306362 (v.1) Accounting (Quantitative Methods) 516

Area:

School of Accounting

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Seminar:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Use of key statistical concepts in planning, performance measurements and accounting research. Elementary probability and its application in cost volume profit analysis. Probability distribution, hypothesis testing in accounting research, time series analysis in budgeting, estimate and examine cost functions using regression and correlation analyses, other cost accounting requirements for statistical analysis.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

080100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2007	Mktg Inst of S'pore	Trimester 1A	Y
2007	Open University HK	Trimester 2A	Y
2007	Sydney Campus	Semester 1S	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External