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UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK
GUIDE TO MODULE SELECTION BOOKLET
Academic Year
2013/2014
Autumn
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page Number
Introduction 3 Department Offices 3 Kemmy Business School 5 Faculty of Education and Health Sciences 10 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 14 Faculty of Engineering and Science 25
DEPARTMENT OFFICES
Room No. Department Office E0001 Admissions Office
DM044 Accounting and Finance
B2014 Chemical and Environmental Sciences
S121 Computer Science and Information Systems
E0005 Co-operative Education
KB3-22A Economics
MC1-002 Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
FG013 Law
SR2019 Life Sciences
D2030 Electronics and Computer Engineering
EO030 ERASMUS/SOCRATES/International Education Division
AM065 Information Technology
KB3-018 Marketing and Management
B3027 Materials Science and Technology
D2034 Mathematics and Statistics
SR3020 Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
KB3-035 Personnel and Employment Relations
B2040 Physics
P1024 Physical Education and Sports Science
D0033 Plassey Campus Centre (Accommodation)
F1018 Politics and Public Administration
E1006 Print Room
S109 Second Level Education
E0001 Student Academic Administration INTRODUCTION
MODULES The University of Limerick operates a modular system with continuous
assessment. A module is a self-contained package of education taught
during a single academic semester. Visiting students may choose from a
wide range of modules and may cross register between faculties and
departments. Acceptance on these modules is subject to academic
prerequisites, timetabling constraints and ceilings on enrolments. The
module descriptions that follow present an outline of the salient topics
covered in each module. Normal course load is 5 modules per semester. MODULE CODES The first two letters of the code indicate the subject area to which the
module belongs. The FINAL numerical digit of the code corresponds to the
semester of study in which the module is normally taken by Irish students
i.e. year one modules end in 1 (Autumn semester) and 2 (Spring semester).
year two modules end in 3 (Autumn semester) and 4 (Spring semester) and so
on until year four. These codes should be used as a guide to the level of
each course.
The three digit codes found at the right of a module title represents the
number of corresponding Lecture, Tutorial and Laboratory hours (in this
order). KEY * Prerequisite standard is necessary for entry into these modules
+ A minimum number of students are necessary before these modules are
offered The contents of this booklet are for information purposes only and should
not be viewed as the basis of a contract between student and the
University. No guarantee is given that modules may not be altered,
cancelled or otherwise amended at any time. AUTUMN
SEMESTER
MODULES
Kemmy Business School - Autumn
AC4001 Principles of Accounting (Autumn/1) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/1st semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6 This module introduces the student to the fundamental concepts and
practices of financial accounting. Accounting is presented as a
manifestation of various social and political pressures, which required
that techniques be developed to account for trading and wealth. The topics
covered include accounting in its political, regulatory, historical,
social, economic, corporate governance and international contexts;
introduction to the theoretical, conceptual and regulatory frameworks of
accounting; traditional accounting model; capital, income and profit and
measurement; principles of double entry bookkeeping; books of prime entry,
ledgers, trial balance, internal controls, use of computers in recording
and control of data, construction of final accounts for sole traders,
partnerships and limited companies; accruals, prepayments and adjustments;
depreciation and stocks; distribution of profits; profit and loss accounts
and balance sheets, cashflow statements; nature, purpose, scope and
framework of auditing.
AC4007 Advanced Financial Reporting (Autumn/4) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/1st semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6 This module considers accounting principles and policies that apply to
certain international accounting standards, from the perspective of
external users of financial information (including equity holders). The
pedagogic approach adopted here is the joint application of a theoretical
and practical exploration of these specific international accounting
standards. These advanced financial accounting issues include lease
agreements, the cost of retirement benefits, earnings per share, group
financial statements, accounting for provisions, contingent liabilities and
assets, and the treatment of events after the reporting date. The complex
accounting treatment of financial instruments is also examined, along with
its continuous revisions. The accounting treatment of deferred tax is
analysed to demonstrate how accounting rules differ from tax rules when
calculating profit for tax purposes. These international accounting
standards and issues are studied in light of their historical development
and students are encouraged to critically examine current accounting
regulations. Prerequisite AC4014 AC4213 Financial Accounting (non-business) (Autumn/ 2) 4 hours per week; 13 weeks/3rd semester; 26L/26T; ECTS credits:6 This module introduces the non-specialist student to the fundamental
concepts and practices of financial accounting. Accounting is presented as
a manifestation of various social and political pressures, which required
that techniques be developed to account for trading and wealth. The topics
covered include accounting and auditing in their political, regulatory,
historical, social, economic and international contexts; introduction to
the theoretical, conceptual and regulatory frameworks of accounting;
corporate governance; traditional accounting model; nature, purpose, scope
and framework of auditing; the impact of information technology on
accounting systems; capital, income and profit measurement; accruals,
prepayments and adjustments; depreciation and stocks; distribution of
profits; profit and loss accounts and balance sheets, cash flow statements;
reconciliation of operating cash flows to operating profits; financial
statements analysis, financial ratios and performance analysis. This
module is designed to be a prerequisite for the module AC4204 Management
Accounting and Finance, offered in the spring semester. AC4305 Financial Information Analysis (Autumn/3) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/5th semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6 User needs, corporate report, decision-usefulness approach; accounting
information and capital markets, efficient markets hypothesis; accounting
information and security prices; financial market information; presentation
of accounting information; companies acts, EU directives; analysis of
financial statements; recognition and measurement issues; substance over
form; performance indicators; ratio analysis; uses and limitations, of-
balance sheet financing, creative accounting; corporate social reporting;
forecasts and budgets. Prerequisite AC4204 AC4417 Management Accounting 1 (Autumn/4) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/7th semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6 Objectives, scope and framework of management accounting; management
accounting and organisation control; cost accumulation for stock valuation
and profit measurement; product costing systems; application of cost-volume-
profit techniques; marginal costing and non-routine decision making;
accounting information for pricing decisions.
Prerequisite AC4204 CM4203 Communications (Autumn/1) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/1st semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6
Communications in its social, economic and cultural context: information
society; role of new technologies; media; postmodernism; argument
analysis, reasoning, structuring and defending arguments; persuasion:
psychology of persuasion and motivation; advertising as persuasion,
including codes of visual communication; persuasion and the spoken word;
style: effective writing strategies for various contexts (academic,
journalistic, informative, persuasive etc.); presentation. EC4003 Intermediate Microeconomics (Autumn/2) 3 hours per week; 13 weeks/3th semester; 26L/13T; ECTS credits:6 This module builds on the introductory microeconomics module. It extends
the analysis of producer and cost theory. It also extends the analysis of
market structures (focusing on imperfect market structures) and introduces
the issue of pricing and allocation of the factors of production. The
latter part of the module looks at the economics of information and how
choices are made under conditions of uncertainty. Finally, the student is
introduced to the notion of general equilibrium and welfare. Using this
framework, market failure and the rationale for government intervention
(government sector) are examined. Theory of production and costs. Models of
imperfect competition and game theory. Factor markets. The economics of
information and choice under unce