Accounting and Finance - BBs (Hons)

Course Code: A8224

Level

Duration

1 Year Add-On

Department

Business & Financial Services

CAO Points

N/A

Course Type

Undergrad Add Ons

Location

Limerick

This one year add-on incorporates the final year of the full-time, four year level 8 honours course in Accounting & Finance. The course is structured to address many of the competence requirements of professional Accountancy bodies and to give students a range of learning experiences tailored to careers in Accounting and Finance. Its practical focus ensures that on completion you will be a work-ready graduate with employment opportunities in professional accounting practice, commerce, industry, government, the not-for-profit sector and secondary school teaching. Along with the development of your accountancy and finance knowledge, there is a strong focus on developing your management skills to ensure that when you graduate you have the high-level transferable skills that employers are seeking. This programme assumes no previous knowledge of
accounting, finance or economics.

The programme is recognised by leading professional accountancy bodies including: CAI, ACCA, CIMA and CPA. It has also been recognised by the Teaching Council as fulfilling its degree requirement for registration as a post-primary teacher, subject to the complete programme of study being undertaken at TUS (Moylish). As with any other degree, a teaching qualification such as the Professional Master of Education (PME) is also required.

What are the entry requirements?

Leaving Certificate

A minimum of 2 H5 & 4 O6/H7 grades in six Leaving Certificate subjects, including Mathematics and English or Irish.

Mature Applicants

Candidates applying as mature applicants may be required to attend an interview and may be requested to take an aptitude test to prove their suitability for a place on this programme.

International Applicants

International applicants should apply directly to the International Office at TUS, allowing plenty of time for completing the visa process. Applications for September start should be made by 1st June at the latest to ensure visas are processed in time. You should familiarise yourself with visa processing times for your country of origin to ensure you make a timely application. Find out more here.

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What modules will I study?

Year 4 - Semester 1

Title: Auditing Framework And Environment

Credits: 5
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This module introduces students to the role of the external audit and its regulatory and ethical framework. It covers the planning and design of audit procedures to test accounting and internal control systems.

Title: Company Law 2

Credits: 5
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This module is the second of two focusing on the law of companies in Ireland. The module is intended to develop the learner`s knowledge and understanding of company law in relation to minority protection; share and loan capital; capital maintenance and insolvency.

Title: Corporate Governance

Credits: 5
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This module aims to demonstrate how an understanding of corporate governance can aid managerial decision-making. It will cover the subject from a theoretical and practical perspective with a strong emphasis on the relationship between theoretical concepts and real-world issues. The module will address several interconnected topics such as regulatory and legislative requirements, board structure, risk management, internal controls, managerial opportunism and the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance. Engagement and participation are two key elements of the learning process and will help learners develop their analytical and communication skills.

Title: Financial Management Analysis

Credits: 5
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This module introduces the learner to the role of the financial manager within an organisation. In addition, the learner will be introduced to issues such as: sourcing finance, investment appraisal, working capital management and business valuations

Title: Financial Reporting - Ifrs

Credits: 5
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The aim of this module is to allow the learner gain the necessary knowledge and exercise professional judgement in the application and evaluation of financial reporting issues in entities based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Title: Strategic Decisions

Credits: 5
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This capstone module aims to enable learners to analyse the central issues pertaining to analysing organisations' strategic positions and to help learners make strategic choices.

Title: Tax Planning

Credits: 5
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The module provides an advanced knowledge and understanding of the principles of the Irish taxation system relating to tax planning, which allows learners to develop their research and cognitive skills to enable them to solve tax planning problems whose contours we do not even know yet.
Year 4 - Semester 2

Title: Auditing Fundamentals And Cyber Security

Credits: 5
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This module module introduces the learner to core auditing concepts such as compliance testing, substantive testing and audit reports.

The concept of cyber security is also introduced.

Title: Ethics & Sustainable Business

Credits: 5
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This module will enable learners to explore the challenges to business associated with the economic, social, and governance demands arising from climate change, sustainable development, and other social /economic issues. These issues will be explored through an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework by examining the many approaches to ESG that all major companies and many SMEs are adopting. It aims to deliver a broad understanding of theories and concepts of business ethics taking a critical look at how these are enacted in practice. The implications of ESG for business strategy will also be considered.

Title: European Business & Commercial Law

Credits: 5
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The aim of this module is to provide learners with an understanding of the legal rights and obligations of persons and undertakings engaged in commerce and business in Ireland and in the global marketplace. Students will experience, inter alia, the dynamic Socratic method of teaching law so as to allow them take genuine intellectual risks in the classroom, and thereby learn critical thinking, reasoning and logic, attributes that are essential when dealing with the practicalities of professional life.

Title: Financial Reporting - Groups

Credits: 5
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The aim of this module is to allow the learner gain the necessary knowledge and exercise professional judgement in the application and evaluation of consolidation of reporting entities based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Title: International Tax Planning

Credits: 5
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This module is the second of two focussing on tax planning. This module builds on the knowledge acquired in the Tax Planning module. The focus is again on problem based learning with the emphasis in this module being on and international tax planning, and vat planning.

Title: Strategic Corporate Finance

Credits: 5
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This module will introduce corporate strategies for managing capital structure, risk and return, and emerging issues in the every changing world of finance.

Title: Strategic Management

Credits: 5
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This capstone module aims to enable learners to put organisations' strategic choices into action.

Are there opportunities for further study?

Successful graduates of this programme are eligible for Level 9 and 10 postgraduate programmes within the institute and/or elsewhere. Successful graduates of this programme who wish to continue their studies towards professional accountancy accreditation can benefit from ‘fast track’ agreements with one or more of the professional bodies.

What are the career prospects?

Positions that graduates can work in include:

Trainee Accountant in professional practice, industry and/or the public sector
Trainee Tax Advisor
Funds Analyst
General management opportunities across a range of sectors
Secondary School Teaching (subject to the pursuit a Professional Master of Education (PME) degree programme)
Leading employers include Deloitte, EY, PwC, Grant-Thornton, BDO, Mazars, BOI and Northern Trust"

Paul Kelly - Accounting & Finance