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Your experience of Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Accounting

  • 26-09-2011 9:35pm
    #1
    phonejacker
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    I'm currently in year two Bachelor of Business GMIT. Is year two of Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Accounting much more difficulty than year one cause year one of Business (Honours) in Accounting and year one of Bachelor of Business are the same?


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  • #2
    Dellboy2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dellboy2007


    There's no comparison between the business programme and the accounting programme. With all due respect the accounting degree is about 27 times harder.

    Disclaimer:

    27.5 times


  • #3
    phonejacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭phonejacker


    Dellboy2007 wrote: »
    There's no comparison between the business programme and the accounting programme. With all due respect the accounting degree is about 27 times harder.

    Disclaimer:

    27.5 times

    The two courses have the same modules in year one (when you finish year two of business you can switch courses and go into 2nd year accounting).


  • #4
    Dellboy2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dellboy2007


    Ya you can switch and do year 2 again in the Accounting programme. The course is intensive. Some honours degrees in Accounting are 4 years, so the fact it's squashed into 3 makes it quite hard. Good exemptions out of it: ACCA F1-F9, Chartered Accountants of Ireland CAP 1 and others also. There is some of the best lecturers in the country on the course, who lecture for more than one of the professional bodies. It's no easy ride, but then again no Accounting programme is. If you'd prefer to do sweet F*** all in college and still come out with a good overall mark than go for the BBS, if you think you can commit yourself to the course and are prepared to put in some serious hard graft, go for the BBS in Accounting. I might add that this course will cover as much AND more as ANY other accounting degree in the country.


  • #5
    phonejacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭phonejacker


    for the accounting course do have to be gifted with some magical accounting powers or if you try your best you will get on reasonably fine?


  • #6
    Dellboy2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dellboy2007


    That's open to debate, some peoples' best is not always good enough; sad, but true. I wouldn't say you need any magical powers, good logical and analytical thinking could come in handy however. Moreover, an eagerness to work should put you on the right path. This might seem obvious, but, you have to want it. Not just doing the course for the sake of being in college and pleasing your mammy.


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  • #7
    ted2767
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭ted2767


    phonejacker wrote: »
    for the accounting course do have to be gifted with some magical accounting powers or if you try your best you will get on reasonably fine?

    Hard work is the main talent needed.
    Obviously mathametical skills are advantageous as is interest in the business world but hard work and application will get you a long way.
    It's a good degree and is worth it but beware that other colleges have a better reputation and frustratingly grads from these courses will get jobs easier than gmit grads.


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