Financial Accounting 1

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• basic principles and accounting concepts underlying the preparation of financial statements.
• the main users of financial statements and their needs;
• the elements and structure of the main financial statements for sole traders, partnerships and companies;
• methods of recording transactions, as a basis of financial statements, and for control within the organisation;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• explain frequently used accounting terminology;
• recognise and discuss measurement problems arising in Financial Accounting;
• prepare simple financial statements from structured and unstructured information;
• appreciate and explain the significance of choices of accounting policies;
• read and infer information from simple sets of accounts;
• develop intellectual skills associated with analysing, recording, communicating and evaluating financial information, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques, for stewardship and decision making.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• show developed self-management skills.
• demonstrate learning, numeracy, problem solving and written communication skills;

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Mock Examination

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: You will receive feedback during seminars.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Report

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Individual audio feedback, and general feedback session during lectures.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Mock Examination

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: You will receive feedback during seminars.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Classes and office hours
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.