Post Graduate Diploma – Accountancy and Finance
Course Summary
Introduction
With a strong practical focus, our Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance will act as a springboard into a wide range of finance and accounting-related careers including progression to a top-up masters degree programme. Today’s business managers need to be able to analyse and interpret financial information and use this to inform business strategy. This course will help you develop this expertise, as well as giving you an in-depth understanding of the contemporary issues encountered by financial managers. The underlying practical focus ensures that the skills and knowledge you gain are highly relevant to the workplace whichever area of accounting or finance you are seeking to engage in.
Strong practical focus
You will develop your knowledge and understanding of accounting and finance, while also enhancing your critical thinking, study skills and analytical skills.
The learner will:
- Analyse and solve complex problems relating to financial reporting, performance measurement and management, corporate strategy and financial management.
- Be encouraged to think critically and creatively about problems requiring a multi-disciplinary approach.
- Develop in-depth knowledge in a specialist topics.
- Enhance your key personal skills in time management, information accessing, analysis and interpretation.
- Develop your interpersonal, communication and management skills through team working, making presentations and writing reports.
Accredited by the IAB
The course is accredited by the Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers. This means you will gain exemptions from several of their professional examinations, giving you a useful head start in your professional studies.
Assessment
Assessments will be a mix of written assignments, supervised mini-projects, role playing, presentations and examinations.
Careers / Further study
The skills and knowledge developed on this course provide you with a wide range of opportunities in finance and accounting-related careers. Many of our graduates choose to specialise further by going on to study for a top-up master’s degree programme, the IAB qualifications and becoming a professional accountant. A proficiency in accounting and financial management, as well as an appreciation of the contemporary issues faced by financial managers, can enable you to progress to senior positions, such as business analyst, finance director, investment analyst, financial reporting manager, chief accountant and head of risk management.
Modules
- Corporate Financial Strategy – Core (20 Credits)
- Strategic Management Accounting – Core (20 Credits)
- Advanced Corporate Reporting – Core (20 Credits)
- Corporate Governance and Strategy – Core (20 Credits)
- Financial Statement Analysis – Core (20 Credits)
- Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance – Core (20 Credits)