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Module code: ACFI 3214
Module description
During this module you will:
- Review the contexts within which auditing can be seen operating within an organisation and review how the auditors fit into the accounting world.
- Evaluate and correctly apply the main technical language and practices of auditing.
- Review and test transactions and other financial events to arrive at an 'audit conclusion.'*Evaluate contemporary theories and empirical evidence relating to the auditing of financial statements
Learning Outcomes:
- Evaluate selected strategic management theories in the context of modern organisations
- Review the role of corporate business and functional strategies in achieving organisational objectives
- Appraise and deploy selected analytical tools appropriate to major functional domains of an organisation with specific reference to the human factor
- Review and deploy significant strategic formulation tools (such as BCG, Ansoff, Porter) with the context of a modern organisation
- To demonstrate an ability to solve typical business problems within a case study environment
- To demonstrate the ability to work in small groups to solve given business problems
- To demonstrate the ability for the critical evaluation of theories and situations
- To demonstrate the ability to research, extract, analyse data and draw reasoned conclusions
- To demonstrate the capacity for independent and self-managed learning
- To demonstrate the ability to effectively use information technology
- To demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively a number of complex ideas and data via a variety of media to a variety of audiences
- To demonstrate the ability to write effective reports for, and verbally sundry finding to, a well informed audience
Contact hours per student per year
- Lectures: 22 hours
- Tutorials: 11 hours
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