BA Accounting and Financial Management and Business Management
ObjectivesIn accounting and financial management students will gain a good technical grounding and will have the opportunity to specialise in particular areas of accounting and financial management, like financial accounting, management accounting, or finance. Likewise, in the business management part of the degree, students will gain a good grounding in the basic principles of business management and then use this to specialise in particular areas of business management like human resource management, management information systems or marketing.
Entry requirements-CE/VCE A Levels - ABB -BTEC National Diploma - 2 Distinctions and 1 Merit -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - AB+BB -Scottish Highers - B/AAA (Scottish Advanced/Highers) -Irish Leaving Cert. - AABBB -International Baccalaureate - 33 points -Core Requirements - Grade B in Maths at GCSE or equivalent
Academic titleAccounting and Financial Management and Business Management BA
Course descriptionThis is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
This information is provided for illustration only and you should check with the department directly when applying to confirm module options.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Introduction to Management Accounting
-Business Economics
-Financial Accounting Introduction 1
-Financial Accounting Introduction 2
-Introduction to Behaviour at Work
-Introduction to Operations Management
-Management Information Systems
-Principles of Marketing
-Introductory Business Statistics A
-Introductory Business Statistics B
-Quantitative and IT Skills B
-Quantitative and Information Technology Skills A
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Financial Management
-Intermediate Financial Accounting
-Intermediate Management Accounting
-Business Statistics
-Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
-Human Resource Management
-Information Systems Development
-Introduction to Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing
-Issues in Corporate Governance
-Issues in Financial Management
-Law for Management
-Organisational Behaviour
-Principles of Consumer Behaviour
-Principles of Operations Management
-Project Management
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Business Strategy
-Advances in Financial Accounting
-Advances in Management Accounting
-An Introduction to Financial Derivatives
-Auditing
-Business Strategy
-Case Studies in Accounting and Financial Management
-Corporate Finance
-Corporate Social Responsibility
-Critical Perspectives in Work & Organisational Psychology
-Enterprise Workshops
-Financial Reporting Theory
-Group Project in Management
-Group Project in Management
-Independent Study (Dissertation)
-Industrial Relations
-Integrated Marketing Communications
-International Business
-Management Consulting
-Public Sector Accounting & Financial Management
-Technology Management