Accounting

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Budgeting and costing systems as a means of encouraging and evaluating managers’ actions;
• The purpose, underlying assumptions and limitations of key corporate financial reporting documents including the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement;
• Combining financial and non-financial data in evaluating managerial and corporate performance.
• The processes involved in adapting financial reporting practices to a multinational setting;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify, analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative data in an appropriate way;
• Use appropriate quantitative, qualitative data, financial and non-financial data and techniques to make appropriate management decisions.
• Interpret financial statements and show how a business measures and manages it performance;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Interpret and analyse quantitative data related to business issues, using appropriate financial and/or statistical skills and models to solve problems.
• Manage individual tasks, personal resources and time effectively;
• Write effectively for business purposes;

Formative

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

In-class formative opportunities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Computational exercises, case studies and in-class presentations by students are a regular part of the module, and allow students to obtain feedback on their work. There is a mock exam just prior to the examination to provide final guidance and written feedback.
• 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.