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The module will introduce students to the principles and practices of financial and management accounting. It will enable students to identify how accounting techniques can be used to support the management processes of planning, controlling and decision-making. It will also enable students to increase their confidence in evaluating and analysing the financial performance of companies through the interpretation of financial reports.
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The module will help the student to understand, analyse and appraise the systems used by organisations to measure and manage their performance and to implement their strategies in a changing environment. The module will encourage students to consider why organisations measure, what the characteristics of good measures and good measurement systems are.
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The module is aimed at developing knowledge and skills in the application of accounting techniques to financial information for reporting, planning, decision-making, performance evaluation and control. The module also aims to provide students with a good grounding and appreciation of accounting essentials that any analyst, manager or business owner should possess and in doing so, develop the students ability to assemble, from data available, relevant information and prepare appropriate reports.
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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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