Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (Honours)

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

This programme is specifically designed to provide students with:

• The necessary skills, key competencies and required knowledge for today’s fast moving business world.
• Maximum exemptions from the professional bodies.
• Competency not only in preparing and analysing financial reports but also to successfully guide and lead their organisations.
• Emerging technologies on accounting & finance knowledge and soft skills will be embedded in the programme as early as Level 1.

Students will learn fundamental skills required by every accounting and finance professional, and the basic understanding of the legal, business and social environment in which accounting operates. They will familiarise themselves with business processes through the accounting software and the world leading enterprise resource planning software, SAP. Students will have the hands-on training with the system.

A broader range of skills will be learnt, in which students will gain a better understanding of  traditional areas of Accounting and Finance, such as Management Accounting, Taxation, Financial Management, Advanced Corporate Reporting, Forensic Accounting etc. Technology savviness is the soft skills that important to nurture the students for independent learning and to prepare them for the workplace and for further research. We will expose them through modules such as Emerging Technologies for Accounting and Finance and Data Analytics in Accounting and Finance.

Students will undertake an Internship/Industrial Training for a minimum period of 16 weeks to prepare them for a smooth transition from the classroom to the working environment.

Sustainability is a multi-dimensional perspective on finance and accounting. To expand the application of technologies and problem solving skills after students return from their internship, modules such as Reflective Practice in Accounting & Finance and Robo Auditing & Analytics will be exposed to students by having capstone projects and hands-on training with the Robotics Process Automation (RPA) software. Students will expose to the effects of a decision or activity on the environment, society, and governance (ESG) modules such as Strategy, Sustainability and Leadership and Seminar in Accounting & Finance. A final year project requires them to explore a topic individually – they will demonstrate their academic and practical aspects of their ability in the chosen area of study.