ACCT1101: why is the same content tested under 2 opposite rules?
ACCT1101 asks you to sit two assessments that could hardly be less alike. Half your grade comes from 2 Inspera case studies you complete in your own time, with your notes open and AI tools permitted.
ACCT1006: why do adjusting entries decide your semester?
Most students who lose ACCT1006 do not lose it in the final exam. They lose it in the 3 or 4 weeks when adjusting entries are introduced, quietly, while everything still feels manageable.
ACCT503: why is half the mark on an exam you cannot click through?
ACCT503 is a paper you learn by doing: you build a database, run analytics on real data, and draw flowcharts.
ACC501 Business Accounting and Finance: you are not being trained to become an accountant
The single most useful fact about this subject is buried in its enrolment rules. ACC501 is incompatible with MBA504, which tells you what it is: the accounting core of a postgraduate management degree, built for people who will read…
ACCT4104: the standard reads like IFRS, and that is the trap
The standard examined in ACCT4104 reads almost word for word like the IFRS version. That resemblance is what catches people out.
ACC203: why do accounting students lose marks on a systems subject?
Most students walk into Accounting Information Systems with two and a half years of double-entry behind them, and that training quietly works against them.
ACCT2542: consolidation entries that exist in nobody's books
The hardest idea in this course is not a calculation. It is that the consolidated financial statements a term is spent learning to prepare describe an entity that does not legally exist, built from entries never recorded in anyone's…
ACCT3563: the final accounting course is about what the standards cannot settle
3 years of accounting trains you to find the treatment. This course puts you in front of questions where the profession has argued for 3 decades and still disagrees.
ACCT3600: why does the right answer stop earning marks in a capstone?
Three years of accounting rewards getting to the correct figure. Auditing rewards something the earlier units never asked for: a defensible position built on evidence that is incomplete by design.
ACC311: why does a correct calculation still lose marks?
Students arrive at Strategic and Sustainable Accounting with 3 years of technical training and assume the hard part will be the numbers. It rarely is.
ACCT2019 Accounting Analysis: why there is no single right number
Students arrive at ACCT2019 from introductory accounting, where a figure is either right or wrong and a standard decides which. Management accounting does not work that way.
FINA1149 Finance for Non-Finance Managers: what do the reports need?
FINA1149 is assessed by two short reports totalling 2,000 words, and that constraint is the whole difficulty.
ACC304 Company Accounting: how do you approach the assignment?
ACC304 Company Accounting asks you to apply Australian Accounting Standards to real corporate reporting problems, and the marks sit in your justification, not your journal entries.
ACCT2105 at RMIT Vietnam: how do you approach the assignment?
Most students who struggle with this RMIT accounting course are not short on technical skill. They arrive expecting debits and credits, and meet instead a course built around a different question: not how to prepare accounts, but why an…
How to approach the BAFI3250 Cryptofinance assignment?
BAFI3250 Cryptofinance and Cryptocurrency rewards students who analyse crypto assets using finance tools, valuation logic, risk, market microstructure and regulation, not those who explain how a blockchain works or argue that a coin will…
How to approach the BAFI3287 Financial Technology assignment?
BAFI3287 Introduction to Financial Technology rewards students who explain which financial function a technology performs and at what cost, not those who narrate how blockchain or AI works.
BAFI3230 Corporate Finance assignment: how do you approach it?
BAFI3230 Corporate Finance rewards a defensible financial decision, invest, fund, or value the firm, not a description of the company you chose.
BAFI3182 Financial Markets assignment: how do you approach the analysis?
BAFI3182 Financial Markets rewards analysis of how markets price risk and channel capital, not a recap of what the financial news reported this week.