection. Topics will include: motivations for financial fraud, symptoms of financial fraud, financial statement fraud, evidence collection and evaluation, legal report writing, interviewing witnesses and perpetrators, fraud prevention. Case studies will be used.
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The principal aim of the unit is to provide students with an introduction to some of the main ethical issues raised by the activities of the business and corporate sphere, both in relation to the societies and environments within which they operate, and in relation to individuals employed within corporations
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This unit provides an introduction to modern economic analysis. The first half of the unit is devoted to macroeconomics which examines in the context of the Australian economy the problems associated with inflation, unemployment and balance of payments, while the second half deals with a study of the theory and application of microeconomics.
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