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ACCT2542: Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2025 
 
- Part 01. About This Guide 
- Part 02. Sample Final Examination Paper 
- Part 03. Suggested Solutions to Final Exam Paper 
- Part 04. Final Examination - Hints and Tips 
 
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UNSW Sydney - Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis (ACCT2542)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

University	UNSW Sydney
Study Level	Undergraduate
Course Code	ACCT2542
Course Name	Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Page Length	37

Prepare for the ACCT2542: Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis Final Examination 2025 - at UNSW Sydney, with the most complete exam guide available for this course, including exam-style questions and advice on common examination pitfalls. You will get with a clear picture of how the final exam will be assessed, and how it is structured, as well as the likely style and range of questions that you could see in the real exam. The purpose of this guide is to provide a logical structure for the topics that make up the course; and to emphasise and explain the important concepts and methods in each topic. This self-study set has been thoroughly updated to cover all the topics contained in the latest edition of the exam.

This course, ACCT2542 examines the preparation of external financial reports by corporate groups that are reporting entities in accordance with the Corporation Act, 2001 (Cth). The primary learning objective of the course is to apply the techniques of group accounting including consolidation accounting, equity accounting and the line-by-line method for jointly controlled operations or jointly controlled assets.

✔ (Summary) Main Topics:

Accounting for Company Income Tax
Business Combinations & Consolidation
Accounting for Business Combinations and Wholly Owned Subsidiaries
Intragroup Transaction
Accounting for Non-Controlling Interests (NCI)
Accounting for Indirect Ownership Interests
Accounting for Associates and Joint Ventures
Translating the Financial Statements of Foreign Operations
Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis including Analysis of Consolidated Financial Statements and Financial Statements with Associates

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME
ACCT2511	Financial Accounting Fundamentals
ACCT2522	Management Accounting for Decision Analysis
ACCT2542	Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
ACTL1101	Introduction to Actuarial Studies
ECON1102	Macroeconomics 1
ECON2101	Microeconomics 2
ECON2206	Introductory Econometrics
ECON2209	Business Forecasting
ECON3208	Applied Econometric Methods
FINS1613	Business Finance
FINS2618	Capital Markets and Institutions
FINS2624	Portfolio Management
FINS3625	Applied Corporate Finance
FINS3635	Options, Futures and Risk Management
FINS3636	Interest Rate Risk Management
FINS5511	Corporate Finance
FINS5535	Derivatives and Risk Management Techniques
MARK2012	Marketing Fundamentals
MATH1041	Statistics for Life and Social Sciences
MGMT2004	Managing Organisational Behaviour
TABL2710	Business and the Law
TABL2751	Business Taxation

UNSW Sydney - Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis (ACCT2542)

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