DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY AND FINANCE -
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
JOINT HONOURS DEGREE IN ACCOUNTANCY AND
COMPUTER SCIENCE
(run from October
1973)
Within
the field of business data processing the two disciplines of accountancy and
computer science are becoming more and more inter-related. At present it is
possible for accountancy students to take a computer course (systems analysis
and design) and similarly computer science students can study accountancy and
finance. The proposed degree course is a logical development from this. It is
relevant both on academic grounds and also in the belief that such a course
will attract high quality applicants because of its worth in the market place.
The
degree will be at Honours level and the combination in depth of studies in both
accountancy and computer science justify this. The
degree will be designated BA (Accountancy and Computer Science) and it will be
administered jointly by the Departments of Accountancy and Finance and Computer
Science. Alterations to regulations concerning, and reports relating to, the
degree will be submitted to both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of
Science and so far as Faculty approval is necessary for any matter this will be
required to be given by both Faculties. Students will be enrolled directly into
the course but it will be possible to transfer into the existing BA
(Accountancy and Finance) and BSc (Computer Science) courses at the end of the
first and second years of the course.
It is
the intention that the student intake to the joint degree course should be of a
very high calibre since the proposed course is an extremely demanding one. It
is not intended, however, to offer an ordinary degree in Accountancy and
Computer Science after three years.
The envisaged
starting date of the course is October 1973.
Student numbers will be assumed to be taken out of, on an equal basis,
the student numbers which Senate has prescribed for both departments. Initially
the course will not require increases in staff as the existing courses are
already available within the University.. The one
exception is the elective course in actuarial mathematics. The additional staff
required to support the final year of the course (one lecturer in each
department) will be within the increases in staff which both departments would
anticipate during the next quinquennium.
HONOURS BA
DEGREE COURSE IN ACCOUNTANCY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
PROPOSED COURSE
STRUCTURE
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|
Number of Hours/Week |
Number of Exam Papers |
|||
|
|
|
Lecture |
Tutorial |
Workshop |
Total |
|
|
First Year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
33.101 |
Accounting I |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
|
12.101 |
Computer Science I |
2 |
1/2 |
6ø |
9/10 |
1 |
|
32.101 |
Economics I |
3 |
1 |
- |
4 |
1 |
|
11.105 |
Pure Mathematics I |
4 |
2 |
- |
6 |
2 |
|
|
Total |
12 |
5/6 |
7 |
24/25 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second Year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
33.201 |
Accounting II |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
|
12.201 12.202 |
Computer Science II |
4 |
2 |
6ø |
12 |
2 |
|
11.208 |
Statistics I or Actuarial Mathematics |
1 |
1 |
- |
2 |
1 |
|
|
Elective Subject |
2/3/4 |
1/2 |
- |
3/4/5/6 |
1 |
|
|
Total |
10/11/12 |
5/6 |
7 |
22/23/24/25 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Third Year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
33•301 |
Accounting III |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
|
12.301 |
Computer Science III |
3 |
1 |
6 ø |
10 |
1 |
|
33.302 |
Finance |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
|
12.310 |
Systems Analysis& Design I |
2 |
1 |
- |
3 |
1 |
|
|
Total |
11 |
4 |
8 |
23 |
4 |
|
Final Year |
|
|
|
|
|
6
papers + dissertation |
|
|
Systems Analysis &
Design II |
2 |
1 |
- |
3 |
|
|
|
Three from: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
33.402 |
Business Finance |
2 |
1 |
- |
3 |
|
|
33.403 |
Managerial Accounting |
2 |
1 |
- |
3 |
|
|
12.401 |
Computer Science IVA |
2 |
1 |
3 ø |
6 |
|
|
|
Computer Science IVB |
2 |
1 |
3 ø |
6 |
|
|
|
Project with Dissertation |
1 |
- |
5 |
6 |
|
|
|
Total |
9 |
4 |
8/11 |
21/24 |
ø Guided Program preparation
15th February, 1971
Copied from the Senate Minutes of 7.3.72,
Appendix A