BSc (Hons) Accounting
Professor Judy Day - Programme Director
judy.day@mbs.ac.uk
Viv Browne – BSc Accounting Programme
Administrator
vivien.browne@mbs.ac.uk
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Presentation Structure
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Course Aims
Learning Outcomes
Programme Structure
1st year course choices
Finding Information
English, and Skills Development Support
Important Contacts
Accreditation
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Programme Aims
The BSc Accounting programme aims to:
• Meet the needs of students who are seeking a
career in accounting, business or related areas
• Provide a thorough grounding in the theoretical
knowledge and practical skills necessary for
such careers
• Offer substantial exemptions from professional
accountancy examinations and the opportunity
for students to undertake relevant experience
via an internship year that will give a head-start
towards obtaining full professional qualification
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Programme Aims
The BSc Accounting programme aims to:
• Provide students with knowledge and understanding of
the conceptual and applied aspects of accounting as an
academic discipline
• Provide a varied and challenging mixture of teaching and
learning experiences
• Encourage and enable students to acquire practices of
independent thinking and learning, developing students’
powers of critical thinking, enquiry and logical expression
• Develop core skills: computer literacy, numeracy,
problem-solving, written and oral communication,
teamwork, project management, and report writing
• Place accounting in its broader economic,
organisational, social and political contexts
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Learning Outcomes
• Understand, describe and critique the contexts
in which accounting and auditing operate and
the key areas of accounting and finance
• Critically evaluate theories and evidence related
to core aspects of financial and management
reporting, auditing and accountability and
finance
• Record and summarise transactions and other
economic events; prepare financial statements;
analyse business operations
• Exercise powers of inquiry, logical thinking, and
critical analysis of arguments and evidence
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Learning Outcomes
• Understand the theoretical and practical aspects
of auditing and taxation
• Synthesise and evaluate data and solve
problems
• Plan, execute, and report on a piece of
independent research in the form of an
academic report
• Develop appropriate transferable skills and take
responsibility for personal development
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Structure of Programme
• 3 / 4 year programme, two semesters
each academic year
• Each year involves 120 credits of study,
this consists of taking course units
(normally 10 credits or 20 credits)
• You will normally take 60 credits in each
semester but a 70/50 or 50/70 is possible
• Optional internship year comes after your
second year of study
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1st year – compulsory courses
Compulsory courses – semester 1
Credits
BMAN10501 Financial Reporting
10
LAWS10261 Introduction to English Law
10
ECON10041 Microeconomic Principles or
ECON10081 The UK Economy – Microeconomics
10
Compulsory courses – semester 2
Credits
BMAN10512 Introductory Management Accounting
10
BMAN10522M Financial Decision Making
10
ECON10042 Macroeconomic Principles; or
ECON10082 The UK Economy – Macroeconomics
10
Compulsory courses – both semesters
Credits
BMAN10760 Auditing & Professional Accounting
Practice
BMAN10750 Quantitative Methods for Accounting and
Finance
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1st year course choices
• You have 20 credits of optional courses to
select
• These can be chosen from the courses
listed on the next slide although you
should have completed and returned your
course choice form to Viv
• The choice is yours, though you may like
to bear in mind that the ideal is to have 60
credits each semester
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1st year – optional courses
Optional courses – semester 1
Credits
BMAN10791 People and Organisations
10
BMAN10801 Introduction to Work Psychology
10
Optional courses – semester 2
Credits
BMAN10812 The Modern Corporation
10
SOCY10912 Work, Organisations and Society
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Economics Courses
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If you have A-Level Economics or equivalent qualifications, then you will be
enrolled for:
ECON10081 UK Economy – Microeconomics &
ECON10082 UK Economy – Macroeconomics
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If you have not got A-Level Economics, then you will be enrolled for:
ECON10041 Microeconomic Principles &
ECON10042 Macroeconomic Principles
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At the end of this talk, there will be an Economics course list that you can
check to see which Economics courses you will be studying
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If we have been unable to assess your level of Economics, a letter will be in
your arrival pack telling you that it is essential that you attend the
Economics course registration session on Tuesday 20 September
between 2:30pm – 3:30pm MBS East Room B8 to see an Economics
tutor to ensure you are enrolled on the correct courses.
