Accounting With Economics - BA (Hons) - Full-time
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These days, accounting is about so much more than crunching numbers. The added focus on economics in this course will widen the application of your accounting skills to include strategic roles which explore and utilise trends in the global marketplace and national economies. This will further enhance your career opportunities. Accounting and economics at corporate level is complex, and brings into a play a number of expert skills.
In this course, you'll develop the skills, creative thinking and strategic planning that you'll need to successfully chart a business' course through financial waters. Most importantly, this course is accredited by the major UK accounting institutes including the I…
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These days, accounting is about so much more than crunching numbers. The added focus on economics in this course will widen the application of your accounting skills to include strategic roles which explore and utilise trends in the global marketplace and national economies. This will further enhance your career opportunities. Accounting and economics at corporate level is complex, and brings into a play a number of expert skills.
In this course, you'll develop the skills, creative thinking and strategic planning that you'll need to successfully chart a business' course through financial waters. Most importantly, this course is accredited by the major UK accounting institutes including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). Useful for rapid progression into the industry, these accreditations indicate the strength and industry-relevance of this course. The Accounting and Finance group also received the highest possible recognition from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) for the quality of its teaching. Through this course, you'll learn and develop a combination of accounting, economics and other business skills, including specific accounting techniques and policies relating to corporate finance, tax, auditing, corporate governance and statistics. You'll learn to use relevant IT systems, and acquire relevant knowledge of law, economics and the economic environment. In addition, transferable skills of time management, project management, communication, collection and management of data, and IT skills will all serve you well in the future, whatever your eventual field of work. View Full Screen
What's involved You will study six modules per year, over two trimesters. The course will involve a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed learning and independent study. While the bulk of the course is identical to that of the BA Accounting degree, economics modules will also be incorporated. On successful completion of Year 3, you will be eligible for unclassified degree, or an Honours degree on completion of Year 4. The course is also available on a part-time basis which involves fewer than six modules per year but takes longer to complete. Below you'll find an indication of the compulsory modules you could study. These will be supplemented with choices from a course-specific option pool: Year 1 Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; Introduction to the Financial Services Sector; Principles of Economics; Accounting Information Systems; plus one option module Year 2 Corporate Accounting; Business & Corporate Law; Reporting Corporate Performance;, Financial Management;, Management Science & Statistics; World Economy Year 3 Advanced Corporate Reporting; Advanced Management Accounting; Corporate Financial Management; Business Economics; plus two option modules Year 4 Dissertation, plus four option modules
Requirements at a glanceEntry to the courseTypical year 1SQA HigherBBCC A LevelCCC Irish Leaving CertificateB2, B2, C1, C1 Subjects requiredStandard Grade (3 or above) English and Maths, GCSE (Grade C or above) English and Maths Typical year 2SQA Advanced Higher A Level300 UCAS Points from Advanced Highers/ 3 A Levels, in Business-related courses HNCAccounting course, with A in Graded Unit Typical year 3HNDAccounting course, with AB in SQF level 8 Graded UnitsFees Table2012/3 2013/4 Scotland £1,820 £1,820 European Union £1,820 £1,820 Rest of UK £6,500 £6,630 Overseas £9,690 £10,080 Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.
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