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Accounting Stage 2
Subject outline

Version 4.0
For teaching in Australian and SACE International schools from January 2024 to December 2024.
For teaching in SACE International schools only from May/June 2023 to March 2024, and from May/June 2024 to March 2025.
Accredited in August 2018 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2020.

Stage 2 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Literacy

Literacy

In this subject students extend and apply their literacy capability by, for example:

  • extending their understanding of and applying appropriate accounting terminology
  • collecting and creating non-financial information
  • critically analysing and evaluating accounting information
  • communicating financial and non-financial information
  • communicating appropriately for specific purposes and stakeholders
  • reporting accounting information to a variety of stakeholders to manage financial sustainability
  • identifying and analysing problems and proposing accounting advice to inform decision-making.