ACCT40315: Financial Accounting and Reporting

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• To enable students to:
• acquire and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of financial accounting and reporting concepts and ethical issues, and the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to particular cases involving single entities or groups;
• prepare single entity and consolidated financial statements covering a range of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS);
• acquire and demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of accounting-based techniques of financial statement analysis.

• Introduction to financial accounting;
• Presentation of financial statements;
• Ethical duties of accountants;
• Reporting the financial performance of and position of single entities and groups (IFRS);
• Application of a select range of IFRS standards to particular cases involving single entities or groups
• Analysis and interpretation of financial statements
• Differences in international financial reporting

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of this module students should be able to:
• explain the purpose and limitations of financial statements with reference to the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting;
• identify relevant professional ethical issues;
• prepare and present financial statements from accounting data for single and group entities in conformance with IFRS, and explain the application of IFRS standards in particular cases;
• prepare and present analysis and interpretation of financial statements employing accounting-based techniques;
• appreciate the differences and similarities in international financial reporting.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of this module students should:
• have practised problem-solving and analytical skills in the financial accounting and reporting context.

Key Skills:

• written communication;
• planning, organising and time management;
• problem solving and analysis;
• using initiative;
• numeracy;
• computer literacy.

• A combination of lectures, seminars and guided reading will contribute to achieving the aims and learning outcomes of this module.
• The summative examination will test students' knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter, their critical judgement and problem-solving skills.

Online test. Additional formative assessment, and feedback, may take a number of forms such as oral feedback on work prepared by students for seminars; answers to questions either discussed during a seminar, or posted on discussion boards.

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