(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Competently record and summarise financial transactions and apply current technical standards, language and practices of accounting to prepare financial statements
- Interpret financial and non-financial information and data to provide a basic insight into the operations of a simple business
- Outline relevant contemporary theories and relevant empirical research evidence in accounting and finance
- Identify some activities which raise professional responsibilities and challenges for practitioners in accounting and finance
- Outline the consequences of unethical behaviour
- Recognise some of alternative national contexts in which financial reporting can be seen as operating
- Outline some the alternative technical languages and practices of the discipline.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- Apply basic numerical and statistical skills to manipulate and interrogate financial and other numerical data using current communication and information technology
- Extract relevant information to identify solutions from structured scenarios and data
- Locate, extract, analyse and critically evaluate data and information from multiple sources
- Acknowledge and reference appropriate research sources
- Structure and communicate quantitative and qualitative information, analysis and commentary in the form of academic essays and professional quality business reports and presentations
- Demonstrate group working skills in making a professional presentation.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
- work that covers a restricted area of the discipline; and
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.
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