| Head of Department: Dr Gillian Armstrong
The Department
is based at the University’s Jordanstown campus. It strives
to be recognised as a leading provider of Accounting and Business
education, encompassing both the delivery of high quality teaching,
and the production of quality contributions to Accounting research.
The Department
offers a well established suite of academic and professional accounting
courses, providing opportunities for entrants to study accounting
at undergraduate level, and from there to progress onwards to a
Masters degree. The academic
accounting programmes, full-time and part-time, gain significant
exemptions from parts of the professional examinations of the major
accounting bodies, for example:
Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Graduates from other disciplines are also able to
pursue a one-year intensive programme of study - the Graduate Diploma
in Accounting - thus enabling them to advance rapidly through professional
programmes. The Department also offers the most widely accepted
professional accounting courses, namely the Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants (ACCA), and the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (CIMA).
The BSc (Hons) Business Studies is one of the most popular undergraduate
programmes offered by the Department; this programme has the added
value of a year’s industrial placement leading to the award
of the Diploma in Industrial Studies. The BSc (Hons) Accounting
also provides for an optional placement year with students having
an excellent opportunity to enhance their employability through
the development of practical and professional skills.
The suite of
programmes serves the needs of business areas that continue to be
in high demand in the regional, national and global economies, demand
is likely to continue to be buoyant in the foreseeable future, and
graduates will go on to play important roles in the development
of Northern Ireland's economic base, and elsewhere.
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