ACCT2542 Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis (UNSW Sydney): rated 2.8/5 overall, difficulty 2.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 0.5/5 across 33 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
ACCT2542 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the UNSW Business School in School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 公司财务报告与分析
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
Faculty: UNSW Business School
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
This course covers financial accounting at an advanced level, with a focus on business combination accounting, group accounting (subsidiaries and joint arrangements), and foreign currency accounting (translation). The topics of this course are useful for understanding mergers and acquisitions valuation, financial statement analysis, and financial valuation methods.
ACCT2542 has 33 scored reviews: overall 2.8/5 · usefulness 1.3 · difficulty 2.0 · would-recommend 0.5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 2 reviews by UNSW students on UNSW Wall (1.8/5 overall); 1 StudentVIP review (average 4.0 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.8/5).
On Reddit: "The organisation for this entire course is so whack. Tutorial question worksheets constantly being changed every week and even the exam had spelling mistakes in it. The table given on Q3 didn't even make sense."
On Reddit: "This course was so ass when I did it 2 years ago that they made the final exam entirely multiple choice so less people would fail lmao."
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Q: Is ACCT2542 hard?
A: Students rate ACCT2542's difficulty 2.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it moderately difficult.
Q: Is ACCT2542 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 33 reviews: would-recommend 0.5/5, usefulness 1.3/5, overall 2.8/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ACCT2542, and when is it offered?
A: ACCT2542 is taught by the UNSW Business School. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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