Hours: 21 hours per week
Start date: 16th September 2013
Level 8
Fees
EU student: €2,700 pa
Non-EU Ireland: €3,500 pa
Non-EU Abroad: € 5,500 pa
*Above Fees excl. Awarding Body Fees
Length: 3 Years
Content
BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree is awarded by Birmingham City University. The Birmingham City Business School BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree produces organisational and team leaders with key knowledge of the company’s financial data – a rare and valued combination. Students gain not only management know-how and accountancy insight, but key transferable skills to enhance employment prospects. A combination of the crucial Accountancy and Management disciplines enables you to extract the key knowledge presented by a company’s financial data, and answers the management questions posed by today’s most perceptive organisational leaders.
Birmingham City Business School is a Platinum Approved partner of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) – a mark of professional respect.
Honours degree students will study a common first year before continuing onto subject-specific modules in the remaining years of the course. This exciting development is designed to offer students flexibility of subject choice and increase employability
Syllabus
Certificate stage:
- Accounting and Finance
- Economic Environment
- New Venture Creation
- Managing Organisations People and Self
- Marketing in Business
Diploma stage:
- Financial Accounting and Analysis
- Management Accounting
- Creative Problem Solving
- Business Logistics and Operations
- The Business Entrepeneur
- Contemporary Business Issues
Ordinary and Honours stage:
- Corporate reporting
- International Business Strategy
- Making Sense of Organisations
- Business Operations and Systems
- Project/Dissertation
Entry Requirements for BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree
Any applicant who wishes to undertake the BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree will need to satisfy the general admissions requirements of the programme, which are as follows:
English Requirements:
Where the applicant’s medium of instruction (at a tertiary level) was not in English, the applicant must have obtained a minimum of either:
- a score of 575 or better on the TOEFL;
- a score 6.0 or better on the IELTS, or
- furnish satisfactory evidence of a level of attainment in English Language commensurate with studying at Undergraduate level
Prior Qualifications:
For Entry in to the BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree, applicants must have one of the following:
- Grade C2 at higher level in six subjects in the Leaving Certificate examination with a minimum of OC3 level English and Mathematics
- Applications are welcomed from those with international qualifications (equivalent to those above) such as International Baccalaureate 32 points, including internationally accredited Foundation courses.
- Satisfactory completion of a FETAC Level 5/6 full-time course of an appropriate type.
- The programme welcomes applications from mature students.
Assessment:
Assessment is of a practical nature and is undertaken both individually (summative) and as a member of a team (formative). The programme uses a wide range of innovative assessment styles, which range from business reports, academic papers, case studies, individual and group presentations, portfolios and projects, as well as conventional examinations.
Award:
The BA (Hons) Accountancy and Business degree is awarded by Birmingham City University, which is recognized by the Qualifications Assurance Agency (QAA) in the United Kingdom.