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Faculty of Business and Accounting Level 3

Certificate in Accounting

Build essential financial and quantitative expertise with a Foundation degree in Accounting. Master core financial principles, ethical business practices, and preliminary strategic project management.

Program Overview

The Foundation of Accounting degree program prepares the students with the required skills for managers with fundamental skills required to study in finance and accounting field with creative ideas. The finance and accounting helps students to become conceptual thinkers and will be well prepared to be qualified professionals to apply their professional skills in today global business and financial institutions. Students are also required to undertake a self-selected project. The students will have a supervisor assigned to them post agreement of the topic.

The composition of this course is based upon the attributes that an effective employee, or a graduate, should ideally have:

📌Developed personal skills with both the confidence and ability to express their creativity both individually and as part of a team;
📌Gained the ability to promote a responsible, professional attitude towards the selection and use of data and skills within team based contexts;
📌Had an in-depth understan📐ding of business knowledge and to develop their critical awareness of new emerging case studies in business environment;
📌Developed a comprehensive awareness of the wider cultural, social, political, economic and ethical implications in the business firms;
📌Applied comprehensively their knowledge and skills to a piece of work on business administration through the Honours Project to reflect the programme being studied.

In addition to the broad aims of the course, the specific qualities built into the curriculum ensure that students will gain a systemic understanding of new development and application, and the capacity to analyse, assess and recommend high level strategies. The specific objectives of this course, therefore, are to provide students with the skills and knowledge of key subject areas that relate to sustainability at operational, tactical and strategic levels for modern business environment. The course’s objectives are to equip students with:

📌the aptitude to solve problems within various settings;
📌the competence to develop concepts and apply them in pragmatic ways;
📌advanced analytical skills that can be used within organisations;
📌a perceptive insight into management related issues;
📌the ability to understand policies in local and global contexts and the capability to see legislation as emergent resultants;
📌a good understanding of how the preliminary studies of business project can impact on the success of the implementation of that project;
📌the aptitude to think and plan strategically in the design of business projects;
📌a good understanding of the societal implications of emerging issues in business organizations;
📌aptitude to analyse, synthesise, critique and evaluate various means of business administrations, deployment and leading edge ideas.

Career Pathways

Junior Accounting Assistant, Accounts Payable/Receivable Clerk, Junior Financial Analyst, Bookkeeper, Audit Support Assistant, Finance Operations Trainee

Entry Requirements

For IGCSE, students are required to pass a minimum of 5 or maximum of 14 subjects.

What You'll Learn

  • Apply fundamental accounting and financial principles to analyze business transactions, evaluate financial data, and support corporate operations
  • Evaluate economic, political, ethical, and societal implications to guide responsible financial decision-making within modern organizations
  • Utilize analytical and conceptual thinking skills to address management challenges across local and global financial contexts
  • Design and execute an independent, supervised business research project demonstrating creative problem-solving and strategic planning capacity.

Curriculum Structure

Units

6 months
Unit Code Level Credit Unit Name Core / Option
FS 1101 3 15 Foundation of Business Firms Core
FS 1102 3 15 Business Communications Core
FS 1103 3 15 Fundamentals of Financial Management Core
FS 1104 3 15 Concepts in Financial Markets and Institutions Core
FS 1105 3 15 Principles of Marketing Core
FS 1106 3 15 Introduction to Accounting Core

Duration

6 Months

Intake

March, July

Awarding Body

STI Myanmar College

Tuition

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