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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Greenwich Campus
Full Time
Sep 2028
4 Year
This accounting and finance degree with a foundation year provides opportunities with firms in the City of London and Canary Wharf and accreditation from professional accounting bodies.This extended accounting and finance degree includes a foundation year to help you adjust to study at university before you embark on our three-year course. The modules include auditing, banking and taxation, helping you build the skills and knowledge you need to kick-start your career. Recent graduates of accounting and finance have joined banks and professional services firms, including KPMG, Grant Thornton and Barclays Investment Bank.The course is accredited by 6 accounting professional bodies, including full professional level exemption from the ACCA, full exemption from the operational level of the CIMA qualification and 7 ICAEW papers.
This course provides students with an introduction to both economics and financial institutions and markets. The course first starts by an introduction to micro and macro-economics, central banking and monetary policy. These basic introductory concepts will allow students to understand how the global economy functions and grasp the implications monetary policy has on the functioning of the financial system. Students will be able to address questions relating to what happens if there is contractionary/expansionary monetary policy in the economy? What could be the effect of having excess supply/demand in the economy? What is the role of the central bank and how does it control the money supply in the economy? In answering these questions, the participants will acquire the basic knowledge of economics and understand its implications in the financial system. The course then progresses into introducing students to the basic function of financial markets, institutions and financial regulation. This will enable students to distinguish between the different types of financial institutions and understand the principle of financial regulation. It addition to the theoretical knowledge of economics and the functionality of financial markets, students will also learn the more technical knowledge of managing short-term finance, financial mathematics and understand how to use financial mathematical techniques in practice.
The aim of the course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles, concepts and techniques of financial accounting. It aims to develop competence in the use of double entry techniques, the formulation of the main financial statements required of a business organisation, and to introduce the analysis of an organisation?s financial performance to satisfy the decision?making requirements of different stakeholder groups.
This module provides an introduction to Management Accounting. It is concerned with the analysis of costs, planning and control, and all internal operations within an organisation. However, Management Accounting is more than numbers; it forms the basis of decision making which is heavily influenced by organisational behaviour within an ethical context of an organisation. Analysing organisational behavioural and management accounting includes analysing the employees who operate within the organisation. When human beings are involved, it is not just the numbers deciding an organisation's success or failure. It is within a diversified business environment this module aims to enable students to understand and apply these management accounting techniques, to determine not only the "How", but also the "Why" of the approaches introduced. A further aim is for students near the beginning of their accountancy course to develop conceptual frameworks that can be used throughout their degree programme as tools in which to analyse organisational activity.
This course helps students improve specific analytical skills required by the accounting profession. It aims to allow students to develop skills for independent and self-directed learning. This course introduce students to specific of university life and processes. It increase the ability to benefit from the academic learning process The course also focuses on identifying and building essential employability skills and abilities
The Module aims to develop students' ability to develop arguments and justify conclusions using numerical information. The Module teaches statistical and analytical skills and aims to develop students' numerical skills and understanding of numbers specifically in a financial context. It is also vital that arguments stemming from numerical analysis are communicated clearly.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
The aim of the module is to equip a student with the means by which they can understand how individuals and businesses are affected by the legal environment in which they operate. By the end of the module, a learner should be able to: Understand the legal principles of business and company law. Apply business and company law principles to fact based legal problems, and To examine and reflect on current legal issues in business and company law.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
Advanced Financial Accounting (AFA) aims to develop students' understanding of financial reporting and to enhance their ability to understand and to analyse published financial statements logically and coherently. The course is based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) compliance with which is compulsory in the consolidated financial statements for firms with listings in a number of jurisdictions, including all states within the European Union. The AFA course also aims to place financial accounting in a computerised context and therefore the course is designed so that students develop a practical understanding of accounting information systems using a computerised accounting programme such as SAGE 50 Accounts Professional.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
The aim of this module is to help business students develop the necessary skills to find a placement and appropriate graduate employment, and to increase students' employability skills.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
This course develops the costing techniques introduced at Level 4. It aims to allow students to understand how a wider range of accounting techniques may be used by management for the purposes of planning, control and decision making. This course will improve the students understanding of management accounting in an organisational setting. Therefore, students will not only be asked to demonstrate their ability to answer numeric questions but will also be asked to explain their solutions and methods. This course aims to bring management accounting techniques into a practical setting by requiring students to translate management accounting problems into Excel based models.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
