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### ACADENG 100 - Forms in Academic English
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Focuses on developing an understanding of academic reading and writing, including sentence and paragraph structure and academic vocabulary, and aims to develop strategies for employing these for effective reading and writing of academic texts. Develops an understanding of broad principles and practices of academic discourse at university level. - ### ACADENG 101 - Academic English Writing;)
### ACADENG 101 - Academic English Writing
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Teaches students the skills necessary to write essays of exposition and argument for university purposes. It includes brainstorming, writing an outline, structuring an essay, integrating quotations, summaries and referencing. - ### ACADENG 104 - Academic English for Business;)
### ACADENG 104 - Academic English for Business
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Focuses on core English academic reading and writing skills, and strategies for learning disciplinary vocabulary. Targets the academic literacy needs of students in accessing the undergraduate business curriculum and develops awareness of appropriate text structures and academic style to understand and express business-related concepts in an academic context. - ### ACADENG 210 - Writing Research Reports;)
### ACADENG 210 - Writing Research Reports
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Aims to develop skills needed for writing research and laboratory reports. It covers key stages in writing a standard report and the language patterns associated with each of these stages. Course components include writing the literature review, methodology, results and discussion sections of a report, dissertation or thesis. - ### ACADENG 212 - Special Topic;)
### ACADENG 212 - Special Topic
#### Course - ### ACADINT A01 - Academic Integrity Course;)
### ACADINT A01 - Academic Integrity Course
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An online course designed to increase student knowledge of academic integrity, university rules relating to academic conduct, and the identification and consequences of academic misconduct. Students work through a series of modules, outlining scenarios that they may encounter while studying at university. Each scenario provides information on relevant rules, resources and expected behaviour. - ### ACCTG 101 - Accounting Information;)
### ACCTG 101 - Accounting Information
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Business decisions require accounting information. This course examines the analysis and interpretation of general-purpose financial statements. It assesses financing and investment decisions and covers the role of accounting information to support planning and control. - ### ACCTG 102 - Accounting Concepts;)
### ACCTG 102 - Accounting Concepts
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Basic principles and concepts of accounting that underlie the production of information for internal and external reporting. This course provides the technical platform for second year courses in financial and management accounting, finance, and accounting information systems. - ### ACCTG 151G - Financial Literacy;)
### ACCTG 151G - Financial Literacy
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People who understand the basic principles of finance are likely to get much more mileage out of their money – whether spending, borrowing, saving or investing – than those who do not. Develop an understanding of how to be in control of spending and saving; understand borrowing; make informed investment decisions; know broadly what to insure and what not to; recognise scams and consider whether money is the key to happiness. - ### ACCTG 211 - Financial Accounting;)
### ACCTG 211 - Financial Accounting
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Develops an understanding of factors influencing the development of New Zealand International Financial Reporting Standards (NZ IFRS). Applies a selection of NZ IFRS including accounting for leases, accounting for business combinations, and preparing group financial statements. - ### ACCTG 221 - Cost and Management Accounting;)
### ACCTG 221 - Cost and Management Accounting
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Budgets and standards, costing systems, cost information for decision-making and control, performance appraisal, and contemporary related issues. - ### ACCTG 222 - Accounting Information Systems;)
### ACCTG 222 - Accounting Information Systems
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Encompasses the development and distribution of economic information about organisations for internal and external decision-making. Major themes include: objectives and procedures of internal control, the database approach to data management, data modelling, typical business documents and reports and proper system documentation through data flow diagrams and flowcharts. - ### ACCTG 300 - Directed Study;)
### ACCTG 300 - Directed Study
#### Course - ### ACCTG 311 - Financial Accounting;)
### ACCTG 311 - Financial Accounting
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Explanatory and prescriptive theories of accounting provide the context for an examination of the determinants of financial reporting practice in New Zealand with special reference to accounting for pensions, foreign currency, deferred tax and financial instruments. Issues in international accounting and professional ethics are also addressed. - ### ACCTG 312 - Auditing;)
### ACCTG 312 - Auditing
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An introduction to the audit of financial statements. The objective of an audit is to add credibility to the information contained in the financial statements. Emphasises the auditor's process in determining the nature and amount of evidence necessary to support management's assertions and providing a report expressing the auditor's opinion on the fair presentation of the client's financial statements. - ### ACCTG 321 - Strategic Management Accounting;)
### ACCTG 321 - Strategic Management Accounting
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A study of the design of revenue and cost management systems to facilitate strategic decisions. This includes activity-based costing and activity-based management. The learning environment is student-centred with the seminar leader's role being that of facilitator rather than lecturer. Students work not only as individuals but also in teams. The learning environment is a combination of lectures, case studies and related readings. - ### ACCTG 323 - Performance Measurement and Evaluation;)
### ACCTG 323 - Performance Measurement and Evaluation
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The design of performance measurement frameworks such as the Balanced Scorecard incorporating strategy maps and alignment principles. Methods of performance analysis will cover ratios, weighting systems and Data Envelopment Analysis. Evaluation principles and methods will include internal audit perspectives around project and programme evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, randomised control tests and value-for-money. - ### ACCTG 331 - Revenue and Cost Management;)
