(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
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 in a variety of commercial contexts
- Interpret financial and non-financial information and data to provide a competent insight into the operations of a simple business for the purpose of performance measurement
- Research and critically evaluate contemporary theories and empirical research evidence in accounting and corporate finance
- Outline the current knowledge boundaries in the discipline
- Identify some activities which raise professional responsibilities and challenges for practitioners in accounting and finance
- Explain the consequences of unethical behaviour and formulate appropriate recommendations
- Recognise some of alternative national and cultural contexts in which finance can be seen as operating
- Critically evaluate 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:
- Competently apply their numerical and statistical skills to manipulate and interrogate financial and other numerical data using current communication and information technology
- Extract relevant information from structured and unstructured scenarios and data in order to identify problems and define solutions
- Independently locate, extract, analyse and critically evaluate arguments, data and information from multiple sources, including the academic literature
- Acknowledge and reference appropriate research sources
- Structure and communicate quantitative and qualitative information, ideas, analysis, argument and commentary in the form of academic essays and professional quality business reports and presentations
- Confidently articulate their own and others group working skills in a professional context.
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 ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline; and
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.
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