This course develops the costing techniques introduced at Level 4. It aims to allow students to understand how a wider range of accounting techniques may be used by management for the purposes of planning, control and decision making. This course will improve the students understanding of management accounting in an organisational setting. Therefore, students will not only be asked to demonstrate their ability to answer numeric questions but will also be asked to explain their solutions and methods. This course aims to bring management accounting techniques into a practical setting by requiring students to translate management accounting problems into Excel based models.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
The aims of the course are: to extend and consolidate prior learning (Level 5) by introducing current and more complex issues relating to financial accounting; to place students in a position to critically review, evaluate and contextualize advanced aspects of practical and theoretical financial accounting, controversial aspects and current issues; to understand and question concepts and practice of financial accounting in a broad context; to develop an understanding of issues that impact on the financial environment and reporting; to be able to present and communicate financial information using a wider range of accounting techniques that may be used by investors and other stakeholders.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
Critically evaluate alternative approaches to management accounting and understand the factors that influence choice in management accounting practices. Understand the behavioural aspects of the management accounting and control process.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
The course is the shell for the one year placement, which is available to all Business Faculty students who have completed Stage 2 (L5) of their undergraduate degree programme. It aims to give students experience of graduate level employment and to allow them to reflect upon and synthesise their learning from the experience of working in such a role.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
This course will explain the firm objective of maximising wealth of the shareholder. The internal policies undertaken by the firm to attain this goal will be examined. Basic finance concepts and tools of analysis used by firms and investors will be understood and applied. These concepts include capital budgeting, risk-return relationships, cost of capital, dividend policy, risk management, and working capital management. Students will also become familiar with the various types of financing available to a firm and how to value shares and bonds. There will be an emphasis on a practical application of the knowledge gained during the course.
In addition to the modules students need to study one optional module
This unit addresses the traditional conflict between corporate strategy and financial management. Business strategy deals with ?creating the future?. The future is by definition uncertain. Corporate strategy is forward looking and focuses on choices between alternatives and deals in mainly, but not exclusively, qualitative issues. Financial management is by definition quantitative and seeks to be a more precise discipline. This course blends the two disciplines into the one course and applies both strategic and financial analysis to enhancing organisational performance. Throughout this course you will explore issues in the understanding of organisational strategic direction and fit, internal and external analysis, option generation and screening, option choice and finally implementation. The whole course will be developed through the use of case studies based upon real organisations and business situations.
To provide students with an opportunity to apply their subject specific knowledge in a year long project whilst learning academic writing skills. This Module will improve student?s project management skills and to manage a project over an extended period of time and improve the student?s research skills.
To introduce basic concepts of financial management by preparing and interpreting cash budgets. To introduce decision-making within business including investment decisions informed by the calculation and interpretation of financial ratios. To introduce the practice of financial accounting by using double entry bookkeeping techniques, extracting a trial balance and preparing financial statements for a simple business.
The aim of this course is to provide students with a broad experiential introduction to key concepts and principles of organisational management.
To increase the student?s ability to gather and manipulate business and statistical numeric data ? Communicate the results of numeric manipulations effectively ? Use common statistical equations necessary to aid interpretation of data ? To increase a student?s understanding of basic statistical concepts such as average, mean, mode, standard deviation, percentage, probability, indices, etc. ? To improve a student?s awareness of statistical software and ability to use common statistical software such as Ms Excel ? To learn about the use of data in business
This is a generalist course which will be of interest and useful to students who are on business as well as other pathways. It attempts to widen understanding of the world of work. The aims are:- 1. To raise awareness of the nature of organisations across many industries 2. To prepare students for their future courses within the University. For those students moving to the Business school this feeds in to Level 1 courses on Organisational Behaviour and generally improves understanding which benefits level 1 courses generally 3. For those going to other Schools it provides a basic understanding of individuals and the work environment which is important in all aspects of work 4. To develop transferable skills no matter what future study or work, raise awareness of and develop a range of both academic and life skills including: a) Research skills b) oral presentations, c) problem?solving and analytical skills d) teamwork 5. To understand the dynamics of individuals within the work environment 6. To have a basic knowledge of how organisations are structured and their relevance to the business operate 7. To develop an understanding of change and its management in the working environment.
This course aims to prepare students for the challenge of studying at undergraduate level, equipping students with essential academic skills. This includes the development of key scholarly and academic skills including, practical experience of using software tools for academic work, on- line information searching, gathering, evaluation and analysis to support studies in higher education, report writing, developing ideas and time management.
Accommodation- Standard (shared bathroom) 39 weeks - 6,805.50 (Total charge)
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