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Accounting Stage 1
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 1 from 2019.

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Information and communication technology (ICT) capability

Information and communication technology (ICT) capability

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

  • locating and accessing financial and non-financial information using digital technologies
  • using digital technologies to work collaboratively
  • developing an understanding of the changing forms of accounting such as computer-based records, cloud-based accounting systems, point-of-sale systems, and online banking and smartphone applications
  • exploring contemporary methods of communicating accounting information to meet specific needs of stakeholders
  • evaluating the real-time availability of financial information facilitated by cloud-based and web-based accounting systems.