Advanced Financial Accounting Course Outline Paper

Department of Career and Management Studies www.mcgill.ca/conted-cms/ Course Outline

Course Name: Advanced Financial Accounting III ACCT 453 / CCFC 513-771

Instructor: Jim Wilson C.A. [e-mail]
Course Assistant Mathew Goldsmith [e-mail]
Email: The instructors can be reached from the email tool within WebCT Contact Information: Heico 2004 Member Inc. c/o Ivaco Rolling Mills
1040 County Road 17
L’Original, Ontario K0B 1K0
613-675-6887
[e-mail]

Course Objectives: To provide the students with a thorough and detailed understanding of the underlying concepts and accounting treatment of inter-corporate long-term investments (consolidations and business combinations).
- Handbook Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (specific sections indicated on the syllabus)

Evaluation: Final grades will be determined as follows:

Mid-term exam 30% Final exam 70%

Although the completion of weekly assignments does not factor into the final grade, their importance cannot be over emphasized. The lectures provide the basic knowledge and the assigned problems build on that knowledge. Completion of these assignments is an absolute minimum for the student to gain an understanding of the subject matter. Assignments will be reviewed in class.

Students are responsible for all materials for the exams, whether or not it is covered in class. Exams will be a combination of all types of questions based on all sources, and students may be required to integrate theoretical concepts from the text to substantiate their arguments.

No make-up tests or make-up assignments are allowed in this course.

“In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the University’s control, the content and/or evaluation scheme in this course is subject to change.”

Course Requirements:
Assignments Pickup: Marked assignments cannot be picked up from the offices at Continuing Education, therefore if your marked assignments are not available in class before the end of term you must submit a self-addressed stamped envelope to you instructor or these assignments will not be returned. Remember to keep a photocopy or back-up of your creative work before it is handed in to your instructor.

Email Policy: E-mail is one of the official means of communication between McGill University and its students. As with all official University communications, it is the student's responsibility to ensure that time-critical e-mail is accessed, read, and acted upon in a timely fashion. If a student chooses to forward University e-mail to another e-mail mailbox, it is that student's responsibility to ensure that the alternate account is viable.
Please note that to protect the privacy of the students, the University will only reply to the students on their McGill e-mail account.

General Grading System: The grading will be as follows;
Graduate Level (please note that the highlighted area is average grade