Accounting Resources - Useful Links

Here are some links you may find useful (all links open in a new window).

Educational sites

• Department of Accounting, Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato.
• Waikato Management School
• The University of Waikato 
• Click here to have a look at information for future students. 
•  New Zealand Qualifications Authority
  • National Certificate of Educational Achievement
    • Achievement Standards for Accounting NCEA Level 1
    • Achievement Standards for Accounting NCEA Level 2
    • Achievement Standards for Accounting NCEA Level 3
    • Achievement Standards for Accounting NCEA Level 4
• New Zealand Commerce and Economics Teachers Association Inc

Professional Societies

• New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants
  Click here to watch a NZICA careers video (Realplayer only) 
  • New Zealand Equivalents to International Reporting Standards
  • Fly Higher - an accounting career resource guide
• Accounting & Finance Associations of Australia and New Zealand Ltd (AFAANZ)
• American Accounting Association
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales 
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants  (CIMA) (UK)
• FASB: Financial Accounting Standards Board 
• International Accounting Standards Board
• CPA Australia
  A collection of videos (Realplayer only) on IFRS explained with compliments of CPA Australia.
  • Video 1  - IFRS Overview - Playing the Same Tune
  • Video 2  - IFRS Effects - Who, What, When & How
  • Video 3  - IFRS News 1 - The Three I's
  • Video 4  - IFRS News 2 - Mechanics of Adoption
• We also have a series of Introductory Accounting videos (Realplayer only) with compliments of CPA Australia.  
  • Video 1  - An introduction to the One.Tel story
  • Video 2  - Statement of Financial Performance
  • Video 3  - Statement of Financial Position
  • Video 4  - Receivables
  • Video 5  - Cash Flows
  • Video 6  - Internal Control and Ethics
• For Secondary School Information, check out CPA Careers

Teaching Accounting

• Lesson plan: What is accounting? Introduction to Accounting from MoneyInstructor.com
• "Great Ideas for Teaching Accounting"
• Accounting and Financial Analysis
• Teaching Strategies to Foster "Deep" Versus "Surface Learning
• BizEd - a UK site for educators 
  • Accounting resources from BizEd 
• Images for accounting
  • from Google
  • from Alta Vista

Big 4 accounting firms

• Deloitte & Touche
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Industry and Government

• Ministry of Economic Development
• Ministry of Education
• New Zealand Government On-line (central and local government)
• New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (New Zealand's Economic Development Agency)
• New Zealand Treasury
• Business Information Zone -  practical business information
• New Zealand Stock Exchange

Useful Search Engines, dictionary and reference websites

• Google - especially advanced Google - global search engine
• SearchNZ - this is a useful New Zealand search engine
• Yahoo - global search engine
• Hoovers online
• Oxford Reference Online
• Glossarist - accounting glossaries and accounting dictionaries
• DMOZ - Dictionaries of Accounting 

Report writing links

• Business report writing from Clayton State University
• Writing business reports  

Other Links

• Accounting Education:
  Effective Learning and Teaching in Schools: Business Education and Economics  The contribution of accounting and finance
• AccountingWeb - a successful UK online accountancy community.
• BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
  • Accounting: general resources
  • Accounting: companies
  • Accounting: journals and magazines
  • Accounting: societies
  • Accounting: research
• AccountingEducation.com community

Presenter's files - Grant Samkin

•  Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards - implications for New Zealand preparers of financial reports - Accounting Education (Powerpoint, 335kb)
•  Preparing Financial Statements: New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards - Income Statement (Powerpoint, 739kb)
•  Preparing Financial Statements: New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards - Statement of Changes in Equity (Powerpoint, 482kb)
•  Preparing Financial Statements: New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards - The Balance Sheet (Powerpoint, 623kb)

NCEA Accounting Updates - Elizabeth Pitu

•  NCEA Accounting Update - Introduction (Powerpoint, 1,696kb)
•  NCEA Accounting Update - Income Statement Preparation (Powerpoint, 450kb) 
•  NCEA Accounting Update - Changes in Equity (Powerpoint, 233kb)
•  NCEA Accounting Update - Balance Sheet (Powerpoint, 280kb)