Course Coordination
João Jorge Oliveira Rodrigues
Description
This Bachelor’s degree course provides advanced training in the field of Accounting and aims to meet the demands of new technological and organisational settings and challenges. Degree holders in this field enjoy high employability rates, since their work is fundamental in the business world. The demands facing accounting professionals are linked to the ability to make useful information available for decision-making and to participate in the lives of organisations.
The study plan is designed to give an overall understanding of other business science fields that are very important in the running of a business and are related to accounting functions. So, as well as sound training in accounting, auditing and taxation, professionals in this area have knowledge about management, economics, law and other connected fields.
The study plan is recognised by the Portuguese Chartered Accountants Association (Ordem dos Contabilistas Certificados – OCC) and includes the units Business Simulation I and II, which allow students to engage with a model representing the business environment. These units make it possible to achieve the training objectives and to gain experience in carrying out tasks in the fields of accounting, management, taxation and other company duties.
The teaching staff on this degree are highly qualified, have extensive academic and work experience in the field and are part of research
centres such as UNICES, CITE-INESC, CICS.NOVA, NECE-UBI.