Excellent Unit. A Wam Booster to be honest. I didn't do Accounting in High School but this unit made it really interesting. T.K was the lecturer and he would put in so much energy and passion into teaching the unit, he needs a raise for sure. This unit is about 70% theory and 30% application, with the application part being really easy having to remember 3-4 small formulas. If you summarise and memorise the theory from the unit's lectures, you will be set to get a high score for the exam as it was very doable. The 2 assignments worth 15% were essays and they were easy to do well in. The in-class presentation worth 10% was also very easy to get marks in. The more difficult assessment for this unit was the online mid-semester test worth 10% and the final exam worth 50%. But with effort and participation, this unit is fairly easy to score well in particularly if you enjoy theory-based subjects.

the unit itself is quite interesting but the lectures are very boring and its hard to engage. but if you like accounting, this unit is a good way to start. it is not hard

I loved Accounting in School, but this subject made Accounting so dry. The tutor (Bob) was unnecessarily nasty and mean, and really degraded the confidence of students. On weeks that attendance was not compulsory, barely anybody showed up due to how rude he was. The unit isn't too hard if you have prior accounting knowledge, but having a 3 hour workshop and no lectures or tutorials was quite draining (losing focus in the last hour).

The subject deals with introductory managerial accounting core concepts and leads to the understanding of complex financial scenarios by developing expertise of the subject. I recommend to go through the text book, lecture slides and exercises besides tutorial questions.

Content is quite easy but the delivery of it and the structure isn't too great. Summed up pre well below. Can access the pdf file for the textbook from the library website which saves $60 and google is a lifesaver. The assessments are pretty weird although the quizzes and in-class tests weren't ridiculously hard and you can achieve a pass without a huge amount of work. Reflective notes were stupid but if you get what they want you can get an alright mark. End of unit exam was actually quite straightforward although we weren't given any resources to practice, so make sure you take half decent notes.

The content itself isn't that bad but the structure of the subject is terrible. Instead of the regular tute/lecture this subject has a 3 hour work shop that rushes through content so much you don't learn anything. Most of the learning is done with online modules that take 2-4 hours to do and a pdf textbook that costs $60 with no hard copy available (you literally have to pay $60 for a file, a file in which division and multiplication signs are left out of crucial formulas). This textbook also has no solutions to any of the questions and the chief examiner didn't provide us with a single practice test for the 2 mid-semester tests nor the exam. The quizzes each week are terrible because of the wide variety of questions giving some people really easy quizzes and others really hard ones which is not fair. You also have to write 3 reflective notes for this unit which are by far the worst form of assessment because they ask you to explain how accounting changed your life as well as write down content. They give you only 200 words to do it in and then mark you down when you don't explain enough. Furthermore, apparently the people who run this unit are too incompetent with technology and force you to print every assignment you hand in which by my calculations, is a waste of approximately 4000 sheets of paper for nothing. All in all, just do financial accounting because it's a lot less hours and a lot less inefficiency and stupidity.

The above comment pretty much (vulgarly) sums up my problems with this unit. Although the content is very interesting, I find that the testing methods implemented are not an accurate way to test student ability. I hope they make the exam better and more straightforward than the mid semester test.

In Semester 1 2016 apparently 'too many people passed'. So this semester, they have decided to f*** it up by making the mid semester test insanely difficult. And according to John Gerrand (unit coordinator), the exam isn't going to be any easier. What's more, the unit coordinators decided not to standardise the marks of the mid semester test after AROUND (IF NOT MORE) THAN HALF OF THE COHORT FAILED (including myself - a straight HD student on a scholarship. Not meaning to brag at all, but if someone of my work ethic and academic capability failed, then there is definitely something wrong with the unit). The purpose of university is to educate the future generation, not deem them as worthless beings who should be treated like garbage (which I'm pretty sure 90% of the cohort would prefer being treated like that than they way the unit coordinators have treated them so far). Message to future students - if you are considering doing ACC1200 to dodge financial accounting... DON'T. This is what I did and so far, it has been the biggest regret of my semester