Location: Office 13.43, Level 13, Building: Nexus10, 1 Pulteney Street
email: chelsea.liu@adelaide.edu.au
Office hours: to be advised

Course Website: www.myuni.adelaide.edu.au

1. Pre-recorded Lecture Videos (1 hour):

- provide basic concepts / methods / content for each topic;
- published on MyUni one week prior to the face-to-face lecture;
- must be watched BEFORE attending the face-to-face lecture and tutorial each week.

2. Flipped Classroom Lectures (2 hours):

- cover advanced content that builds on the pre-recorded lectures;
- involve flipped-classroom activities and problem-solving (published on MyUni prior to the lectures).

3. Tutorials (1 hour):

- additional practice questions and problem-solving.

PLEASE NOTE: Financial Accounting II is a pre-requisite for Corporate Accounting III as this course builds on the material covered in that subject. If you have not successfully completed Financial Accounting II, you will NOT be permitted to enrol in Corporate Accounting III.

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Describe the different types of relationships amongst business entities and identify these relationships for financial reporting purposes;

2. Determine the ‘reporting entities’ for each inter-entity relationship, and explain the appropriate accounting policy choices.

3. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of relevant accounting standards and the ability to apply them to solve practical problems that arise from inter-entity relationships.

4. Select the appropriate accounting techniques, as prescribed by the relevant accounting standards, and perform the accounting treatment for each type of inter-entity relationship (including preparing consolidated financial statements).

5. Discuss the strategic, legal, and assurance issues associated with establishing inter-entity relationships, and generate recommendations.

6. Communicate accounting policy choices and strategic recommendations and justify conclusions with reference to relevant laws and accounting standards.

Textbooks:

Leo,K., Knapp, J.,, McGowan, S., and Sweeting, J., Company Accounting, 11th Edition, 2018, J. Wiley and Sons, Australia. 
 
2019 Accounting Handbook / Financial Reporting Handbook
[either the CPA Australia version or the ICAA version is acceptable. E-books (on iPads or similar devices) cannot be taken into exams]. 

You are permitted to take your handbook into the final exam of this course but the handbook must not contain any writing, notes, tabs, stickers, inserts or any other form of unauthorised materials. Underlining and highlighting are permitted.

You are advised not to use a prior edition of the handbook. No marks will be awarded if references are made to outdated sections of the accounting standards.

Readings:

Additional compulsory readings in the form of Harvard Business Publishing Cases, short articles, or book chapters have been provided on MyUni to either elaborate on, or supplement, items in the textbook.  In some cases, there are no relevant readings in the textbook and you will need to use the readings provided on MyUni.

Reading is a very important mechanism for your learning in this course. Lectures will only serve to highlight the key points in each topic, which are to be supplemented by completing the prescribed readings. Everything covered in the prescribed readings is potentially examinable.

See MyUni course website for recommended resources.

Course materials for each topic are distributed online via the MyUni course website.

Lectures will be recorded and posted on the MyUni course site.

TEACHING & LEARNING MODES

A coherent course structure that develops from basic concepts about the nature of different inter-entity relationships to consider in detail the accounting implications of those different levels of relationship. All topics link together to build up an overall picture of the major financial reporting issues associated with inter-related entities.

For each topic of this course, the following steps are designed to enable you to maximise your learning efficiency and effectiveness:

Stage I: Basic Materials and Knowledge

1. Pre-Classroom Recorded Lecture Videos

- The pre-recorded videos will cover the fundamental concepts and methods, and provide background knowledge that can be used to help address practical accounting problems.
- Please ensure that you watch the pre-recorded lecture BEFORE attending the face-to-face flipped classroom lectures.
- The pre-recorded lectures will be published on MyUni one week prior to the face-to-face lecture.
- You will be required to complete a quiz after viewing the pre-recorded lectures (see Assessment Information).

Readings
- Please also ensure that you complete the readings before attending the lectures.
- Read as widely as possible so that you are best equipped to discuss and resolve the relevant accounting policy problems associated with inter-entity relationships. It is not possible to cover in lectures all the information associated with the complex topics we will address. All readings are potentially examinable.

Stage II: Advanced Instructions and Application

2. Flipped Classroom Lectures

- The flipped classroom lectures provide an opportunity to build on the content covered in the lecture videos, and a chance for you to gain hands-on experience of solving accounting problems and team-working.
- You will ONLY be able to follow the content in the flipped classroom lectures IF you have watched the pre-recorded videos.
- The advanced lecture materials and problem questions will be posted on MyUni prior to the lectures. The face-to-face lectures will be recorded and posted on MyUni.

3. Tutorials

- Allow you to explore issues and material in an interactive group setting, receive feedback and guidance, and develop the various competencies.
- Please attempt your tutorial questions BEFORE attending the tutorials, which is vital to your successful completion of this course.
- If you have not prepared beforehand you will have significant difficulties in understanding what is going on in the tutorials.

Stage III: Further Feedback

4. Self-Study Questions - help you to further solidify your understanding of each topic. Discussion Boards and Consultation Times are available for you to resolve any remaining queries.

Contact details and consultation times for all tutors in the course will be available on the MyUni course site.

5. In-lecture activities, weekly quizzes, the assignment and the mid-semester examination - these activities allow you to practice and improve your communication skills and your ability to present and justify arguments and decisions as well as providing you with timely feedback on your understanding of the course material.

TUTORIAL ENROLMENTS

Tutorials are scheduled for Week 2 to Week 13.

Students must attend the tutorial in which they are enrolled. Lecturers and tutors do not have the authority to override the university enrolment system. If you attend a tutorial in which you are not enrolled, you may be asked to leave.

WORKLOAD

The University expects full-time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies. This means that you are expected to commit approximately 9 hours for a three-unit course for private study outside of your regular classes.

