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2025 unit information
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1 x 2 hour lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week.
Online independent and collaborative learning including 5 x 1 hour online seminars per trimester.
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
In SRE170, students will learn fundamental accounting principles and practices to financial transactions on building works and in construction companies. Students will identify how accounting is one of a number of systems which provide information to managers in the construction industry. Learning and assessment activities will focus on understanding financial statements, elementary financial analysis and cash management, taxation considerations including capital allowances, capital budgeting techniques and the obligations and cost of employing staff.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Attain and apply knowledge on financial and economic terminology in construction.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinking
Identify and collect relevant financial information in construction.
Interpret and analyse financial reports in construction.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO3: Digital LiteracyGLO4: Critical thinking
Apply financial and feasibility assessment techniques for decision-making.
GLO3: Digital literacyGLO5: Problem SolvingGLO7: Teamwork
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit students must achieve at least 40% in the Company Financial Assessment report.
The texts and reading list for SRE170 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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