Boot Camp is an online programme of learning for students looking to develop their financial skills. It was developed and launched by Chartered Accountants Ireland to support senior cycle students in 2019. The programme helps students build a strong foundation in the fundamentals of accounting and finance, while also developing their understanding of how to use financial information to make better business decisions. Students who participate in the programme will develop important, transferable financial and business leadership skills.
For Transition Year students, it is an ideal introduction, not just to accounting, but to the business and financial decision-making process. Favouring a strong practical focus, students are exposed through “real life” business simulations, to concepts like strategy, risk, sensitivity analysis and the importance of critical thinking to good decision-making. Students will also gain real life insights from senior business leaders, accountants and finance professionals.
The programme is also highly effective online revision tool for 5th and 6th year Accounting students as it provides an excellent foundation in the basics of double entry and accounts preparation.
For Transition Year students, it is an ideal introduction, not just to accounting, but to the business and financial decision-making process. Favouring a strong practical focus, students are exposed through “real life” business simulations, to concepts like strategy, risk, sensitivity analysis and the importance of critical thinking to good decision-making. Students will also gain real life insights from senior business leaders, accountants and finance professionals.
The programme is also highly effective online revision tool for 5th and 6th year Accounting students as it provides an excellent foundation in the basics of double entry and accounts preparation.
The Boot Camp Foundation Course is a completely self-paced online course. If your teacher is running Boot Camp in class, she/he will set a timeline for you and will provide further guidance on how to complete Boot Camp. For TY students, teachers may opt to run the programme over a period of eight to 10 weeks (e.g. one class per week). It is just as feasible, however, to run the programme in a more condensed timeline, for example as an intensive three to five day course.
You should do Boot Camp if one or more of the following apply to you:
You are interested in business and finance and, in particular, how important business decisions are made
You aspire one day to be a business leader, senior manager, accountant or entrepreneur
You want to learn valuable transferable business skills like critical thinking, financial analysis and strategy
You enjoy working in teams, getting to grips with problems and solving them
You intend taking Accounting or Business as a subject for Leaving Certificate.
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Boot Camp is an online resource.