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Description

This is a full-year unit which requires students to attend the first and second semester seminars in the Research Seminar Series of the Accounting and Finance Department. Students taking this unit will normally also be enrolled in ACCG893 Research Methodology in Accounting or ACCG805 Research Methodology in Finance. Seminars are held every week or every second week during semester (but excluding the first and last weeks of semester and the mid-semester break) depending on the total number of seminars scheduled for the semester. The seminars range over a variety of areas and topics in accounting (management and financial accounting), auditing, accounting information systems and finance and are presented by local, interstate and overseas researchers. The seminars are attended by academic staff in the department, and sometimes interested people from outside the department. In each case, the seminar is a forum for the academic or researcher to present a working paper on his or her current research to colleagues, with the objective being to obtain constructive comment on the research paper prior to submission to a journal.

Students are also required to select and submit a written commentary (critique) on five of the papers presented in the series over the year. The commentary is required for submission one week after the seminar. The commentary is a maximum of eight A4 pages, typed double-spaced. Details of how to approach the commentary are provided early in the unit, and examples of such commentaries and critiques are met frequently by students in the co-requisite unit ACCG893 or ACCG805. A pre-seminar class will be conducted for selected papers to assist students in their reading and discussion of the paper.