Currently I’m transitioning into my second year of my
Accounting and Finance, BA Hons degree. I enjoyed the first year but it went
very quickly. During the year I studied five modules, which included
introduction to financial accounting, business and financial environment,
quantitative analysis and systems, professional and personal development in
addition to management accounting and ethics in organisations.
The support I received during my course was amazing as my
tutors were always there to help and give me more feedback on my work. I enjoyed studying four of my modules especially quantitative analysis
and systems mainly because it was all maths based as well as business and
financial environment which I was most confident about because I knew plenty about
this subject. The module that I did not enjoy the most is management accounting
and ethics in organisations, because after learning most of the practical in
term one along with all the theory and we were then taught what remained of the
practical syllabus afterwards. As you can imagine this would be very confusing.
Whilst on the course I was introduced the employability
passport which many of the business school students would know about. At first
I was sceptical about taking part in it but after going to various seminars and
collecting points from a range of events and activities, I was able to see what
else I did during the year which was great. I joined different programmes which
were offered to assist me as an accounting and finance student like the IBM
mentoring scheme and the employability classes. This allowed me to learn more
about my options as well as being more involved and meeting new people.
A subject that was brought up during the year was
placements. I had no clue what that meant but after hearing about other
students experiences in addition to learning more about it, I was able to
understand the benefits and why the business school gave many talks about the
topic. After taking everything into consideration I decided to change the mode
of my course to a four year programme. Now I am applying for placements and I
am hoping to gain a placement with one of the top four accounting firms.
Elizabeth
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