Accounting is one of the two business subjects available at Senior Cycle at St Kilian’s. It is taught abinitio, without any prior knowledge. Accounting is generally regarded as a practical subject and is best suited to students who enjoy learning by doing. It requires an aptitude for numbers, but higher level maths is not a prerequisite. Those students taking Accounting have a comparative advantage if they choose to follow a business course at third level.
As a subject, Accounting promotes the personal development of the individual:
- It develops problems solving and computational skills and an awareness and recognition of the consequences of error.
- It develops skills in the use of figures in business communications, in analysis and in decision making.
- It provides a subject choice for those students who have an aptitude for numerical skills.
- It cultivates mental discipline, develops the powers of concentration and fosters critical thinking, logical organisation and orderly presentation.
- It facilitates the acquisition of a language which is universally used in communications within the business world and within society at large.
- It links the accounting process with Information Technology.
- It fosters the concept of accountability.
- It develops a positive attitude towards
- Ethical behaviour
- Profit motive
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation and technological development
Consequently accounting is of personal use and benefit to students whether they enter the workforce immediately or proceed to third-level education and should they become involved in voluntary organisations. Overall the Accounting syllabus builds in the student good work habits, efficiency, responsibility, a sense of achievement in work well done and an increase in self-confidence.
