Admission requirements
Not applicable
Description
This course is aimed at introducing students to financial and management accounting and related financial management, with an emphasis on basic knowledge of the accounting concepts, rules and principles and the application of these elements to the business environment. The course is structured around six interactive lectures and self-study and designed as an intensive six-week 3 EC course (equivalent to 84 hours). Students examine the accounting function and its role in modern business, Basic accounting theory and principles are examined, and some of the more important contemporary accounting developments are reviewed. This course is designed for consumers as opposed to producers of accounting. The idea is to make the exercises in advance, in order to reinforce your knowledge and understanding. Moreover I will hand over case studies which we will work out in class and related articles as readers. To enliven the presentations, I will share with you personal practical experiences, also to match the link with ICT.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Understand and discuss the role of financial and management accounting and related financial management;
How basic knowledge of the accounting concepts and rules and their impact and application to the business environment;
Critically assess published studies and be able to read, interpret and analyze the primary financial statements and financial reports;
Understand and be able to use and analyze the balance sheet and income statements, based on the accounting equation and accrual accounting;
Understand and be able to use and analyze the statement of cash flows;
Master the skills involved to use accounting information to make judgments about firm performance, including trend analysis, profitability analysis and liquidity analysis.
Timetable
In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.
Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.
Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.
Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.
Mode of instruction
2 hours interactive lectures, presentations and discussions every week, 6 weeks long.
Assessment method
Assessment is as follows:
50% for class participation/presence + assignments on cases that are discussed in class,
50% Exam = Final Exam
In order to pass students must have a total grade of at least a 6 (six).
A week after the grades are released students can reach out to the TA for a date, time & location to view their exams. Should there be any questions about this, the teacher will clarify.
Reading list
Required:
Accounting and Finance for Non- Specialists, 10/E (as from 8/E allowed)
Peter Atrill, University of Plymouth Business School
Eddie McLaney
ISBN-10: 1292135603 ISBN-13: 9781292135601
©2017- Pearson- Paper, 616
Registration
As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.
In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.
There are two enrolment periods per year:
Enrolment for the fall opens in July
Enrolment for the spring opens in December
See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.
Note:
It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.
Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.
Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.
Contact
For all your questions you can contact info@sbb.leidenuniv.nl
Note: If you are an ICTiBPS student, you can contact the programme coordinator of ICTiBPS for any questions about your program.
Remarks
There is only limited capacity for external students. Please contact the programme Co-ordinator
Students are responsible for enrolling/unenrolling themselves for (partial) exams/retakes.
Students who do not enroll themselves for an exam/retake by the deadline are not allowed to take the exam/retake.
Students fail the course if any of the partial components (except the exam) that make up the final mark of the course is assessed below 4.0.
Students fail the course if the grade for the (final) exam is assessed below 5.0.
The final grade is expressed as a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0, including both limits. The result is not to be expressed as a number between 5.0 and 6.0.
If one of the components of the final mark constitutes a component that assesses attendance or class participation, students cannot take a retake for this component. Therefore, students fail the course if their mark for this component is less than 4.0.
Partial grades, inclusive the exam grade will not be rounded. If partial grades will be communicated, it is possible partial grades are rounded, but unrounded partial grades will be used in the calculation of the final grade. The final grade will be rounded at 0.5 (5.49 will rounded down to a 5 and a 5.5 will be rounded up to a 6.0).
Students pass the course if the final grade is 6.0 or higher (5.49 will rounded down to a 5 and a 5.5 will be rounded up to a 6.0).
It is not possible to do retakes for group assignments. Therefore, if students fail the group assignment component, they fail the course.
For courses, for which class participation is an assessment component, students may not be penalised for an absence if the student has a legitimate justification for this absence. The student must notify the program coordinator via email (info@sbb.leidenuniv.nl) of such an absence BEFORE the lecture, describing the reason for missing the lecture. If the student does not notify the program coordinator before the lecture, the student will be penalised. Students may be required to provide further documentation to substantiate their case, and class attendance requirements are only waived under exceptional circumstances such as illness.
Students who are entitled to more exam/retake time must report to info@sbb.leidenuniv.nl 10 days before the exam/retake takes place.
Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.