(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Apply current technical standards, language and practices of accounting in a variety of commercial contexts
- Interpret financial and non-financial information and data to provide a professional insight into the operations of a complex business for the purpose of decision analysis, performance measurement and management control
- Research, summarise and critically evaluate some key contemporary theories and relevant empirical research evidence in the field of accounting, corporate finance, risk and the operation of capital markets
- Explain the implications and relevance of the current knowledge boundaries in the discipline
- Identify some activities which raise professional responsibilities and challenges for practitioners in accounting and finance
- Articulate the consequences of unethical behaviour and formulate professional recommendations
- Recognise some of alternative national and cultural contexts in which accounting and 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:
- Apply their numerical and statistical skills to manipulate and interrogate financial and other numerical data using current communication and information technology at a professional level
- Identify problems, extract relevant information and define alternative feasible solutions and justifiable conclusions from complex structured and unstructured scenarios and data
- Apply intelligent scepticism in independently locating, extracting, analysing and critically evaluating 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 of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline; and
- work that is typically both evaluative and analytical.
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