Commerce

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Course Overview

Commerce is a very flexible programme that covers all business areas before a student chooses a specialism in final year in one of the following:

Accounting & Performance Measurement: Students study accounting and accounting-related modules, positioning them for a career in accountancy and related areas. Depending on the modules chosen, exemptions are available to successful students in the professional accountancy bodies’ exams. In addition, students may apply for entry, on a competitive basis, to the Master of Accounting (MAcc) programme at NUI Galway or equivalent postgraduate accounting programmes in other universities.

Accounting Exemptions from Professional Accounting Bodies. 

Economics & Public Policy: Students can apply their economic theory to modules as diverse as the economics of globalisation, the economics of money and finance, and health and environmental economics. Economics specialist students are well placed to undertake either postgraduate research at home or abroad, or to embark on a variety of careers in business and economic policy analysis.

Management of Human Resources: This specialisation focuses on the management of the human factor in organisations, exploring the nature of the employment relationship and the rights and obligations of the parties involved. It also focuses on the theoretical bases for the best utilisation of human resources (HR). It is targeted at students with a particular interest in the human aspect of organisations and those intending to develop a career in the HR management area.

Marketing Management: This specialisation provides an excellent foundation in a range of key and popular marketing topics, such as media and marketing communications, brand management, marketing analytics and research, digital marketing planning, the marketing of services and global marketing. The discipline’s research programme enhances each subject’s content, ensuring it is taught to world-class standards.

Digital Business & Analytics: This specialisation focuses on the implementation, use and management of information systems within business. It contains practice-based modules that teach students how to create IS using database technology, web design technology and computer programming languages. It also provides modules that enable students to investigate how to manage IS within business. Students will be well positioned to secure jobs as management consultants specialising in IS or to work within the IS department of a business.

Finance: This specialisation focuses on a diverse range of important contemporary topics in national and international finance, including international monetary systems, banking, exchange rates, financing and investment decisions, taxation, financial reporting, investments and issues of financial management inherent in managing multinational corporations and institutions. Students will be readily employable in private sector financial services firms as well as both Irish and international public sector financial institutions.

Business Law: This stream focuses on law specifically in a business context. It is targeted at students with a particular interest in the legal aspects of business. Students who successfully complete this stream and wish to further specialise in law will be eligible to apply for the LLB.

International Business: This specialisation focuses on managing people, diversity in culture and how to effectively lead and manage in a global marketplace. The specialisation focuses on developing knowledge and expertise in international business and cross-cultural management and provides students with the knowledge and skills required for a career in international management and multinational corporations as well as other organisations. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students develop their cultural awareness skills and understand how to operate effectively in a dynamic global business environment.

The programme provides students with a mix of large lectures and smaller group tutorials where they can ask further questions and get help with coursework.  Our lecturers’ links with industry ensure that the programme is up-todate, relevant and useful to today’s graduates and employers.  Specially tailored modules such as Skills for Business which is now taken by second year students. This one–semester module is designed to improve student employability and preparation for the workplace by developing a set of practical skills that form the basis for effective working life. The programme allows students to work individually and in groups on different projects which are relevant to the ever-changing and dynamic business environment, thus developing their business and interpersonal skills.

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Course Outline

Course Outline - Year 1

• Introduction to Managment/Financial Accounting
• Principles of Microeconomics/Macroeconomics
• Mathematics and Statistics for Business
• Contemporary Marketing Thought
• Contemporary Management Thought
• Business Information Systems & Information Management for Business
• Choice between Spanish*, German and the combination of Business Law (semester II)/Skills to Succeed (semester I).

       * A limited number of places are available in Spanish, places will be allocated on previous academic performance.

Course Outline - Year 2

• Inferential Statistical Methods for Business
• Marketing Management
• Organisational Psychology
• Applied Microeconomics for Business
• Management Accounting 1
• Skills for Business
• Business Finance 1
• Work and Employment Relations
• Macroeconomics and the Business Environment
• Information and Operations Management
• Plus two optional subjects from the following:
  • International Financial Reporting I
  • Economics of Public Policy
  • Introduction to Financial Economics
  • Business Law II
  • The Psychology of Consumer Behaviour
  • Information Systems & Project Management
  • Advanced Statistical Methods for Business
  • Management of Organisational Change
  • Doing Business in China: Language and Culture I

• Ireland in the Global Economy
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Business Strategy
• Innovation: Creativity and Enterprise
• Develop concentration in one of the following business disciplines: 

  Accounting & Performance Measurement
  Economics & Public Policy
  Management of Human Resources
  Digital Business & Analytics
  Marketing Management
  Finance
  Business Law
  International Business

  Enterprise

In addition to the above-listed disciplines/streams, students may take optional modules from a list of electives.

Modules are assessed by means of continuous assessment/assignments and/or final/terminal exam. 

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Further Education

Graduates can take specialist postgraduate programmes, which are available in all of the core business disciplines.

Accounting graduates may be eligible for admission to the Master of Accounting programme at NUI Galway or elsewhere.  Graduates of the Masters of Accounting programme are eligible for significant exemptions from the professional examinations of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and are required to pass only the Institute's Final Admitting Examination prior to being admitted to Associate membership of the Institute.

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