22108 Accounting and Accountability

It is conceptually gentle but relentless in its pacing, and the pacing is what catches people out. There is no prior accounting knowledge assumed, and this subject deliberately removes debits and credits, so the mechanics are easier than a conventional first accounting subject - everything is flows through the expanded accounting equation on a spreadsheet. What makes it demanding is that half your mark is earned in eleven separate weeks: a timed pre-class quiz on Canvas and a 40-minute in-tutorial problem, neither of which can ever be submitted late. Students who fall behind cannot catch up retrospectively. The other pressure point is Excel - it is mandatory equipment from Week 2, it is rewarded inside the tutorial marking rubric, and it is needed in the final exam - so students who have never used formulas or cell references have a tool problem on top of a content problem. Work weekly rather than in bursts, and this subject is very manageable; leave it and the best-8-of-11 safety net evaporates fast. Steady work here also protects the Weighted Average Mark (WAM) your later subjects build on.

Yes, as a step-by-step study aid. Sia is an AI tutor trained on how 22108 is taught and assessed at University of Technology Sydney - including the fact that this subject records transactions as flows in the expanded accounting equation rather than in debits and credits, which is exactly what a generic model gets wrong. It can walk you through a transaction analysis one flow at a time, rebuild a trial balance into a profit and loss statement, statement of changes in equity and balance sheet, or take you through a ratio calculation and its interpretation, checking your reasoning as you go. Bring your own practice question and ask it to explain each step. It does not do graded assessment for you, and the UTS academic-integrity policy still applies: generative AI is NOT permitted in the in-tutorial problems or in the final exam, and it is permitted for the written reflection only in the specific ways set out on the Canvas assignment page. Use it to understand the method, not to produce work you submit.

There is no released past exam paper for this subject in the materials this guide was built to mirror, so do not go looking for one - build practice instead. Canvas is where the real practice lives: every topic has a non-assessable practice quiz with unlimited attempts and built-in feedback that mirrors the assessable quiz's layout, several topics carry an additional-practice-questions page holding earlier sessions' tutorial problems with solutions, and each topic's tutorial page posts that week's question, solution and explanatory video. The free Pressbooks textbook has its own end-of-chapter activities. This guide adds fully worked practice of our own authorship across the transaction-to-statements-to-ratios chain, with fresh numbers, and you can ask Sia to generate more in the same style and explain each step. The Week 12 large workshop is an official overview of the AAA final exam with hints and tips - it is the single highest-value session for exam preparation.

No hurdle is stated anywhere in the subject materials captured for this guide, but that is not the same as there being none: the definitive UTS Subject Outline sits behind a Canvas external tool and was not captured, and the assessment pages themselves defer to it. Confirm the hurdle position on your own Subject Outline. Two things that are often mistaken for hurdles are not: the UTS Handbook's university-wide statement that students must achieve at least 50% of a subject's total marks is a pass mark, and the Task 1 reweighting policy is a reweighting rule. The rules that ARE settled and that cost students marks: the best 8 of 11 rule applies SEPARATELY to Part A (quizzes) and Part B (tutorial problems), with the lowest 3 of EACH dropped, so you can miss up to three quizzes and up to three tutorials without academic penalty - it is not best 8 of 11 across the portfolio. Late submission is never accepted for either part, and there is no make-up tutorial for the problem - the only stated exception is a public-transport delay, where the subject asks you to contact the teaching team about attending a make-up tutorial. You must join your tutorial within the first five minutes to be eligible to participate, and the submission is due on Canvas within 15 minutes of the end of class. Missing 6 of 11 in a component may push that weight onto the final exam, but only with approved special consideration - without approval the result is a zero.

Assessment task 3 carries 50% of the subject mark and is sat online in the UTS formal examination period, with the individual timetable published through MyStudentAdmin. What is officially stated: it is RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK (a third state - never assume open book), generative AI is not permitted, and you need a laptop or computer with a working web-cam and microphone; an iPad or tablet is explicitly not sufficient, and a UTS-provided computer can be requested on hardship grounds. Excel is required on your own machine. What is NOT stated in the subject materials captured for this guide, and must not be guessed at: the duration, the number of questions, the marks per section, the question-type mix, and exactly which materials 'restricted' permits. The UTS Handbook entry for an earlier offering records a length of 2 hours - that is prior-offering evidence, not this offering's format. Content-wise the exam covers the whole subject, and Topics 7-12 are the entire management-accounting half of it, so an exam plan built only on the financial half is half a plan. Confirm the format, the permitted-materials list and your sitting date and time on the Subject Outline and MyStudentAdmin.