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BMAN10750 Quantitative Methods for
Accounting and Finance
• Reminder: you have been sent pre-course reading for
this module
• It is important that you have bought the textbook before
the module starts next week
• You should read through chapters 1 to 4 and attempt
the text box questions before next week
• This is to help you check your level of understanding – if
you find sections easy, then skip and move on
• There are extra seminars in weeks 1 and 2 to help you
with any difficulties you find with the reading
2nd year – compulsory courses
Compulsory courses – semester 1
Credits
BMAN20081 Financial Statement Analysis
10
BMAN21061 Introduction to Business Information
Systems
BMAN20881 Professional Accounting Practice
10
Compulsory courses – semester 2
10
Credits
LAWS10302 Business Law I
10
BMAN20812 Business Strategy
10
Compulsory courses – both semesters
Credits
BMAN21020 Financial Reporting & Accountability
20
BMAN21040 Intermediate Management Accounting
20
BMAN23000B Foundations of Finance
20
You will also be able to select an optional course of 10 credits from available
accounting, finance or other related subjects
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Internship year
• The internship year is optional
• It will take place between your second and
final years of study
• You will start to apply for a placement
during the summer after your first year on
the programme
• You will be given further information about
the internship year as part of Auditing &
Professional Accounting
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Final year – compulsory courses
Compulsory courses – semester 1
Credits
BMAN30131 Accountability & Auditing
10
BMAN30091 Financial Derivatives
10
LAWS20301 Business Law II
10
Compulsory courses – semester 2
Credits
BMAN31642 Principles of Taxation
10
Compulsory courses – both semesters
Credits
BMAN31610 Corporate Financial Communication & Valuation
30
BMAN30030 Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting &
Regulation
20
You will also be able to select optional courses totalling 30 credits from
available accounting, finance or other related subjects
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Feedback
• You will receive feedback on your work in
various forms:
– Non-assessed coursework may be marked and
returned to you
– On-line quizzes on Blackboard
– Comments on group or individual presentations
– Generic feedback on examinations
• The objective is to help you monitor your
progress and improve your performance
• Further information in the MBS Undergraduate
Welcome Guide
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Blackboard
• Blackboard is the University-wide virtual learning
environment for students and a virtual blackboard space
will be attached to each first year course.
• Further details on this will be covered in Thursday’s
induction session.
• You can log in to Blackboard via your student portal
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Work and Attendance Monitoring
• Attendance at all seminars, tutorials, labs and workshops
is compulsory and will be monitored
• If you are unable to attend a class because of illness or
other good reason, you need to complete an ‘absence
from class form’ and submit it to the undergraduate
office. Forms are available from the UG office (D20) or
can be downloaded from the MBS UG intranet.
• If a student misses 3 or more consecutive seminars,
tutorials, labs or workshops this will be followed up by
the Assessment and Student Support Centre. We have a
duty to make sure students attend classes and do not
have any serious problems that are the cause of nonattendance.
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English proficiency and language
classes
• Students whose first language is not English can take
English language proficiency tests and sign up for
English language classes if necessary. Further details
will be covered at Thursday’s induction session
• We strongly recommend that you take a test if you are
unsure about whether your command of English will be
enough to enable you to cope with the demands of the
programme
• Information on help available can be found at
http://www.ulc.manchester.ac.uk/english/academicsupport/
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Time Management
• Key to 1st year success!
• You are responsible for
your own learning and the
time management
implications of this!
• Organisation and
discipline required to
juggle and balance social
life and University
responsibilities
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Study Skills
• Auditing and Professional Accounting (20
credits) will incorporate the following:
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Study Skills
Academic Advisor Sessions
Personal Development Plans
Practice Essay on which feedback will be given
• You will be informed who your academic advisor
will be on Wednesday 21 September in the
ICAEW session
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Medical / Personal Problems
• In case of medical, personal or other problems
of a serious nature which have (or are likely to
have) an adverse effect on your studies, ideally
students should seek help from their academic
adviser, the Assessment and Student Support
Centre (ASSC) at D14 (Absence, Illness, Forms)
and the Programme Administrators.
• NOTE: It is important that the School is
informed about issues affecting your study
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Student Representatives
• We need volunteers for the role!
• Student reps will sit on the Programme
Committee and attend the MBS UG Staff
Student Liaison Committee
• All interested (including self nominations)
students should go to the undergraduate
office (D20) for a nomination form by Monday
3 October
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Peer Mentors
• Peer mentoring is designed to provide
pastoral support to first year students. All
of the mentors are trained second or third
year MBS undergraduate students
• You will meet with your mentors during
Welcome week, details of these meetings
is included in your arrival pack.
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Student Surveys and
Questionnaires
• We often ask you to help us by completing
student surveys and questionnaires
• These may be about one of your courses, or
about other aspects of your teaching and
learning
• Or we may ask you to take part in focus groups
on specific topics
• We value your help with this, as it helps us to
improve the quality of your experience at MBS
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Progression Rules
• The minimum overall pass mark will be 40% to progress
from one year of a programme to the next for the Degree
of Bachelor
• To progress from one year to the next, a student must:
– reach the minimum pass mark overall (40%); and
– reach the pass mark (40%) in individual courses totalling at least
100 credits of the 120 credits for that year; and
– reach the pass mark (40%) in all designated core courses. For
the first year these are BMAN10501, BMAN10512 and
BMAN10522; and
– reach the compensatable fail mark (30%) in all remaining
courses (a maximum of 20 credits)
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Accreditation
• ICAEW exemptions granted based on your
performance in certain core courses –
these include first year courses
• Need an overall pass mark of at least 50%
to be granted the exemption
• Details of courses attracting accreditation
can be found on the student intranet at
http://ug.mbs.ac.uk/intranet/secure/pae/paa/icaew.aspx
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BSc Accounting
Welcome Reception
You are invited to attend the Welcome Reception
event immediately after the ICAEW event on
Wednesday 21 September
Please come along to the reception area of
Crawford House on the mezzanine floor
Good luck for the
forthcoming year!
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