Level 3 Accounting
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr R. Shankar.
Objectives: To promote knowledge and understanding of accounting as a financial language for partnerships and companies that may be service, trading or manufacturing businesses.
Course Content:
- Process financial information for partnerships and/or companies
- Process financial information for a manufacturing job-cost subsystem
- Report financial information for partnerships and/or companies
- Prepare a report which analyses and interprets a company’s financial report for external users
- Explain and prepare information for management decision making.
Future Areas of interest and study:
Commerce and Business degrees at Universities and Polytechnics, chartered accountants, auditing, data processing services, taxation services, management, general business/administration work, teaching, marketing, banking.
Course Costs and Equipment/ Stationery requirements
We strongly recommend the purchase of an Accounting workbook as a learning enhancement for around $40.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
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NZQA Info
Accounting 3.2 - Demonstrate understanding of accounting for partnerships
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Accounting 3.3 - Demonstrate understanding of company financial statement preparation
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Accounting 3.4 - Prepare a report for an external user that interprets the annual report of a New Zealand reporting entity
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Accounting 3.5 - Demonstrate understanding of management accounting to inform decision-making
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Accounting 3.6 - Demonstrate understanding of a job cost subsystem for an entity
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 22
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
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We aim to enable every student to have the course that they prefer, however, some courses have limited places or pre-requisits that may restrict the student's choice.