Students in this course are expected to attend all lectures throughout the semester and are required to attend one tutorial class each week.

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Our primary focus will be upon groups of corporate entities in the ‘for-profit’ sector but much of the material is equally relevant to non-incorporated entities and entities in the public and not-for-profit sectors. Material relating to all of these sectors and types of entities will be addressed and assessable. This course has a central theme which looks at the accounting associated with different types of inter- entity groups. In addition to the introduction (Topic 1), the course is divided into three broad sections which explore both the relevant theoretical and practical aspects of this theme. The first section (Topics 2 and 3) describes the way in which inter-entity relationships might be formed – so-called ‘business combinations’ in which one entity might, for example, purchase all the share equity or, alternatively, the individual assets and liabilities that collectively form a ‘business’ of another entity. This part of the course deals with issues such as how the acquisition should be measured and recorded and the treatment of any goodwill that might arise on the acquisition. Some information is also provided about how acquisitions are made in practice and relevant legal obligations. All of this material is extremely important to understanding the topics covered in the second part of the course.

The second section of the course deals with the various accounting implications that arise once a group of entities is established (Topics 4 – 6). As each entity might have its own legal status, it will also have its own set of financial statements (even if only for internal management purposes). However, if the related entities are essentially controlled by another, then this ‘economic entity’ (the group of entities) is also a ‘reporting entity’ for which we prepare a collective set of financial statements; the ‘group’ or ‘consolidated’ financial statements. Although in principle the consolidated financial statements are basically all the individual financial statements added together, many adjustments are required to prepare the consolidated Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Comprehensive Income, and Statement of Cash Flows. As the group is effectively treated as though it is one entity, it is necessary to ensure that when the consolidated financial statements are prepared, any transactions between the members of the group are not included – e.g., if one member of the group sells inventory to another member, then the inter-company sale and purchase have to be removed (‘eliminated’) when preparing the consolidated income statement.

Apart from inter-company transactions we will also be exploring how to account for groups of entities where the entity in control does not fully own all the equity of another controlled entity (the presence of so-called ‘non-controlling interests’ or ‘outside equity interests’) (Topic 7). In addition, we will explore those investments in other entities where there is either ‘significant influence’ but not control (Topic 8) or where there is ‘joint control’ (i.e., two entities have equal amounts of influence over another) (Topic 9). The second section of the course will conclude with a study of how to translate the financial statements of overseas entities into the group’s presentation currency (Topic 10).

The third section of the course (Topic 11) briefly explores some special issues associated with the analysis of group financial statements such as segment reporting and related party transactions.

COURSE TOPICS:

This course will cover the following topics. For more details please refer to the 'Course Information' tab on the MyUni course site.

Topic 1 - Inter-entity relationships & Accounting for simple share investments

Topic 2 - Due Diligence in Business Acquisitions & Takeover and Competition Laws

Topic 3 - Business Combinations through acquiring assets and liabilities

Topic 4 - Consolidation - Introduction(the concept of control)

Topic 5 - Consolidation - Wholly Owned Subsidiaries

Topic 6 - Consolidation - Intra-Group Transactions (weeks 7-8)

Topic 7 - Consolidation - Non-Controlling Interest

Topic 8 - Investments in Associates - Equity Accounting

Topics 9 and 10 - Accounting for Joint Arrangements & Foreign Currency Translation

Topic 11 - Segment Reporting & Related Party Disclosures.

Note: the relevant readings and tutorial activities for each topic are provided on separate topic outline handouts provided on the MyUni site for this course.

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

As this is a course in advanced accounting, you are expected to have a strong understanding of material covered in prior related courses. Accounting courses build on one another and so prior accounting studies inevitably are examinable in this course, e.g., accounting for income tax. As a minimum, you are expected to be already familiar with specific topics covered in chapters 1 -3, 5 - 6, 9 and 11 of the textbook.

The detailed requirements of each assessment item will be posted on the MyUni site for this course.

The assessment components are as follows:

Assessment Task	Weighting	Learning Outcome
Weekly Pre-Lecture Quizzes	15%	1-5
Assignment	15%	2,3,5,6
Mid-Semester Exam	20%	1-4
Final Exam	50%	1-6
Total	100%

Students can only change their tutorial enrolments through Access Adelaide. Lecturers and tutors do not have the authority to override the university enrolment system. If you attend a tutorial in which you are not enrolled, you might be asked to leave.

Detailed requirements of each assessment item will be posted on the MyUni site for this course.

Weekly Pre-Lecture Quizzes 15%

Details: Each week you will be required to complete a pre-lecture quiz AFTER watching the recorded lecture series and completing the readings but BEFORE attending the face-to-face Flipped Classroom Lecture.

Due Date: Weeks 1-12 (due at the start of the lecture each week).

Your 3 lowest quiz scores will be dropped in calculating your final grade. Consequently, no further extensions or allowances will be granted on medical or compassionate grounds (except for in accordance with a Disability Access Plan issued by the University's Counselling and Disabilities Services).

Course Learning Outcome: 1 - 5

Assignment 15%

Details: This assignment must be done in teams of three students. Further details are provided in the assignment instructions, which can be found under the ‘Assignments’ Folder on the MyUni course site.

Due Date: To Be Advised (TBA)

Course Learning Outcome: 2, 3, 5 & 6

Mid-Semester Exam 20%

Details: The exam will be held in Bonython Hall (Date and Time TBA). Details to be provided on a separate notice in the ‘Assessment Information’ Folder on the MyUni course site.

Course Learning Outcome: 1 - 4

Final Exam 50%

Details: Duration of 3 hours.
Course Learning Outcome: 1 - 6

Detailed requirements will be posted on the MyUni site for this course.