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ACCT6029: Applied Business Performance Management
2025 unit information
This unit will consolidate and enhance skills in accounting analytics. It will allow students to develop and apply more advancedaccounting analytics skills utilising and applying a business intelligence tool to perform data analysis and visualisation. It willincorporate more advanced aspects of analytics ensuring more extensive use of business intelligence tools and applicationtools (PowerBI) for applying predictive analytics in several industry contexts. It will also create opportunities for strategicapplication of prescriptive analytics in accounting operational areas including auditing, financial accounting and managerialaccounting. Students will have multiple opportunities to draw business insights from data sets to develop businessperformance enhancements and embed decision-making through process automation. The units will explore and reflect onpotential ethical issues in developing prescriptive analytics. Skills will be developed via a case study approach, based around avariety of business types, such as: services, banking and finance, eRetail, lean manufacturing and transport and logistics.Emphasis will be placed on the drivers of success in such business types when applying analytics and process automation.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Accounting |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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ACCT6001 and ACCT6008 and ACCT6019 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Apply more advanced accounting analytics skills utilising and applying a business intelligence tool to perform data analysis/visualisation.
- LO2. Apply business intelligence tools for predictive analytics.
- LO3. Apply prescriptive analytics strategically in accounting activities and for business performance enhancement through process automation.
- LO4. Explore and reflect on the ethical issues of prescriptive analytics.
- LO5. Analyse business success drivers in a diverse range of industries.
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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