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Subject BACHELOR OF ARTS - ACCOUNTING

Qualification: BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
Award Type and NFQ Level:
Course code: ARTS
CAO/PAC code: MH101
Points: 320
QQI: Yes click here for details
Closing date: 01 July 2019
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  • You'll gain financial literacy skills, a life skill, to help you make informed financial decisions.
  • Learn how to deal with the world of business and to pursue rewarding career opportunities.
  • The option of transferring in to one of our designated degree programmes and the end of first year.
  • Through Arts you can combine the study of Accounting with a wide range of other subjects to suit your interests.
 
To become a professional accountant, you need to successfully complete three levels of professional exams as well as on the job training. If you successfully complete one of our specialised degrees in Accounting - the BA Accounting and Finance, the BCL Law and Accounting or the BBS Business and Accounting - you will be exempt from the first level of these professional examinations.
 
If you complete the Masters in Accounting at Maynooth, you will be exempt from the second level of these examinations. You will then only have to take one level of professional exams and complete on the job training to qualify as an accountant. No other accounting programme can get you to your end goal any faster!
 
1st year
  • 15 credits of Accounting (group 6). There is an option to take another 7.5 credits of Accounting in the 2nd semester
  • Plus choose up to 3 other subjects or Critical Skills from the 5 groups available 
 
2nd & 3rd year
  • Take Accounting and one other subject to degree level (as a Double Major)
  • Optional 10 credit Electives in 2nd year

or

  • Apply to transfer into one of our specialised degrees in Accounting having achieved 60% or more in 1st year Accounting (MH403/MH407/ MH502 LWA - subject to conditions being met).
 
O4/H7 Leaving Certificate Mathematics recommended.
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