BX3011 - Company Accounting

This subject is concerned with accounting for the formation, operations and winding-up of companies, and the disclosure of relevant corporate information in financial statements. The following areas are covered: (a) company formation, accounting for share issues and reorganisations (b) tax-effect accounting (c) disclosure requirements (d) business combinations (e) consolidated accounts and (g) liquidations.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate an understanding of accounting for the formation of companies;
• prepare accounts for business combinations and reorganisations;
• prepare accounts for liquidations and receiverships;
• prepare group accounts;
• conduct tax effect accounting.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

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