Accounting and Finance

RebelLAD1

Does anyone do this course ? Going into 6th year now and considering doing it. What is it like? Only problem is I don't do accounting In school as our school didn't offer it. Has anyone done this course having not done accounting for the leaving?

olazbabes

Just finished Lc. I am starting this corse in a few weeks .I'll let you know how I'm getting on.

doyoumrjones

My sister did it.I am considering doing it but don't do accounting and she says that loads of people on her course didn't have accounting and were fine

Neon_Lights

May be a bit late, but I did it, got a 2.1 and enjoyed the course, did not like the heavy financial accounting element in it, and struggled a bit with it.... thats the main thing you may have to work on. I loved management accounting and economics and management in the degree.

Theres a broad range of options in final year which you can specialise in, its a really worthwile degree if you want to be a problem solver or quantitatively minded in all aspects or areas of a business. Not just a standard BS degree its more, and more highly valued I think. What I picked up and I didn't realize, you can solve problems and analyze better than the standard business degree. I ended up in IT, others ended up in Economics and Finance, some in HR and Marketing, others did the standard masters in accounting and sold their souls to the BIG 4 for 3 years.

Pretty.Odd.

Didn't do this course but did another with accounting. Didn't have accounting for my Leaving cert. I managed it and got out the other end but I wouldn't recommend it. Too stressful and way too much "basics" that I still struggle with. Luckily my course was mainly business so I only had a couple modules of accounting a year, definitely couldn't imagine myself just doing accounting.

olazbabes

I love accounting. Im in first year accounting and finance now and it is not that much accounting yet. I do law, management, economics and computers it. So far its grand . The degree leaves me with a lot of options. I personally dont like Business studies. I,ve always wanted to do something more specific. Not that it is bad. The course is really varied. I would reccommend accounting because it is challenging and you are more likely to get a job as well. In general college is hard work. there is a difficult element in every course. Also you specialise in final year. It doesn't matter if you didnt do LC accounting. loads in my class didnt. The lectures start from the beginning very basic. Apparently in my college most students who didnt do Acc work harder than those who have done it. some people who done are confindent and dont perform as much as they expected. Everything is hard work

Neon_Lights

olazbabes wrote: »

I love accounting. Im in first year accounting and finance now and it is not that much accounting yet. I do law, management, economics and computers it. So far its grand . The degree leaves me with a lot of options. I personally dont like Business studies. I,ve always wanted to do something more specific. Not that it is bad. The course is really varied. I would reccommend accounting because it is challenging and you are more likely to get a job as well. In general college is hard work. there is a difficult element in every course. Also you specialise in final year. It doesn't matter if you didnt do LC accounting. loads in my class didnt. The lectures start from the beginning very basic. Apparently in my college most students who didnt do Acc work harder than those who have done it. some people who done are confindent and dont perform as much as they expected. Everything is hard work

Different back in my day, marann byrne melted it out of us with financial accounting, class of 08 fo lyf yo.... billy kelly for economics was great.... worst class was john carroll and financial maths... ugh...wait till next year though. If im correct, mary canning and advanced international accounting is a bit of a sweat.

RebelLAD1

whats the maths content of this course like? id be grand at accountancy side of things but im just scraping by in honours maths

olazbabes

RebelLAD1 wrote: »

whats the maths content of this course like? id be grand at accountancy side of things but im just scraping by in honours maths

Im only doing maths for Semester 1. Its ok really . its like leaving cert maths.

Neon_Lights

RebelLAD1 wrote: »

whats the maths content of this course like? id be grand at accountancy side of things but im just scraping by in honours maths

For accounting subjects, as long as you can + - / x you're grand, accounting maths is fine, you have to select financial mathematics as an option but i would avoid, its pretty tough, did grand but put a lot of effort in compared to other options out there.

RebelLAD1

niceone sounds good! do you know what the exemptions like as appose to other colleges?