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BU553Z: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING (2023-2024)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:43


Course Overview

This course provides students with basic knowledge of financial accounting, its sources including double entry bookkeeping, its processes, and its uses; financial reporting, its regulation, interpretation, and audit; accounting theory; and how financial reports are used when conducting a fundamental analysis of an entity.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Alan Sangster

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Introduction to Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, its regulation, interpretation, and oversight through audit, Accounting Theory, and Fundamental Analysis.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35 Feedback Weeks 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35

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Feedback

4x20 mins tests (12.5% each)

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralCreateSynthesise data and information to produce accounting information
ReflectionEvaluateApply accounting principles when interpreting financial information
ReflectionEvaluateAppraise the effectiveness and structure of accounting regulation
ReflectionEvaluateEvaluate company performance, financial position, and threats

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateEvaluate company performance, financial position, and threats
ProceduralCreateSynthesise data and information to produce accounting information
ReflectionEvaluateApply accounting principles when interpreting financial information
ReflectionEvaluateAppraise the effectiveness and structure of accounting regulation

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