13ACC

NCEA Level 3 Accounting

Course Description


Level 3 Accounting provides students with an understanding of the operation of business and business management. The course focuses on partnerships and companies, which are service, trading or manufacturing in nature. Students will be able to understand accounting concepts, process financial data, understand systems, prepare reports, analyse and interpret reports and make informed decisions


Processing Financial Information

The preparation of journal and ledger entries for partnerships and companies.

Preparation of financial statements for partnerships and companies.


Analysis and Interpretation

The preparation of a report that analyses and interprets a company’s financial report to provide information for external users.


Cost Accounting and Management Decision Making

Processing information through a Job Cost accounting system.

Management decision-making in terms of Cost-Volume-Profit analysis and preparation of budgets used by management.

Students who go on to become accounting technicians or chartered accountants will find opportunities in business, government departments, banking as well as in accountancy firms. There are many branches of accounting to specialise in later, such as financial accounting, management accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting, project accounting, forensic accounting, international accounting, government accounting.

Course Overview

Term 1
Partnership Formation and Theory
Profit Distribution Statements, Journals and Ledgers
Profit Distribution Statements and Current Accounts
Company law, Issuing Shares,
Bonus Issues, Share buybacks
Journal and Ledgers for Dividends
Journal and Ledgers for Revaluations
Journal and Ledgers for Taxation

Term 2
Income Statements and Balance Sheets for companies
Cash flow Statements for companies
Analysis Calculations
Profitability and Segment Analysis , Market Analysis
Liquidity, Cash Management and Financial Stability
Integrated reporting, comparison with another,
non-financial information

Term 3
Types of Costs and Documentation
Cost Drivers and Under and Over Applied Overhead
Processing Information for Job Costing

Term 4
Types of Costs
Cost-volume-profit Analysis
Contribution Margin and Ratio
Financial and non-financial information
Cash budgets, other budgets

Recommended Prior Learning

10 credits in Level 2 Accounting including 2.3

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

ledger refill, device

Pathway

Students who go on to become accounting technicians or chartered accountants will find opportunities in business, government departments, banking as well as in accountancy firms. There are many branches of accounting to specialise in later, such as financial accounting, management accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting, project accounting, forensic accounting, international accounting, government accounting.

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

Total Credits Available: 22 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 9 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 13 credits.

Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91405 v2
NZQA Info
Accounting 3.2 - Demonstrate understanding of accounting for partnerships
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91406 v2
NZQA Info
Accounting 3.3 - Demonstrate understanding of company financial statement preparation
Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91407 v2
NZQA Info
Accounting 3.4 - Prepare a report for an external user that interprets the annual report of a New Zealand reporting entity
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 5r,5w *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91408 v2
NZQA Info
Accounting 3.5 - Demonstrate understanding of management accounting to inform decision-making
Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91409 v2
NZQA Info
Accounting 3.6 - Demonstrate understanding of a job cost subsystem for an entity
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 22
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 5
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Approved subject for University Entrance

Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 22

Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.