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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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