Key words
Integrated Cases; Course-crossing Case; IWETO-codes: S192 Bookkeeping Sciences, S141 Tax Law and S190 Corporate Policy
Objectives
- This course tries to integrate all strived for competencies during the education
- Obliges students to up-date their knowledge and refine their skills and attitudes as a run-up to their work placement.
Topics
The final-year students work at an interactive case study:- Handle a real life administration with reporting of bookkeeping, tax law and the corporation law (concerning each phase of the event of undertaking)
- Evaluate alternatives in strategic and corporate decisions
- Close off the project with a general meeting
- Practical elaboration by means of various software packages
Prerequisites
Acquired competencies in the courses of the first and second year of the education.
Final Objectives
Knowledge
Job-related (specific):- Knowledge of judicial, economical and accountancy documents
- Knowledge of the techniques of reporting
- Knowledge of the specific packages of bookkeeping on the PC and the possibilities of the programs
- Knowledge of the technical terminology
Skills
General:- Thinking and reasoning power
- Being critical
- Working thematically
- Working independently
- Decisiveness
- Updating knowledge
- Consulting sources
- Acquiring and assimilating information
- Communication skill: ability to communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions both to specialists as to laymen.
- Thorough command of the mother tongue (both oral as in writing)
Job-related (general):- Ability to perform simple executive tasks
- Ability to negotiate
- Ability to coordinate and guide a team
- Insight in human relations
- Being socially skilled in a team, for instance when performing assignments
- Determine one's own deficits and deficits of co-workers both in the field of profession-oriented knowledge and in the field of social and communication skills
- Organising (analysing, outlining and making a hierarchy) of information
- Analysing information and tracing anomalies
- Handling numerical data
- Reporting in writing
- Ability to express oneself correctly
- Ability to make a report independently
- Ability to work efficiently with the PC
- Ability to organise one's own work as well as the work-organisation
- Work efficiently, with an eye for the output
- Long-lasting concentration
- React appropriately to unexpected events
- Acknowledge problems
- Ability to think in an analytical and problem-solving way
- Thinking logically
- Trace down the weak and strong point of both individuals as the organisation itself in a critical way and steer where necessary
- Insight in complex situations
- Apply packages of informatics (most recent ones concerning the profession)
Job-related (specific):- Being communicative towards customers and co-workers
- Directly leading a team
- Establish contact with the various administrations and institutions, customers
- Check in an efficient and effective way whether the collected information and documents are correct, complete and up-to-date, point out the difficulties and put in supplements. If it is necessary make adjustments in order to establish improvements.
- Collect, register and classify profession-oriented information· Understand and distil the offered information in function of the posed problems
- Ability to evaluate and apply bookkeeping on the computer
- Ability to handle information in the field of economics, tax law and accountancy
- Ability to come to an accurate description of the problem through listening and phrasing questions and being able to distinguish main points from side issues
- Ability to calculate the financial consequences of various approaches
- Ability to come to conclusions quickly
Attitudes
General:- Responsibilities
- Reliability
- Loyalty
- Involvement
- Integrity
- Sense of cooperating
- Being critical
- Being creative
- Having an eye for quality
- Precision and accuracy
- Inquisitiveness
- Self-confidence
Job-related (general):- Discretion
- Awareness of image
- Oriented at providing services
- Co-ordination with others
- Openness
- Oriented at communicating
- Willingness to listen
- Willingness to innovate
- Being flexible
- Neatness and tidiness
- Result-oriented
Working systematically- Inquisitiveness, continuously updating knowledge
- Assertiveness
- Perseverance
- Ability for realization
- Being immune to stress
- Independence - ability to work independently
Job-related (specific):- Showing awareness of quality, loyalty and assertiveness when talking to your employer
- Working systematically and goal-oriented
- Having interest in the organisation and structure of the bookkeeping firm or the company
- Watchfulness concerning the confidentiality
- Willingness to take responsibility
- Willingness to establish contact with clients and co-workers
- When talking to clients be evidence of commercial insight, empathy, persuasiveness and awareness of quality
- When talking to co-workers be evidence of assertiveness, empathy, loyalty, solidarity and sense of working together
- Having a willingness to grant service to clients and co-workers
- Ability to handle conflicts
- Being interested when dealing with information in the field of economics, tax law and accountancy
- Being selective in that information
- Awareness of quality
- Ability to plan the various activities when completing the files
- Sense of completeness
- Being practical
- Having an eye for details
- Add value to the available information
- Sense of structure
- Distil goal-oriented or relevant information
- Being accurate when phrasing questions
- Willingness to refine the solution one step at a time
- Sense of relativity
- Withstand work pressure
- Willingness to go deeply into a problem
- Willingness to gain advice yourself
- Being critical towards one's own conclusions
- Evaluate own capabilities where the limits of competence or knowledge are exceeded
Materials used
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Scenario
Manual of specific accounting software
Study costs
Scenario and manual: unit price determined under Hogeschool rules
Costs linked to the execution of various assignments.
Study guidance
Steering and coaching of students during the sessions guided self-study.
Teaching Methods
Group work and group guidanceInteractive method of question-and-answer
Guided self-study, lecturer coaches and steers where it is necessary.
Assessment
- First exam session: 100% continuous assessment
- Second exam session: 100% written exam (partly working out on the computer)
Students only enrolled for taking the exams:- First exam session: 100% written exam (partly working out on the computer)
- Second exam session: 100% written exam (partly working out on the computer)
Lecturer(s)
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