Faculty of Mathematic Handbook,1987 - University of Newcastle

monographs, including the following:
American Accounting
Association
American Institute of
Certified Public Accounts
Beaver, W.H.
Bromwich, M. &
Hopwood, A.(eds)
Chambers, R.I.
Financial Accounting
Standards Board
Parker, R.H. & Harcourt, O.C.
413200
Hours
Examination
Content
Accounting lllB
A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory
Objectives of Financial Statements
Financial Reporting: An Accounting Revolution
(prentice-Hall 1981)
Essays in British Accounting Research
Accounting Evaluation and Economic Behaviour
(Prentice-Hall 1966)
Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts
Readings in the Concept of Measurement of Income
(Cambridge U.P.)
2 lecture hours per week or 4 lecture hours per fortnight
One 3-hour paper and one 2-hour paper
The application of analytical reasoning and the use of formal models in organizational
decision making: financial modelling, decision analysis, cost estimation, product mix
decisions, project scheduling.
Texts
Fatseas, V.A.& Vagg, T.R.
Kaplan, R.S.
References
Bailey, E.
Corcoran, A.
Gordon, L.A. et al.
Mintzberg, H.
O'Connor, R.
413619 Foundations of Finance
Prerequisites
Hours
Examination
Content
Quantitative Techniques for Managerial Decision
Making (Prentice-Hall of Australia)
Advanced Management Accounting (prentice-Hall)
Pricing Practices and Strategies (Conference Board)
Costs (Wiley)
Normative Models in Managerial Decision-Making
(N.A.A.)
Impediments to the Use of Management Information
(N.A.A.)
Planning Under Uncertainty: Multiple Scenarios
and Contingency Planning (Conference Board)
Accounting I, Economics I and Introductory
Quantitative Methods
2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week
One 2 lh-hour mid-year paper
and one 3-hour final paper
Deriving basic financial relations (e.g. annuities); mean variance portfolio theory; capital
asset pricing model; applications of such models to evaluation of capital projects,
100
financing and dividend policies.
Texts
Pierson, G. & Bird, R.
References
Ball, R. et al.
Hart, W.L.
Bishop, S. et al.
713200 Biology lllB
Prerequisites
Hours
Examination
Content
Business Finance latest cdn (McGraw-Hill)
Share Markets and Portfolio Theory
(Queensland Univ. Press)
Mathematics of Investment (D.C. Heath)
Corporate Finance (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
Mathematics IIA & IIC & either Biology IIA or lIB
4 lecture hours & 8 tutorial hours per week. Two
3-day excursions.
Two 3-hour papers
Biology I1IB consists of three of the following topics. (Not all topics are available each
year.)
Year Offered
Topic Prerequisite 1987 1988
713104 Cell Processes Biochemistry Yes Yes
713207 Ecology and Evolution Yes Yes
713110 Environmental Plant No Yes
Physiology
713105 Immunology Yes Yes
713107 Mammalian Development Yes Yes
713108 Molecular Biology of Plant Yes No
Development
713109 Plant Structure and Yes Yes
Function
713106 Reproductive Physiology No Yes
For topic desCriptions consult the 1987 Faculty of Science Handbook.
523700 Civil Engineering 111M
Prerequisite
Civil Engineering 11M, Mathematics llA & DC
Hours
6 lecture hours & 41/1 tutorialflaboratory hours
per week
Examination
Four 3-hour papers, one 2-hour paper &
two 11/1-hour term papers
Content
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
CE324
CE314
CE333
CE334
CE351
Soil Mechanics
Theory of Structures II
Fluid Mechanics III
Open Channel Hydraulics
Civil Engineering Systems
101