Accounting Internship
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| BUSI4362 | Nottingham University Business School China | 4 | 20 | Spring China |
- Code
- BUSI4362
- School
- Nottingham University Business School China
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring China
Summary
In order to receive graduate credit, the students must write a substantial paper regarding their internship experience, highlighting the skills learned. The paper will bridge the student’s academic learning at the University with his or her internship work experience. The paper will accordingly draw heavily upon the student’s internship work assignments and is not something that the student could prepare solely by conducting library research.
Additionally, during the internship, the students must keep a daily diary and reflect on a weekly basis (300 words), documenting their internship experience.
Upon completion of the internship, students will be giving a 20 minute presentation on their internship, subject to questions by both faculty and their employer.
Target Students
Core module for students registered in MSc Accounting
Classes
- Twelve 10-hour placements each week for 10 weeks
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
- 80% Coursework 1: 5,000 Word Individual Coursework
- 20% Presentation 1: Final 20 Minute Presentation
Educational Aims
The internship provides students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills gained from their coursework to a professional work environment. In consultation with a faculty mentor and the sponsoring employer, an accounting internship is selected. This formal, guided learning experience is supervised simultaneously by the student’s employer and the internship program faculty mentor. Benefits of the internship, in addition to the application and refinement of job specific knowledge and skills, include the development of professional relationships, the opportunity to discover professional strengths and areas of needed growth, and an enhanced understanding of the accounting curriculum.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:
•Customers and stakeholders - customer expectations, service and orientation
•The use of accounting and other information systems for managerial applications
•People
•Strategic and operational HRM, meeting future organisational requirements, people development, HR systems
•Communications - the comprehension and use of relevant communications for application in business and management, including the use of digital tools
•Leadership and management of people within organisations
•Leadership, organisational behaviour and motivation
Intellectual skills
This module develops:
•Being able to think critically and be creative: manage the creative processes in self and others; organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately
•Being able to solve complex problems and make decisions: establish criteria, using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business problems; and the ability to create, identify and evaluate options; the ability to implement and review decisions
•Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge, including the use of quantitative skills
Professional practical skills
This module develops
•The ability to conduct research and enquiry into business and management issues either individually or as part of a team through research design, the collection and analysis of qualitative data, synthesis and reporting
•The ability to conduct research and enquiry into business and management issues either individually or as part of a team through research design, the collection and analysis of quantitative data, synthesis and reporting
•The ability to recognise the need for and initiate change and to be able to manage change
•The ability to recognise and address ethical dilemmas, corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues, applying ethical and organisational values to situations and choices
Transferable (key) skills
This module develops:
•Effective communication: networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports
•High personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management; time management; conflict resolution, displaying commercial acumen, the ability to continue to learn through reflection on practice and experience
•Soft skills: understanding the needs of others and empathy towards them; sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations
Conveners
- Dr Huimin Song