School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Auditing and Assurance Services
  • Unit Code

    ACC6030
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Atul CHANDRA

Description

This unit covers both theoretical concepts and practical auditing techniques, including, auditing framework, standards, audit procedures, auditors decision-making processes, and reporting. It adopts a risk-based approach in evaluating the material misstatement related to the risks of the corporations being audited. This unit emphasises the external audit of corporations by professional auditors from their engagement to the issue of their independent opinion, in an ethical environment. Students develop judgemental, appraisal, problem-solving, written and oral communications skills using realistic case studies.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ACC6015

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Recommend/use audit concepts and techniques and apply relevant rules and regulations (including auditing standards) in addressing the problem/ issue.
  2. Examine cases/ scenarios and identify problems/ issues (including ethical issues) involved.
  3. Select relevant data and contextual factors to evaluate risks or impact on diverse stakeholders, where relevant.
  4. Establish criteria/ assumptions to be used to solve problems/ issues or to make judgments.
  5. Solve the problem by issuing the conclusion/ judgment/ decision, audit opinion, recommendations for action where appropriate.

Unit Content

  1. Auditing and assurance framework, Australian standards (based on international standards), guidelines, and pronouncements.
  2. Nature and purpose of Auditing and auditors reporting obligations.
  3. Professional ethics, audit independence and corporate governance
  4. Corporate failures, computer and other frauds.
  5. Overview of elements of the financial report audit process.
  6. Audit strategy and planning.
  7. Business risk, control risk, inherent risk of business and its environment.
  8. Understanding and assessing internal controls, computer-based systems and big data.
  9. Substantive testing, audit software and advanced data analytics.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is delivered in a Technology Enhanced Learning mode, where technology is used to facilitate your learning. As such, you are required each week to login into the LMS unit site and complete a series of pre-seminar tasks. These pre-seminar tasks can include studying book chapters, auditing standards, lecture recordings, problem scenarios, or the combination of tasks. Using the pre-seminar tasks, during the two-hour seminars, students will be discussing, debating their views to solve problem scenarios and apply them to real-life companies. The completion of pre-seminar tasks is essential for the student's meaningful contribution to these seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study 40%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

ACC6030|2|1

School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Auditing and Assurance Services
  • Unit Code

    ACC6030
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Atul CHANDRA

Description

This unit covers both theoretical concepts and practical auditing techniques, including, auditing framework, standards, audit procedures, auditors decision-making processes, and reporting. It adopts a risk-based approach in evaluating the material misstatement related to the risks of the corporations being audited. This unit emphasises the external audit of corporations by professional auditors from their engagement to the issue of their independent opinion, in an ethical environment. Students develop judgemental, appraisal, problem-solving, written and oral communications skills using realistic case studies.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ACC6015

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Recommend/use audit concepts and techniques and apply relevant rules and regulations (including auditing standards) in addressing the problem/ issue.
  2. Examine cases/ scenarios and identify problems/ issues (including ethical issues) involved.
  3. Select relevant data and contextual factors to evaluate risks or impact on diverse stakeholders, where relevant.
  4. Establish criteria/ assumptions to be used to solve problems/ issues or to make judgments.
  5. Solve the problem by issuing the conclusion/ judgment/ decision, audit opinion, recommendations for action where appropriate.

Unit Content

  1. Auditing and assurance framework, Australian standards (based on international standards), guidelines, and pronouncements.
  2. Nature and purpose of Auditing and auditors reporting obligations.
  3. Professional ethics, audit independence and corporate governance
  4. Corporate failures, computer and other frauds.
  5. Overview of elements of the financial report audit process.
  6. Audit strategy and planning.
  7. Business risk, control risk, inherent risk of business and its environment.
  8. Understanding and assessing internal controls, computer-based systems and big data.
  9. Substantive testing, audit software and advanced data analytics.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is delivered in a Technology Enhanced Learning mode, where technology is used to facilitate your learning. As such, you are required each week to login into the LMS unit site and complete a series of pre-seminar tasks. These pre-seminar tasks can include studying book chapters, auditing standards, lecture recordings, problem scenarios, or the combination of tasks. Using the pre-seminar tasks, during the two-hour seminars, students will be discussing, debating their views to solve problem scenarios and apply them to real-life companies. The completion of pre-seminar tasks is essential for the student's meaningful contribution to these seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study 40%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyIndividual Case Study40%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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