Year 12 · WACE / Accounting and Finance
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Topics in the resource inventory
- Short- and long-term finance products and asset-management principles
- Management vs financial accounting, internal vs external reporting and the role of the accountant
- Cost concepts and classifications: behaviour, cost object, product/period, past/future
- Job order costing: direct costs, predetermined overhead rates, unit cost and quotation price
- Standard costing and variance analysis: materials price/usage, labour rate/efficiency
- CVP for single and multi-product firms: contribution, break-even, margin of safety, target profit
- CVP decisions: make or buy, closing a segment, special orders, sensitivity and capacity
- Master budget, debtors' and creditors' schedules and the cash budget
- Budgeted income statements, cash vs accrual, performance reports and business planning
- Capital investment decisions: time value of money, net cash flows, NPV and payback
- Internal audit and control, insolvency, climate-related risks and ethical issues
- Company characteristics and the Corporations Act 2001
- Regulators (ASIC, IASB, ISSB, AASB, ASX), accounting standards and external audit
- The Conceptual Framework: reporting entity, qualitative characteristics, recognition criteria
- Company equity transactions: share issues, issue costs, bonus issues, dividends, retained earnings
- Balance day adjustments, income tax and the statement of comprehensive income
- Statement of financial position, statement of changes in equity and notes to the accounts
- Statement of cash flows (AASB 107, direct method) and interpreting cash movements
- Ratio preparation and interpretation and the limits of financial statement analysis
- AASB S2 climate-related disclosures and sustainability reporting: greenwashing and bluewashing
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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