Waikato Management School

The Department of Accounting


2001 ICANZ REQUIREMENTS: Completing under the 28 paper BMS

Students must complete a minimum of 5 liberal, 10 accounting and 10 business papers (see Department of Accounting web page) and must meet the following requirements specified by the Institute.

Students completing the BMS (Hons) do not need to complete the liberal papers but must complete the ICANZ requirements for compulsory and advanced topics coverage. Honours students must complete four(4) Level 5 Accounting papers.


Compulsory Topics Papers within the Institute-recognised programme at the
University of Waikato
Classification
Financial Accounting Satisfied by pre-requisites to advanced papers, e.g. ACCT202 A
Management Accounting ACCT231

or
ACCT311
Management Accounting: Accounting for
Organisational Control (from 2003)

Management Accounting
(note: these are corresponding papers)
A
Auditing ACCT341 (also qualifies as an advanced elective) A
Taxation ACCT351 (also qualifies as an advanced elective) A
Economics ECON100
or
[0345.101
0345.102
Business Economics & the New Zealand Economy

Macroeconomics & the International Economy and
Business Economics]
B

B

B
Organisational Management STMG191 Introduction to Management B
Business Finance/Treasury FINA201 Introduction to Finance B
Quantitative Methods/Statistics STAT160 Management Statistics B
Information Technology MSYS111
or
MSYS212
or
ACCT313
Information Management and Decision Making

IT in Organisations

Accounting Information Technology and Systems (also qualifies as an advanced elective in A.I.S.)
B

B

A
Commercial Law [ACCT221


and
[ACCT321

and
[ACCT322
Introduction to the Legal Environment (from 2003 corresponds to MNGT221 Business Law, Ethics and the Treaty of Waitangi) or LAWS204 Contracts]

Commercial Law or LAWS426 Commercial
Transactions]

Law of Business Enterprises or LAWS305 Corporate
Entities]
B




B


B

In addition, students must cover four from the six topics specified below at the advanced level, including two from the first three topics specified:


Advanced Elective Topics Papers within the Institute-recognised
programme at the University of Waikato
Classification
1 Financial Accounting ACCT301
and
ACCT302
Accounting Theory

Financial Accounting
A

A
2 Management Accounting ACCT411
or
ACCT511
or

ACCT331
Management Accounting

Advanced Management Accounting

Management Accounting (from 2004 corresponds to ACCT411)
A

A


A
3 AuditingACCT341Auditing A
4 TaxationACCT351TaxationA
5 Business Finance/Treasury FINA311
and
[FINA313
FINA511
Corporate Finance

Capital Markets or
Advanced Corporate Finance]
A/B


A/B
6 Accounting Information Systems ACCT313Accounting Information Technology and Systems A