Course Detail

The Course

This course includes an industry placement of a minimum of 9 weeks, working with an employer. 

Core content:

Students will develop an understanding of a broad range of issues relevant to the sector, including:

• Fundamentals of financial accounting – an understanding of elementary financial principles, concepts and practices and how this content links to relevant accounting, bookkeeping, and business mathematics requirements.
• Professionalism and ethics – an understanding of professional conduct and responsibilities in the workplace and ethical dilemmas for the individual, organisation and professional.
• Data driven innovation and analytics and design thinking – an awareness of key requirements of a data governance framework and understand the main contemporary visualisation tools and when they are best used to support decision making.