Professional Practice

Code

BUSI3128

School

Business

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year UK

Summary

An introduction to a variety of models and exemplars to support students in understanding and articulating their personal learning style and negotiation of the journey from new undergraduate to BSc Accountancy graduand. This is the final module undertaken in the degree. It emphasises the employability skills and professional development aspects of the programme and also requires students to reflect upon the integrated placement segments of the programme.

Target Students

BSc Hons Accountancy students.

Classes

• One 1-hour seminar each week for 2 weeks
• One 1-hour lecture each week for 5 weeks

2 x 1 hour timetable seminar (one in semester 1, one on the Monday of week 1 of semester 2), remainder one-to-one coaching calls. The remaining contact time takes the form of individual consultations while the students are on placement in semester 2.

Assessment

• 100% Report 1: Individual 3,500 word reflective report. Reassessment of this module is 100% coursework

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:
•    The management of customer expectations, relationships and development of service excellence
•    The use of accounting and other information systems for planning, control, and decision making

Intellectual skills
This module develops:
•    The ability to analyse and evaluate a range of business data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies, which includes the need for strong digital literacy, and to use that research for evidence-based decision-making
•    Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation

Professional practical skills
This module develops:
•    Self-analysis and awareness/sensitivity to diversity in terms of people and cultures. This includes a continuing appetite for development.
•    Commercial acumen based on an awareness of the key drivers for business success, causes of failure and the importance of providing customer satisfaction and building customer loyalty

Transferable (key) skills
This module develops:
•    Communication and listening including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media
•    An awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in generating business contacts
•    Self-management and a readiness to accept responsibility and flexibility, to be resilient, self-starting and appropriately assertive, to plan, organise and manage time
•    Articulating and effectively explaining information
•    Emotional intelligence and empathy

Conveners

• Mrs Lara Gee