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Overview of Assessment Type
History of Accounting (traditional, alternative histories, issues in the development of the profession – gender etc.)
Roles of accounting in society (FA/MA/Audit/Contemporary issues and settings – environment, sport, singularities etc.)
Application of accounting and relation to management
Professional ethics (for individuals and why individuals might act as they do)
The professional bodies
The professionalisation project (establishment, maintenance, legal aspects etc.)
The future of accounting (societies, evaluation, author, figures vs numbers)

Upon completion of this module you will be able to
LO1: Critically appraise the development of the accounting profession and its activities
LO2: Communicate and work effectively both in groups and individually reflecting the accomplishment through self-directed learning.
LO3: Demonstrate group/time management- and interpersonal-skills, taking responsibility for both individual contributions and group outputs.
LO4: Synthesise complex, critical and developed points into arguments in both written and oral form
LO5: Critically review learning and knowledge, documenting achievement of learning objectives