This course aims to provide you with the necessary introductory accounting knowledge to understand how to use financial statement information to make economic decisions from a user perspective such as investors and creditors. In the process, you will learn to prepare a basic set of financial statements in accordance with the Singapore Financial Reporting Standards.
The course also examines the impact of various accounting choices on the financial statements and the incentives that contracts based on accounting numbers can create for different stakeholders. This will help you understand why managers choose certain accounting methods and avoid others. This learning forms the foundation for further studies in areas which require accounting knowledge.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
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| Exam | 23 November 2026, 1.00 pm - 3.30 pm |
The Exam information shown may be subject to changes. Students are to check the finalised exam timetable with exam seat information, which will be available at the 'Examination Seating Arrangement' webpage, 2 weeks before start of examination.
Prerequisite Graph
Required first
Financial Accounting
Available Indexes
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| 830 | 01116 SEM (2) 0830-1120 Tue S3-SR1 | 01122 SEM (8) 0830-1120 Thu S4-SR5 | 01123 SEM (9) 0830-1120 Thu S4-SR24 | 01126 SEM (12) 0830-1120 Thu S4-SR15 | 01125 SEM (11) 0830-1120 Fri S4-SR5 | |||
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| 930 | 01118 SEM (4) 0930-1220 Wed S4-SR20 | 01119 SEM (5) 0930-1220 Wed S4-SR4 | ||||||
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| 1330 | 01115 SEM (1) 1330-1620 Mon S4-SR19 | 01117 SEM (3) 1330-1620 Tue S4-SR10 | 01124 SEM (10) 1330-1620 Thu S4-SR19 | 01127 SEM (13) 1330-1620 Thu S4-SR20 | 01128 SEM (14) 1330-1620 Fri S4-SR20 | |||
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| 1430 | 01120 SEM (6) 1430-1720 Wed S3-SR8 | 01121 SEM (7) 1430-1720 Wed S4-SR7 | ||||||
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