About Informatics Academy

The Informatics Academy has been institutionalized to ensure that its award, bearing the quality assurance mark, will be recognised and accepted by employers and universities for employment and transfer credit respectively.

The Informatics Academic Governance is the backbone on which the quality of our awards is judged. Collectively, the Academic Council interacts with the International Advisory Panel and thereby empowers Examination Council and Examination Board the authority to grant the Informatics Academy awards.

Represented by a group of respected and experienced academic leaders drawn from universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, each member of the International Advisory Panel brings with them a wide range of educational leadership and management experience. The Academic Council is responsible for the academic affairs for Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Business, Finance and Management, Institute of Engineering and Institute of Knowledge Economy.

You can get more information about the Informatics Academy from the following link: http://www.informaticsgroup.com/ia

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About NCC Education

Originally part of the National Computing Centre, NCC Education started offering IT qualifications in 1976 and from 1997 developed its Higher Education portfolio to include Foundation and Business programmes. With Accredited Partners in over 45 countries, five International Offices and Academic Managers worldwide, NCC Education employs the latest technologies for learning, assessment and support.

NCC Education qualifications range from ICT for schools to the International Degree Pathway in Business or IT. The programmes are recognised by universities, professional bodies and employers. Learners are able to upgrade their skills on professional development modular programmes or complete their University Degrees and Masters in their home country or in the UK.

Visit NCC Education official website: http://www.nccedu.com/

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About the Programme

The programme is intended for those seeking a career in Accounting. It arms prospective students with the knowledge and disciplines required in the Accounting area of the business.

This programme also satisfies the growing demand for a course offering in-depth study that lead to a higher degree of specialisation. It aims to train and prepare students with a blend of educational knowledge and practical experience with the ability to prepare financial statements and information in accordance with basic accounting concepts and conventions in accordance with current accounting standards and practice.

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Programme Benefits

Provides candidates a with a higher level of knowledge and skills appropriate to the application of Accounting

• Grasp the fundamental principles, theories and concepts of accounting and analysis of Accounting information sources
• Understand cost behaviour, profit control
• Ability to use, analyse and interpret accounting statements and information for management and decision-making
• Understand the roles of business and corporate law, economics and statistics applicable to Accounting arena

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Entry Requirements

• International Diploma in Accounting awarded by Informatics Academy and NCC Education
• The Associate of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) Level 1
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Level 1
• The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) fully completed
• Certified Accounting Technicians (CAT) fully completed
• Other equivalent qualifications deemed appropriate by Informatics Academy and NCC Education

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Programme Duration

The programme is conducted over a period of 12 - 36 months.

Programme Structure

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Programme Pathway

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Programme Synopsis

Financial Reporting
This module combines more advanced accounting theory and techniques. It is designed to equip students on financial reporting in accordance to regulatory framework, and also the analysis and interpretation of financial statements and decision making. Students should be able to apply what is learned.

Company Law

Introduction and history of company law, promotion of the company and reincorporation problems

• The Memorandum and Articles or Association
• Classes of shares and class rights
• Management and accountability - Directors and their duties; self-dealing
• Insider dealing
• Misdistribution of power within companies
• Minority protection and shareholders remedies
• Corporate governance
• Corporate responsibility for tort and crime
• Liquidation and administration

Management Accounting 2

• The use of management accounting information for planning, control and decision making
• Cost relevance and uses of cost, cost volume profit analysis, relevant costs (including limiting factors), pricing policy, risk analysis and cost estimation
• Budgeting and budgetary control and standard costing, interpretation of variances and control

Business Organisation

The aim of this syllabus is to develop student's knowledge and understanding of:

• The need to integrate operations management and marketing within the strategic decision-making of the organisation
• Application of proactive operations management to the creation of added value to the organisation
• Planning and control of operation to improve productivity, quality and reliability and reduce costs
• Marketing principles are covered to analyse, plan, implement and control policies designed to achieve marketing and corporate objectives

Quantitative Methods

This unit aims to reach an overall understanding of how and why statistical and mathematical techniques are used in economic and business decisions. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyse, present and interpret statistical data using basic statistical and mathematical procedures.

Information Technology Management

This unit covers the concept of information system, major types of management information systems and how each supports the manager in an organisation. Potential strategic roles of information systems within the organisations are identified. Students will be able to use some basic systems development tools in order to apply information Systems in business problems.

Managerial Economics

This unit examines how an organisation can achieve its aims or objectives most efficiently through the application of microeconomic theory and the tools of analysis of decision science such as statistics and quantitative methods. It shows how economic analysis can be used in formulating business polices.

Business Finance

This module aims to introduce students the basic ideas of business finance. To provide methods of finance-related techniques used for marketing; to describe the operations of financial markets.

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