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Accounting & Finance Academic Programmatic Assessment
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Accounting & FinanceAcademic Programmatic Assessment
The Challenge
Assessment of learning outcomes is a key requirement for both institutional accreditation and programmatic certification.
The challenge is finding the right assessment tool that is flexible, comprehensive, and affordable with an external comparison that corresponds to the program.
Accounting & Finance
A customizable, program-level assessment solution with in-depth reporting and data analysis to help satisfy assurance of learning requirements.
Solution Objectives
◆ Provide a meaningful, cost-effective, and practical solution to the evaluation of programmatic learning outcomes.
◆ Conduct comparisons of the program’s results to one or more external aggregate pools.
◆ Conduct internal analysis of the program.
◆ Directly measure retained student knowledge.
◆ Address accreditation requirements.
Accounting & Finance Assessment
◆ Identifying where gaps in performance exist due to conceptual errors or wrong conclusions
◆ Measuring students’ proficiency in concepts and practices of leadership
◆ Demonstrating students’ technical knowledge in industry-specific competencies
Accounting & Finance Assessment Solution
A normed, summative assessment solution for Accounting and Finance (ACFN) academic programs used for internal and external programmatic evaluation.
The customizable solution is easily managed and can be effectively integrated into any ACFN program to evaluate retained student knowledge associated with the program’s learning outcomes.
The assessment solution is specifically designed to address programmatic accreditation requirements related to learning outcomes assessment, quality assurance, and external academic benchmarking.
The ACFN assessment solution addresses programmatic and institutional accreditation requirements.
Learning Outcomes | Quality Assurance | Direct Measurement | Programmatic Evaluation
Key Features
◆ Select from 13 core Accounting & Financing topics and 48 supplemental topics.
◆ Integrate directly into the learning management system (LMS) for seamless delivery to the students and automated gradebook posting.
◆ Choose from two test banks: undergraduate and graduate
◆ Client Admin with 24/7 unlimited access to individual student results and analysis reports.
◆ Benchmarking of scores with other institutions based on institutional demographics.
◆ Randomized exam question delivery that does not require an exam proctor.
13 Accounting and Finance Topics
1. Accounting2. Business Communications3. Business Ethics in Accounting4. Business Finance5. Business Policies, Integration and
Strategic Management6. Economics7. Global Dimensions of
Business Accounting
8. Information Systems9. Leadership in Accounting10. Legal Environment of Business11. Management12. Marketing13. Quantitative Techniques, Statistics,
and Research Analysis
1. Accounting and the Business Environment2. Activity-Based Costing and Other Cost Management Tools3. Auditing4. Capital Budgeting Cash Flows5. Capital Budgeting Techniques6. Capital Investment Decisions and the Time Value of Money7. Cash Flow and Financial Planning8. Completing the Accounting Cycle9. Corporations: Effects on Retained Earnings and the Income Statement10.Corporations: Paid-in Capital and the Balance Sheet11.Cost Accounting12.Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis13.Current Liabilities and Payroll14.Current Liabilities Management15.Financial Market Environment16.Financial Statement Analysis
17.Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis18.Flexible Budgets and Standard Costs19.Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting20.Hybrid and Derivative Securities21.Interest Rates and Bond Valuation22.Internal Control and Cash23.International Managerial Finance24.Job Order and Process Costing25.Leverage and Capital Structure26.Long-Term Liabilities, Bonds Payable, and Classification of Liabilities on the BalanceSheet27.Merchandising Inventory28.Merchandising Operations29.Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and BusinessFailure30.Overview of Management Accounting31.Payout Policy32.Performance Evaluation and the BalancedScorecard
33.Plant Assets and Intangibles34.Receivables35.Recording Business Transactions36.Risk and Refinements in Capital Budgeting37.Risk and Return38.Roles of Managerial Finance39.Short-Term Business Decisions40.Stock Valuation41.Taxation: Corporations42.Taxation: Individuals43.The Adjusting Process44.The Cost of Capital45.The Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting46.The Statement of Cash Flows47.Time Value of Money48.Working Capital and Current Assets Management
Validity and Reliability
Peregrine Global Services places a high priority on ensuring the validity and reliability of the assessment services. These practices begin at the design stage and continue through beta-testing, and with ongoing regularly scheduled quality reviews. For additional information regarding the reliability process, please refer to the following peer-reviewed article:
Oedekoven, O. O., Napolitano, M., Lemmon, J., & Zaiontz, C. (2019). Determining test bank reliability. Transnational Journal of
Business, 4(Summer), 63-74.
Solution Pricing
Pricing is based on annual solution projections for all services used.
Pricing includes complete access to individual results, reports, and analytics.
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