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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 | Intercultural understanding

Intercultural understanding

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

  • developing an understanding of accounting in various cultural contexts, including Indigenous perspectives
  • understanding that financial sustainability and the provision of accounting advice is influenced by local and global perspectives
  • recognising that engaging with different cultural perspectives enhances one’s own knowledge and understanding
  • exploring links between self and others in local and global accounting contexts
  • exploring the impact of globalisation on their personal circumstances.