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Business & Finance

PLC Post Leaving Cert
5M2102

On our Business and Finance course you will develop practical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills required to ensure academic and professional success in accounting and finance in a constantly changing world.

Award Name Level 5 Certificate (Level 5 NFQ)
NFQ Classification Major
Awarding Body QQI
NFQ Level Level 5 NFQ
Award Name NFQ Classification Awarding Body NFQ Level
Level 5 Certificate (Level 5 NFQ) Major QQI Level 5 NFQ
Alternate Provider:
Location:
Inchicore
Attendance Options:
Full time, Daytime
Apply to:
Course provider

Duration

1 year full-time.

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements:
Leaving Certificate: O6/H7 in 5 subjects or Leaving Certificate Applied or QQI Level 4 major award. Equivalent qualifications will be accepted. Mature applicants who have relevant industry experience and may not meet the above requirements are welcome to apply.

Careers / Further progression

Progression and Career Prospects
5M2102 Business Studies major award leads to a wide range of courses in the Higher Education Links Scheme which include:
• Accounting and Finance in DCU, Maynooth University, NCI and TUD Blanchardstown
• Arts – Finance in Maynooth University
• Business and Finance in TUD
• Business – Applied Entrepreneurship in IADT

QQI FET Links to CAO Courses

Course Web Page

Further information

Start Date: September 2024.

All our courses have had the charges reduced to a €50 registration charge which you will need to pay to accept your offer. This charge covers your full course costs for the year.

Apply Online
You apply online (see "Application Weblink"). You can apply at any time.

When you complete your application, you will receive an acknowledgement email with login details, username and password, for your new account on our college applications system, MIT. You will log into the college applications system regularly to manage your application to ICFE. If you have any problems logging in please contact our Admissions office at info@inchicore.cdetb.ie

Can’t decide which course?
Our system only allows you to apply once, but you can change your mind any time. If you are interested in applying for more than one course, please contact our admissions office at the email address above and they will advise you on what to do.

About This Course
Do you see yourself working in the world of accounting, IT, finance, administration, junior management, customer service, setting up your own business, supply chain management or the many other areas of business in the public and private sectors?

On our Business and Finance course you will develop practical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills required to ensure academic and professional success in accounting and finance in a constantly changing world.

Qualifications awarded on this course will ensure advancement in many career areas, many of which are now accom-modating remote working in the changed international economic landscape.

Top finance firms now have a base in Ireland as ‘the damage to the global hub of the city of London means more of them will be consolidating their operations in an EU country, with Ireland set to benefit here’ (Irish Times January 2021).

Course Coordinator: Margaret Doogan

Subjects
• Applied Economics
• Accounting Manual & Computerised
• Business Administration Skills
• Communications
• Financial Services
• Payroll Manual and Computerised
• Spreadsheet Methods
• Legal Practice and Procedures
• Work Experience
• Statistics (Option)

Course content may be revised for educational or organisational reasons.

5M2102 - Business Studies

Certification: QQI Business Studies 5M2102

Inchicore College of Further Education,
Emmet Road,
Dublin 8,
Ireland
t: 01 453 5358
e: info@inchicore.cdetb.ie

Alternate Provider:
Location:
Inchicore
Attendance Options:
Full time, Daytime
Apply to:
Course provider