Program Director Contact Details:
Project Management
Name: Professor Vernon Ireland
Phone: +61 411 153 861

Teaching Staff:
Name: Anton Jordaan

Short Bio:
Anton Jordaan was originally trained as an accountant and tax specialist.

Five years after setting up an accounting and tax consultancy, he sold his share to his

partners and set out to establish, grow and harvest a number of business ventures in the education and training space.

In subsequent years, one of his businesses was acquired by a stock exchange listed

company; and a few years later his business was involved in an IPO. Following the IPO he served as a director of this newly listed company for 2 years.

In addition to the strategic leadership and financial roles over the years, Anton has maintained an interest in education and training, and has 20+ years teaching experience in tertiary, vocational and corporate education environments. He has delivered programs in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Netherlands, South Africa, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Canada and Australia.

After attaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting, he completed an Honours degree in Accounting, a Master of Commerce degree in Business Management, a MBA degree and a Master of Advanced Business Practice degree. He is currently completing a PhD in Entrepreneurship at The University of Adelaide. He is a member of CPA Australia.

Email: anton.jordaan@adelaide.edu.au

Phone: As I travel overseas often, email is my preferred method of contact.

The key learning objectives of this course are:

1. A pragmatic introduction to accounting concepts and practice.
2. Demonstrate a basic understanding and ability to understand accrual accounting and financial statements.
3. Interpret and use financial and management accounting reports at a managerial level.
4. Understand several internal management reporting concepts, such as costing systems, financial planning and budgeting, breakeven, contribution margin and cost-volume-profit analysis.
5. Understand concepts of financial management including short-term liquidity and management of working capital.
6. Understand the links between accounting and planning, control, accountability and decision making functions within organisations.
7. Understand the decision making process for long-term investments in project management and innovative new ventures.
8. Understand the fundamentals of financing new and innovative projects or ventures.
9. Understanding of interpretation and use of financial and management accounting reports at a decision making or at a managerial level.
10. Undertaking group assignments (if applicable) will take learning into the realm of actual decision making and require the sharing of tasks, schedules, co-ordination of work between people.

Text book:
Atrill, P., McLaney, E., Harvey, D. & Jenner, M. (2011). Accounting: an introduction (5th Ed). Frenchs Forest NSW: Pearson Education Australia.

Make sure you obtain the Australian edition (The 4th edition will also suffice)

Other useful texts and references are:
Atrill, P. 2009. Management Accounting for Decision Makers. FT Prentice Hall. 6^th Edition

Dagwell, R.,Wines, G.,Lambert, C. 2012. Corporate Accounting in Australia. Pearson Australia.

Project Finance Magazine. Complete package of news, analysis, comment and statistics. All seamlessly delivered through traditional and modern media channels. Subscription includes 10 print issues a year, industry sector tailored alerts delivered direct to mobile device or PC, weekly e-news alert, full access to Project Finance magazine online including fully searchable archive dating back to 1999. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/

Library Resources
The University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library provides a range of learning resources including texts, journals, periodicals, magazines, and access to online databases and information services. It also offers a virtual library which is accessible via the University’s website. The University Library web page is: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/ 
From this link, you are able to access the Library's electronic resources.

Other resources
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