legal, finance and accounting

Legal Services

• the business environment
• careers within the legal profession
• regulation
• professionalism and ethics
• security and risk
• equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
• third party professional services
• the fundamentals of law
• the fundamentals of financial accounting
• an awareness of digital and emerging technology, digital transformation and digital tools
• data driven innovation, analytics and design thinking
• research skills
• project and change management approaches in legal contexts

Finance

• the business environment – a general understanding of business models, tax laws, fundamental business principles and drivers for change
• fundamentals of financial accounting – an understanding of elementary financial principles, concepts and practices and how this content links to relevant accounting, bookkeeping, and business mathematics requirements
• professionalism and ethics – an understanding of professional conduct and responsibilities in the workplace and ethical dilemmas for the individual, organisation and professional
• data driven innovation and analytics and design thinking – an awareness of key requirements of a data governance framework and understand the main contemporary visualisation tools and when they are best used to support decision making

Accounting

• fundamentals of financial accounting – an understanding of elementary financial principles, concepts and practices and how this content links to relevant accounting, bookkeeping, and business mathematics requirements
• professionalism and ethics – an understanding of professional conduct and responsibilities in the workplace and ethical dilemmas for the individual, organisation and professional
• data driven innovation and analytics and design thinking – an awareness of key requirements of a data governance framework and understand the main contemporary visualisation tools and when they are best used to support decision making