(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.
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate technical skills in key areas of accounting and finance field and prepared for a career in accounting and finance.
2. Formulate feasible solutions to complex financial and commercial scenarios.
3. Recognise the implications and relevance of the knowledge boundaries in current empirical research in accounting and finance.
4. Demonstrate awareness of the alternative national and cultural contexts in which accounting and finance is practised.
5. Effectively communicate key facts, ideas, problem solutions, results via assessment, for example, verbally and in written form.
6. Demonstrate effective team work, using appropriate support as necessary.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement –
7. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
8. Demonstrate an awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development.
If the chosen pathway includes an international placement -
9. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
10. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
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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