Postgraduate Course: Accounting (MBA) (CMSE11246)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Business leaders need a solid understanding of how their organisation is performing in order to monitor, control, assess, and report on the contribution being made to shareholders and stakeholders. This course provides the skills necessary to understand, interpret and use financial information in a practical business context allowing MBA professionals to become more disciplined and analytical in the way they go about planning, executing and evaluating business plans and strategies. To achieve this, the course will look at the components of a set of financial statements and ways of analysing and interpreting that information, providing a basis for the later study of more advanced financial analysis on the MBA. The course also looks at the various tools used in management accounting, developing the skills necessary to analyse a range of financial decisions which are central to the success of an organisation. |
| Course description |
The lecture programme proceeds through the syllabus using numerical examples where relevant and providing the opportunity in class for both class discussion and individual practice with numbers. The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Learn will be the primary source of information relating to the course. Any announcements and additional information, such as topic slides, topic questions and solutions, assignments and links to additional materials, will be provided through this forum and course participants should use it regularly. The discussion board on Learn will also be used throughout the semester and will be the main forum for you to communicate with other members of the class and with the course lecturer. Course participants will be able to assess their understanding of a topic by completing short online multiple choice assessments.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to Financial and Management Accounting - ethics, purpose and users and regulatory framework.
- Accounting terms and the primary financial statements
- Financial statements of a Company and how to avoid creative accounting.
- Analysing and interpreting financial statements.
- Planning, Controlling and Decision Making tools for Management
- Budgeting for Business
- Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis.
Student Learning Experience:
The course engages with and develops numerical skills, analytical skills and skills of synthesis and presentation. Overall the course provides the grounding necessary for non-specialists to engage in dialogue with accounting professionals and to better understand how organisations (their own and others) are performing.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Online Activities 5,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Other Study Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
58 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
supervised or flipped learning material
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework (all LOs)
End of course group work. Students will complete an analysis of a companies financial statements, and essay question on financial accounting. Students will also be tasked with a budget question, along with an essay question on management accounting. |
| Feedback |
Feedback on the assessment will be returned within 15 working days.
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Outwith Standard Exam Diets December | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the role played by accounting for decision-making in the modern organisation.
- Apply and link the accounting tools to the organizational strategy execution function.
- Critically evaluate many of the seminal contributions in research on accounting for decision-making.
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Reading List
Principal textbook: Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, by and Peter Atrill & Eddie McLaney, 11th Edition.
Publisher: Pearson, ISBN: 978-1-292-06271-6 for paperback
This book is also available in e-book form ISBN: 978-1-29206279-2
Additional references:
Financial and Management Accounting, An Introduction, by Pauline Weetman, 7th Edition.
Publisher: Pearson, ISBN: 978-1-292-08659-0
This book is also available in e-book form.
Details of any additional readings will be given in the weekly study plan released on Blackboard
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive and Subject-Specific Skills:
Demonstrate understanding of a profit statement, cash flow statement and balance sheet.
Demonstrate ability to interpret a set of financial statements using ratio analysis and other analytical tools.
Demonstrate they can present the interpretation through a (succinct) written report.
Recognise key issues relating to the preparation of financial statements
Transferable Skills:
Develop numerical skills (the ability to prepare accounts)
Develop analytical skills (the ability to analyse accounts)
Skills of synthesis and presentation (to write a report on a business based on its accounting statements).
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| Keywords | Accounting Performance Analysis |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler
Tel:
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Angela Muir
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
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