2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS3650 Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance
20 creditsClass Size: 112
Module manager: John Smith
Email: j.e.smith@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2019/20
Pre-requisites
LUBS2205 | Corporate Finance |
LUBS2290 | Intermediate Financial Accounting |
LUBS2295 | Intermediate Mgt Accounting |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Module summary
Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance is designed to develop your higher level technical and professional skills in presenting rounded advice to clients. The module works through a series of increasingly complex case study scenarios designed to reproduce a typical situation in which a professional in the accounting and finance field might find themselves. You will be required to analyse and synthesise complex and unstructured information in order to provide professional level advice and recommendations. The case study scenario will replicate a complex commercial scenario and could relate to a business plan or a corporate transaction such as a merger or acquisition for example. Using this information, and your own research and analysis, you will be expected to provide appropriate professional advice to a specified client on the issue in the form of a written report. Pre-requisites modules are: LUBS2205 Corporate Finance, LUBS2290 Intermediate Financial Accounting and LUBS2295 Intermediate Management Accounting.Objectives
The aim of this module is to provide students’ higher level technical and professional appropriate for presenting rounded advice to clients in complex commercial contexts. The module presents students with an unstructured complex current business case study scenario in which they exercise appropriate professional and ethical judgement to formulate professional advice in the form of reasoned conclusions and recommendations.Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Interpret and outline complex business issues to a professional commercial level and relate them to accounting and finance
- Analyse current commercial issues and evaluate alternative solutions
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Identify problems and define alternative feasible solutions and justifiable conclusions from complex unstructured scenarios and data
- Apply numerical and statistical skills to manipulate and interrogate financial and other numerical data using current communication and information technology
- Apply intelligent scepticism in independently locating, extracting, analysing and critically evaluating arguments, data and information from multiple sources
- Structure and communicate quantitative and qualitative information, analysis, advice and recommendations in the form of a professional quality business report
Subject specific
- Identify issues which raise professional responsibilities and consequences of unethical behaviour and formulate appropriate professional recommendations
- Deploy technical, analytical, evaluative and integrative skills appropriate to a professional in the accounting and finance discipline
Syllabus
Indicative content:
Students will be shown how to analyse a complex case study. However, as the issues raised in the case study scenarios will be topical, it is not possible to specify the detail of the remaining content. The following are the broad headings under which the syllabus content will be delivered: current issues in financial accounting, management accounting and corporate finance.
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Lecture | 10 | 1.50 | 15.00 |
Seminar | 10 | 2.00 | 20.00 |
Private study hours | 165.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 35.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 |
Private study
Students are required to undertake specified pre-reading and case study preparation in advance of the classes based on the material introduced in the lectures. This includes some online pre-reading and formative questions.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
- Students will be able to monitor their progress through fortnightly seminars. Suggested answers and areas for further work will be discussed and circulated;- Formative feedback is provided throughout the course in form of practice case studies in escalating levels of difficulty which will be the subject of peer review marking as well as feedback from the tutor. These practice cases do not contribute to the final mark but provide the student with a benchmark for their understanding of the material covered.
- Teaching staff on the module will be available at set desk times each week to give students the opportunity to deal with problems as they arise and receive feedback on an ongoing basis.
Methods of assessment
Exams
Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
Open Book exam | 3 hr 00 mins | 100.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100.00 |
The resit for this module will be 100% by 3 hour examination.
Reading list
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