Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management (Top-up degree)

• A critical understanding of the key strategic decisions that a business mayhave to make and appreciated how accounting and finance can assist in making and evaluating those decisions.
• A critical understanding of specific analytical skills in key decision areas within strategy and finance at local and international level.
• A critical understanding of the limitations of the current state of financial theory in making strategic business decisions.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• Competence in applying the key valuation concepts and methodologies of financial decision making to contribute to the wider decision making of the organization.

• A Critical understanding of a range of key strategic management accounting models and concepts.
• A Critical understanding of the strategic role of management accounting at local and international level.
• A Critical understanding of the merits and limitations of management accounting theory.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• How to apply the key management accounting concepts and methodologies in order to contribute to successful decision making in an organisation.

• An ability to explain the operation of  financial markets and understand their importance.
• An ability to explain  key theories and models of financial markets including  the efficient market hypothesis, and understand  key implications.
• An ability to analyse the operations and the  efficiency of  financial markets.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• An ability to identify and collect appropriate financial data and indices including share prices to carry out analysis of operations and efficiency of financial markets.

• A critical appreciation of the current key issues in international financial reporting.
• A critical understanding of the conceptual framework as a paradigm for accounting.
• A critical understanding of the uses and limits of financial information.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• An ability to demonstrate cognitive skills of critical thinking and analysis.

• Critically evaluate and apply a range of skills and techniques associated with the management of projects.
• Demonstrate capability to evaluate projects from a financial, human resource and time related perspective.
• Appreciate the requirements for control and the application of control mechanisms.
• Evaluate the relationship between time, cost and quality, and understand the alternative approaches available for managing them.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply and evaluate tools and techniques associated with the management of projects.
• Demonstrate diagnostic skills.

• Knowledge and understanding of how a range of factors in the domestic and international environment impact on business.
• A deeper knowledge and understanding of how specific external environmental factors impact on a particular organization in a designated industry-sector.
• Appreciate the requirements for control and the application of control mechanisms.
• An in-depth knowledge and understanding of how a particular organization in a designated industry-sector has responded to specific external environmental factors.

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• An ability to research, analyze and explain how a range of factors in the domestic and international environment impact on business.
• An ability to research, analyze and explain how specific external environmental factors impact on a particular organization in a designated industry-sector.
• An ability to critically evaluate how a particular organization in a designated industry-sector has or might respond to external environmental factors.