Public Accounting and Finance

This course empowers students to explore such fundamental questions and issues as what governments, central and local, do do and should do with the hundreds of billions of dollars they levy and borrow from or charge you and everyone else paying taxes or using services in Aotearoa New Zealand, not to mention other sovereign states. Besides that, the course examines the roles and practices of accounting and finance among political, official and professional persons involved in governmental organisations in such policy areas as education, health and welfare, conservation, security, and institutional, material, economic and social infrastructure.