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Created on 21 September 2009
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Project Name:
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance)
Date:
21/09/2009
Author:
Hugh Soord
Owner:
School of Accounting, CBS
Client:
Curtin Business School
Document Number:
1
Release:
Final
Note: This document is only valid on the day it was written.
Achievement of the project’s objectives
The project aims to:
 develop all units within the Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance)
double major to a benchmark standard (baseline).

address issues such as flexible learning, capacity building, use of flexible
learning tools and resources and the quality of the learning and teaching
resources.
All milestones were achieved within the planned target time, projected costs and
project tolerances.
Milestone objectives:
Project commencement
Objective completed 4/12/2008
Milestone 1: Complete all First year (Semester 1 & 2), all Second year
Semester 1, and all Third year Semester 1 units
Objective completed 31/03/2009
First year units
(Semester 1)Economics 100, Management 100, Communications in Business
100, Accounting 100
(Semester 2): Marketing 100, Business Information Systems 100, Business
Law 100, Finance Quantitative Techniques 203
Business Capstone 300
Second year units
(Semester 2): Taxation 331, Accounting (Systems) 204, Accounting (External
Reporting) 260, Finance (Analysis) 206, Mathematical Economics 201.
Third year units
(Semester 1): Accounting (Auditing) 300, Accounting (Managerial Control)
301, Finance (Derivative Securities) 312, Finance (Portfolio Management)
301.
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Milestone 2: Complete all - all Second year Semester 2 and all Third year
Semester 2 units
Objective completed 30/06/2009:
Second year units
(Semester 2): Taxation 331, Accounting (Systems) 204, Accounting (External
Reporting) 260, Finance (Analysis) 206, Mathematical Economics 201.
Third year units
(Semester 2): Accounting (Decision Analysis) 308, Business Capstone 300,
Finance (International) 302, Finance (Corporate) 307.
Review of benefits achieved to date
All units in the Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) now have a common
navigation and layout structure providing familiarity to students who are attached to
six of the seven CBS schools. This commonality (baselining) means that students
can navigate easily through any unit and focus on the unit outcomes rather than in
locating content and resources due to disparate unit organisation.
As part of this project, academics have been introduced to the benefits of using
Web2.0 tools and, in many cases, have used the baselining of their units as a
springboard to incorporate these tools into their approach to teaching and learning.
They have also developed the capacity to maintain their units with reduced support
from CBS-OTLF.
Numerous capacity building workshops have been held to help academics embrace
a more flexible approach to teaching and learning. This has extended beyond the
project timeline and has involved other CBS academics, a planned outcome of the
funding proposal.
Additionally, all academics involved in this project now have an online presence.