### ACCTG 331 - Revenue and Cost Management
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Revenue management concepts and techniques and their support by cost management systems are studied with particular reference to service organisations. The range of services encompasses both private and public sector organisations. Components include: yield management, pricing, linear programming, project management, valuation principles and methodologies. - ### ACCTG 371 - Financial Statement Analysis;)
### ACCTG 371 - Financial Statement Analysis
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How is financial statement information used to evaluate a firm's performance, risk and value? An opportunity to examine this question and to gain experience in evaluating performance, assessing risk and estimating value. - ### ACCTG 381 - Special Topic;)
### ACCTG 381 - Special Topic
#### Course - ### ACCTG 382 - Special Topic;)
### ACCTG 382 - Special Topic
#### Course - ### ACCTG 701 - Research Methods in Accounting;)
### ACCTG 701 - Research Methods in Accounting
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The theory and application of modern research methods in accounting. The content will include the philosophy, process and design of scientific research. Prior knowledge of basic statistical techniques is assumed. - ### ACCTG 702 - Governance Issues in Accounting;)
### ACCTG 702 - Governance Issues in Accounting
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An introduction to the economic literatures relating to property rights, transaction cost economics, and agency theory. Application of these notions to the way in which organisations are structured. Identification of why some transactions are internalised and some are undertaken through markets. The application of these ideas to financial and managerial accounting. - ### ACCTG 703 - Directed Study;)
### ACCTG 703 - Directed Study
#### Course - ### ACCTG 707 - Applied Accounting Research - Level 9;)
### ACCTG 707 - Applied Accounting Research - Level 9
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Provides an overview and application of contemporary theories and research practices in a chosen accounting specialist field through an independently authored and presented research project. - ### ACCTG 708 - Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting;)
### ACCTG 708 - Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting
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Investigates key research and practical issues in forensic accounting and fraud auditing. Identifies and examines critical components of the financial and legal landscape, aimed at detecting, preventing, and investigating financial fraud and misconduct. - ### ACCTG 709 - Sustainability Accounting Research;)
### ACCTG 709 - Sustainability Accounting Research
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Examines the theoretical and empirical literature on sustainability accounting, including social and environmental reporting, assurance, and internal accounting to support external reporting. - ### ACCTG 711 - Financial Accounting Research;)
### ACCTG 711 - Financial Accounting Research
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A study of the contracting-cost theories of accounting policy choice and the related empirical literature. It focuses on agency and efficient contracting explanations for accounting choice. In particular, the course explores the role of accounting in contracts between parties to the firm (e.g., manager, shareholders, debtholders, customers etc). The political process is also analysed to determine the impact on accounting policy choice. Incentives for managers to manipulate earnings under various economic settings are examined and the implications of this behaviour for accounting policy makers are analysed. - ### ACCTG 714 - Contemporary Auditing Research;)
### ACCTG 714 - Contemporary Auditing Research
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An examination of the theoretical and empirical literature relating to the demand and supply of auditing, theoretical support for auditing activity, measures of audit quality and related topics. - ### ACCTG 721 - Research in Management Control;)
### ACCTG 721 - Research in Management Control
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Provides an insight into the theoretical and empirical literature relating to management planning and control in private and public sector organisations. Explores the relationship between strategy, organisation design, and performance measurement and evaluation. - ### ACCTG 722 - Research in Revenue and Cost Management;)
### ACCTG 722 - Research in Revenue and Cost Management
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An examination of revenue and cost management arising from changes in competitive environments. Includes recent research on the design of revenue and cost management systems including developments such as theory of constraints in manufacturing, service and public sector organisations. - ### ACCTG 759 - Applied Research Consultancy Project - Level 9;)
### ACCTG 759 - Applied Research Consultancy Project - Level 9
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An applied practical opportunity for students to work with a New Zealand or international business or organisation in a consulting capacity to apply their advanced disciplinary knowledge and to develop research-informed strategic recommendations for a client. - ### ACCTG 771 - Accounting Information and Capital Markets;)
### ACCTG 771 - Accounting Information and Capital Markets
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The study of issues in evaluating accounting information and the use of accounting information by investors and analysts. This includes the examination of the empirical relationship between accounting earnings and share prices and the relationship between financial statement analysis and market efficiency. Perceived market failures will be analysed. - ### ACCTG 780 - Special Topic: Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting;)
### ACCTG 780 - Special Topic: Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting
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Examines the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of sustainability accounting and integrated reporting and the determinants for the supply and demand for non-financial reporting and how this has evolved over time. - ### ACCTG 781 - Special Topic: Efficiency and Productivity Measurement;)
### ACCTG 781 - Special Topic: Efficiency and Productivity Measurement
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Productivity and efficiency are core fundamentals across the spectrum encompassing individuals, organisations and economies. This course provides a theoretical structure for efficiency and productivity measurement and examines empirical models for estimating efficiency and productivity and analysing their underlying determinants. - ### ACCTG 782 - Special Topic;)
### ACCTG 782 - Special Topic
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