Accountancy Business Management

This strand focuses on learning the basic concepts of business and learning associated skills in other related fields like finance, management, corporate and operations.

The Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM) Strand of the Academic Track of Senior High School (SHS) has nine specialization subjects, namely:

Applied Economics

Business Ethics and Social

Responsibility

Fundamentals

of Accountancy,

Business, and Management 1

Fundamentals of Accountancy,

Business, and Management 2

Business Math

Business Finance

Organization and Management

Principles of Marketing

Work Immersion / Research /

Career Advocacy / Culminating Activity

                                                          Course overview

This is a flexible course allowing you to study the fundamentals of accounting and business management with the option to then focus more deeply in either field. This course will prepare you for a career in management accountancy, management consultancy and business management.

If you choose to specialize in business management, you'll graduate ready for a business career with accountancy skills alongside. Over 50% of FTSE 100 CEOs are business leaders with a finance background such as this. You’ll study financial and management accounting alongside the legal, business, and organisational contexts within which they operate. You’ll then deepen your business knowledge with options to study HR, international business, entrepreneurship, marketing and more.

If you choose to specialize in accountancy, you can graduate as a 'part qualified' accountant but with a deep appreciation of its wider business context. You will study in line with professional practice requirements and so maximize the number of accreditations and exemptions you will have upon graduation. Your degree will be accredited with the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Association of International Accountants (AIA).

As with business, you’ll study financial and management accounting alongside the legal, business, and organisational contexts within which they work. You’ll then deepen your accounting knowledge with study options, including taxation, auditing, strategy, and contemporary issues such as social & environmental.

All students will have the chance to work on a finance or business project and enter the CIMA Global Business Challenge and compete with undergraduates around the world.

You’ll also follow your own business engagement programme which will give you first hand participation in live accounting or business environments. We call this 'Make it' and it is unique to the University of Gloucestershire.

                                                        WHAT IS ACCOUNTING?

              Accounting is an information science used to collect, classify, and manipulate financial data for organizations and individuals.

Accounting is instrumental within organizations as means of determining financial stability. Accountants are responsible for determining an organizations overall wealth, profitability, and liquidity. Without accounting, organizations would have no basis or foundation upon which daily and long-term decisions could be made. The budgets for marketing activities, profit reinvestment, research and development, and company growth all stem from the work of accountants. Accounting is one of the oldest and most respected professions in the world, and accountants can be found in every industry from entertainment to medicine. It one of the most necessary lines of work on the planet.

The accounting program at the Saunders College of Business prepares students for a variety of career paths. The Saunders College of Business, as a college within RIT, places an emphasis on technology and innovation in every program we offer. Our accounting program graduates have more than just a deep rooted understading of numbers side of accounting, they are also involved in the implementation of new accounting technologies; as well as taking leadership positions within the field.

                                                    WHAT IS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT?

Business Management is a course of study leading to an A.A.S. degree. The coursework includes both general requirements (liberal arts courses) as well as curriculum requirements (business courses). In addition, each student takes elective courses in one of the following four areas of study: General Management, Finance & Banking, Marketing or Travel & Tourism.

Program Outcomes

• 1. Effectively communicate using the language of business
• 2. Make business decisions using a systematic, evaluative, information-based approach rooted in ethics and social responsibility
• 3. Demonstrate knowledge of current events and trends in business, including potential career tracks in their area of interest
• 4. Master the skills necessary to prepare them to work in an entry-level position and/or continue in the academic field in their area of interest

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