Accounting and Control

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate self-management skills.
• Demonstrate skills in written communication;
• Demonstrate skills in teamwork;

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the use of capital appraisal techniques.
• the operation of a budgetary control system, and the use of different approaches to costing;
• the framework of accounting – including underlying concepts and principles of accounting and the effect of different methods accounting measurement of asset valuation and profit determination;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse a set of published accounts;
• develop and apply numeracy and critical analysis skills in relation to the analysis of financial data.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Tutorial questions and in-class discussion (both individual and group) as well as bi-weekly 10 minutes test in the classroom.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.