The document summarizes a 3-year Bachelor of Commerce degree program at UCD. The program focuses on core business subjects like accounting, economics, finance, and management through three pillars: Innovation and Enterprise, Business in Society, and Personal Development. Students take a variety of required courses in their first, second, and third years covering topics such as accounting, marketing, finance, and strategy. High-performing students can apply for internships or study abroad opportunities. Graduates will be prepared for careers in business or further study in graduate programs.

1. Student Name: Alexey Chaplin
Student ID: 2278941
Date: 08 February 2017
Subject: Business Information System
Tutor: Gerry Mc Cann
Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcomm)
Duration: 3 Years (4 with Internship)
CAO Code: DN650
CAO Points 2016: 500
Start: September

2. ABOUT THE COURSE
"Personal Development pillar helps you identify and build your skills"
The new generation BComm brings together excellence in the core functions
of business with new themes for new times. Three pillars underpin the new
curriculum, alongside your study of accounting, economics, finance,
management, marketing, human resources and information systems.
The Innovation and Enterprise pillar focuses on creating
and delivery of new businesses, ideas and ways of doing
things. By focusing on Business in Society, you will engage
with challenges of our time, such as employment, human
wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and the global
economy, and the ways business and society depend on
each other. Finally, the Personal Development pillar helps
you identify and build your skills and goals during your
BComm journey.

3. WHY IS THIS COURSE FOR ME?
The BComm at UCD is a challenging course designed for ambitious and achievement-
oriented students who wish to make a significant impact in the business world. You’ll learn
about the recent themes and trends transforming the business landscape such as
globalisation, technological change, and environmental sustainability.
Through case studies, business simulations, and company projects you’ll have the opportunity
to apply what you are learning in the classroom. With a wide range of electives, the BComm
gives you the flexibility to develop your own personal niche of expertise.
You’ll learn to become an independent and critical thinker and a cogent and compelling
communicator; able to work seamlessly in groups; to develop the technical and mathematical
skills to analyse and make sense of business data and intelligence.

4. Curriculum – 1st Year
• Accounting: This module provides an introduction to financial accounting practices, usage and
regulation. In particular, it introduces students to the preparation and interpretation of company
financial statements.
• Economics: This module provides an introduction to macroeconomic principles.
• Organisational Behaviour: This module is about life inside organisations, with a focus on
people, work, groups and wellbeing.
• Management Theory: This module presents a historical perspective on the key ideas,
debates, and practices that have shaped contemporary approaches to management.
• Maths & Statistics: This mathematics module has been specifically designed with the
mathematical needs of the business undergraduate in mind.
• Information & Communications Technology: This course is designed to introduce students
to contemporary information systems and demonstrate how these systems are used throughout
global organisations.
• Real-life Business Simulations: This module provides students with a practical introduction
to essential business and strategy competences associated with managing a new venture.

5. Curriculum – 2nd Year
• Financial & Managerial Accounting: There will be a particular and strong emphasis on
double entry bookkeeping throughout the course.
• Marketing: This module combines a detailed understanding of market needs and dynamics
with appropriate product/service offerings and effective communication strategy.
• Human Resources & Industrial Relations: It begins by examining the development of the
organisation of work, key trends and altering patterns in the world of work before moving on to
consider who works, what workers do, and what it’s like to work.
• Management: The purpose of management accounting is to assist management in achieving
organizational objectives by providing the relevant financial and non-financial information.
• Finance: This subject is designed to provide a broad introduction to finance.
• Business Analytics: Business Analytics uses quantitative approaches to decision-making in
business applications.

6. Curriculum – 3rd Year
• Business Strategy: The primary focus of the module is on identifying and analysing the
sources of advantage available to the firm, and on developing potential strategies around these
elements.
• Information Management: This course has a specific focus on information management from
the perspective of people and organizations.
• Personal Development Planning: It includes: reflective practice, continuous personal and
professional development, and career planning are life skills that improve personal experience
and are valued by organisations.
• Contemporary Issues in Management & Organisational Behaviour: This module is
designed to equip advanced commerce students with the skills needed to critically evaluate
management and OB news and research.
• New Venture Creation & Development: The purpose of this course is to explore the
development processes and resource assembly junctures that entrepreneurs face as they build
their venture.

7. INTERNSHIPS
Each year top performing students from the Bachelor of Commerce and BSc Economics and
Finance degree programmes are accepted onto our Internship Programme - a credited nine to
twelve month paid internship in one of a range of Irish and multinational companies.
The Internship Programme provides you with an opportunity to put theory and skills learned in
the classroom into practice during your degree. Skills obtained from practical work experience
are highly regarded by employers so this programme is of great benefit for future career
prospects.

8. STUDENT EXCHANGE
BComm students that achieve an overall stage G.P.A of 3.00, or above, in their first year of
study and who have completed 60 credits will be eligible to apply to study abroad for
Semester Two of the second year of their study.

9. YOUR CAREER YOUR FUTURE
The BComm at UCD will provide you with the tools and techniques to succeed in a dynamic
business environment.
Alongside a progressive business education, employers value the transferrable skills that
graduates from the BComm have acquired. Communication, negotiation, teamwork and time
management skills are just some of the competencies gained from our course. We will
challenge you with group work, case studies and business simulations so that when you
graduate you will be adequately prepared and highly motivated to join the exciting world of
business.

10. GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES
Many students decide that they would like to add focus to a specific area of interest or go onto
further study. The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business is Ireland’s leading
Postgraduate Business School and is a destination for a high number of our graduates.