To introduce knowledge and understanding of the business and its environment and the influence this has on how organisations are structured and on the role of the accounting and other key business functions in contributing to the efficient, effective and ethical management and development of an organisation and its people and systems.

Prepare you for ACCA Paper F1 exam.

Important Notes: Some of the screens in the lessons may bear marks referring to course code prior to the December 2007 syllabus. While there is a revamp of the ACCA syllabus, many of the topics, especially those addressing generic areas are still the same. Our instructors had reviewed the syllabus, and had taken out topics that are no longer relevant, and inserted or replaced lessons to address new topics. The lessons in the module therefore fully addressed the post December 2007 syllabus.

1. The business organisation
2. Organisation culture
3. Stakeholders
4. Information technology and information system in business
5. Business ethics
6. Governance and CSR
7. Environmental influences
8. History and role of accounting
9. Specific functions of accounting
10. Role of management
11. Authority, power and delegation
12. Effective leadership
13. Individual, group and teams
14. Motivation at work
15. Recruitment
16. Selection
17. Diversity and equal opportunity
18. Interpersonal communication skill
19. Employee development
20. Appraisal and competency

Included with this subscription are the following.

1. Access to Outreach virtual classroom lessons
2. Online assessment tests
3. PDF copies of lecture notes.

Click here to download sample lesson. Save the downloaded executable file to your local harddisk. Double click on the file to run and view lesson. The file about 6 - 8MB in size and may take a while to download for slow Internet links.
Note that NOTHING will be installed on your computer when you run this file. Simply delete this file when you do not need it anymore.

Lecturer: Mdm C L Hung

Ms Hung holds a BA from the National University of Singapore. She has more than 20 years of experience in the public sector in the area of research and people resource management. She is a frequent speaker at internal training seminars. She is well versed both in the theoretical and practical aspects of human resource management.

Lecturer: Dr Tay Teng Tiow

Dr Tay Teng Tiow holds a PhD in System Engineering from the Australian National University. He is currently associate professor at the National University of Singapore, as well as adjunct associate professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He has more than 18 years of research and teaching experience in the information system and information technology area. Beside teaching in the universities, he has also conducted numerous in-house workshops for multi-nationals such as HP and Philips in the US, Europe and Asia. He is consultant to many MNCs in the area of information system design. He is also director of many public and private companies, and is well versed in business policy and management.

Terms and Conditions:
For the subscription price stated below, you will have unlimited access to all the lessons in this module, during the access period (as stated below).

Note that the subscription price DOES NOT include ACCA membership fees or examination fees. You will have to liase with ACCA UK, and any membership and examination fees shall be paid directly to ACCA UK.

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