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The Accounting and Taxation program focuses on teaching students how to develop and communicate the financial and operational information necessary for management decisions in both private and public sectors. This program covers areas such as financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, international accounting, tax accounting, and public sector accounting. The program is offered at the undergraduate and graduate level. The main research topics include:
Awareness of Fair Trade and its Influence
Informativeness of Consolidated Financial Statement
Insider Trading, Accounting Fraud
Information Asymmetry and CEO Effort Allocation
Financial Accounting Information
Accounting History
Cash Flow Statement and Firm's Value
Forecasting Accuracy of Financial Analyst and Disclosure of Corporate Surplus
Quality of Financial Information and Corporate Financial Performance
1. What is Accounting?
Accounting is the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.
Social role of accounting information
The essence of economic activities is resource allocation, and accounting information supports efficient resource allocation.
2. Major Areas of Accounting
Financial Accounting
Accounting concerned with the preparation of financial statements for decision makers, such as stockholders, suppliers, banks, employees, government agencies, owners, and other stakeholders
Managerial Accounting
Accounting concerned with the provisions and use of accounting information to managers within organiza- tions, to provide them with the basis to make informed business decisions that will allow them to be better equipped in their management and control functions
Tax Accounting
Accounting for tax purposes. Tax accounting has a comprehensive set of accounting principles for tax purposes, prescribed by tax law, which are separate and distinct from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Accounting Audit
Mainly associated with gaining information about financial systems and the financial records of a company or a business
Non-Profit Accounting
Accounting focusing on non-profit organizations such as the nation, local governments, and educational institutions
3. Educational Objective
|Basic Objective| Fostering accounting experts
Objective 1
Fostering accounting professionals (CPA)
Objective 2
Fostering management experts adaptable to environmental change
Objective 3
Fostering accounting professionals with upright character, ethics, and responsibilities
4. Recommended Curriculum Roadmap
Future Career Path
CPA
CIA, CIIA, CFA
CFO Finance & Accounting Consultant
CPAs are qualified to pursue all of the above.
1-1
Principles of Accounting,
Principles of Management, Management English
1-2
Managerial Accounting 1,
Principles of Economics, Statistics