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BUS256
Contemporary Financial Accounting

Semester 1, 2011

Unit Information and Learning Guide

Unit coordinator

Dr. David Holloway
Associate Professor
Murdoch Business School

Room: ECL 4.028

Tel: 9360 2704

Fax: 9310 5004
E-mail : D.Holloway@murdoch.edu.au

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© Published by Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, January 2011.

Originally written by: David A. Holloway Date: October 2008
Amended by: David A. Holloway Date: December 2010

This publication is copyright. Except as permitted by the Copyright Act no part of it may in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or any other means be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or be broadcast or transmitted without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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CONTENTS

UNIT INFORMATION

ONE Introduction Page 1
TWO Unit timetable 5
THREE Resources for the unit 6
FOUR Assessment (for internal students) 7
FIVE Assessment (for external students) 8
SIX Final Exam and Grades 9-10
SEVEN Assessment and Plagiarism policies 11-12
EIGHT Student Appeals and Complaints 13

LEARNING GUIDE

Introduction 1
ONE Shareholders equity 2
TWO Consolidations 3-4
THREE Tax effect Accounting 5
FOUR Extractive industries 6
FIVE Leases 7
SIX Financial Instruments 8
SEVEN Public sector accounting 9
EIGHT Asset Impairment and Intangibles 10

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