ENGLISH FOR ACCOUNTING 2 (ENGL 222)

AIM

This course aims to improve students’ English for accounting and business. Helping them become more confident, fluent and accurate. It also aims to enhance students’ English skills in negotiating, collaborating, problem solving, explaining operations, and communicating with business clients. The course also raises students’ awareness of cross-cultural issues to prepare students to communicate effectively in global situations.

The English for Accounting 2 also supports CamEd’s students in their other studies. Starting from 2nd year onwards, all classes are conducted in English with internationally prepared examinations. This course strengthens students’ ability in reading, writing, listening and speaking in English, providing them the confidence to participate in class group activities, progress with lessons and prepare them for their examinations.

  • COURSE DESCRIPTION
  • ROLE IN CURRICULUM
  • LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • STUDY PLAN
  • TEACHING METHODS
  • ASSESSMENT AND GRADING
  • TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCES

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Continuing from English for Accounting 1, this course further enhances students’ ability in using English for professional business purposes including verbal and written communication in English in the form of properly formatted letters, emails, reports and memos that are commonly used in day-to-day work. It also provides students with international business terminology, preparing them to communicate in an internationally working environment where they interact with investors for potential business opportunities. This course also supports students with numerous opportunities for discussions and covers a wide range of subject area, including:

  • Personal development and career in accounting and finance
  • Explaining business fundamentals, processes and operations
  • Sales, marketing and negotiating
  • Corporate image and investment
  • Managing conflict and risk management
  • Auditors-client communication and meeting

Credits: 2.5
Lecture Hours: 37.5

Self-Study Hours: 90

  • Reading: 22.5 (137 pages, read and answer questions)
    Presentation: 15.5 (Group and individual presentations)
    Homework: 10 (Topic units’ homework and reviews)
    Field work: 11.5 ( Gathering data for short reports)
    Big Assignments: 15.5 (Internet research, writing, and summarizing)
    75

Total Study Hours: 112.5

ROLE IN CURRICULUM

 

Prerequisites

Students must have completed English for Accounting 1.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.  Knowledge

Level of Learning PLO CLO Learning Outcome
Apply PK1, PK4 CK1 Demonstrate English language and vocabulary specific to business.
Apply PK1, PK2, PK4 CK2 Use English Language for the purposes of accounting, auditing and finance.

2.  Cognitive Skills

Level of Learning PLO CLO Learning Outcome
Create PC1, PC3 CC1 Compose informal and formal business format reports, articles, emails, letters and memos.
Create PC1, PC5, PC6 CC2 Create professional business correspondence in English.
Analyze PC2 CC3 Distinguish structures and roles in corporate organizations.
Apply PC1, PC7 CC4 Operate international trade concepts (such as ordering and supplying goods and services, answering and making enquiries, making offers, placing and acknowledging orders).

3.  Communication, Information Technology, and Numerical Skills

Level of Learning PLO CLO Learning Outcome
Apply PCIT3, PCIT4, CCIT1 Integrate Microsoft Word and PowerPoint in business presentations and correspondences
Analyze PCIT2, PCIT3, PCIT4 CCIT2 Organize group discussions, pair work and teamwork with confidence (using online tools).

4.   Interpersonal Skills and Responsibilities

Level of Learning PLO CLO Learning Outcome
Create PIP1, PIP2, PIP3 CCI1 Manage team projects and assignments productively.

STUDY PLAN

The course targets the 25 lessons in the study plan below. Each lesson is 1.5 class hours each; there are a total of 37.5 class hours. The study plan below describes the learning outcome for each lesson, described in terms of what the student should be able to do at the end of the lesson. Readings should be done by students as preparation before the start of each class. Implementation of this study plan may vary somewhat depending on the progress and needs of students.

No Lesson Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activities,
Assessment
 1

Business Fundamentals

  1. Review the main industry groups, company types and structure, business and investment cycles. Review financial statements and recruitment processes.
  2. Apply useful vocabulary for describing theses business fundamentals. (CK1, CK2)

Course introduction
Lecture
Discussions: introductions

Reading: Course background.
Lead-in Activities
2

Personal Development

  1. Understand top tips for getting on in the workplace.
  2. Build skills and qualities that will lead to behavioral competencies and setting goals.
  3. Apply vocabulary related to behavioral competencies and setting goals. (CCI1)

 

Reading activity: internet research
Listening and discussion

Reading: Top tips for getting on in the workplace
Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Personal development
3

Grammar and writing: Tense, aspect and voice

  1. Review of aspect. Study many different verb forms with examples and use the passive voice.
  2. Write a professional biography (CK1, CCIT1)

 

Review activities
Discussion and internet research

Listening activity:
Exercises and writing
Speaking.
Chapter 1: Personal development
4

Management Skills: Self awareness and Communication.

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of self-awareness.
  2. Write down words that describes you or how you are perceived at the workplace and:
  3. Present oneself positively, using the appropriate adjectives. (CK2, CC2)

 

Discussion
Listening: the Johari window
Game: truth game
Internet research
Chapter 1: Personal development
(Quiz 1)
5

Corporate image

  1. Describe corporate image.
  2. Understand strategies for building corporate image. Use appropriate vocabulary in relation to corporate social responsibility. (CC2)

 

Reading activity: The Big McMakeover.
Group discussion and listening
activity:
Presentation:
Chapter 2: Corporate image
6

Grammar and writing: The future, tentative and speculative language

  1. Review of future forms.
  2. Demonstrate the use of tentative language in speaking and writing.
  3. Compose newsletter articles.(CK2, CC1 & 2)

 

Lecture
Discussion
Speaking:
Analysis
Writing; newsletter articles

Chapter 2: Corporate image
7

Management skills: Time management

  1. Develop skills for prioritizing and delegating tasks (CC1)

 

Discussion
Listening
Analysis
Case study: Pixkel Inc
Chapter 2 : Corporate image (Quiz 2)
8

Supply chain

  1. Understand the concept of outsourcing.
  2. Apply vocabulary related to logistics: supply chain, strategic decision stages and reverse logistics (CC1, CK1)

 

Lecture
Discussion
Reading: The Indian Machine
Listening
Speaking
Chapter 3: Supply chain
9

Grammar: Noun phrases

  1. Build noun phrases: using relative clauses with the correct relative pronoun or adverb (that, which, who, whom, when where, why and how).
  2. Define relative clauses in describing products and systems.
  3. Write business emails: greetings and salutations, expressions with as, levels of formality (CC1)

Lecture
Practice activities
Speaking:
Listening
Writing
Group work/pair work

Chapter 3: Supply chain
10

Management skills: Managing change

  1. Utilize JM Fisher’s Process of Transition to analyze your own experience of change. (CK2, CCIT1, CCIT2)

Lecture
Discussion
Listening activity
Group work/pair work
Internet research activity
Case study: WEF Audio:
Chapter 3: Supply chain (QUIZ 3)
11

Managing conflict

  1. Build an effective management style. Develop skills for managing conflict.
  2. Apply vocabulary related to office conflict and conflict management strategies (managing people and conflicts).
  3. Use collocations relating to conflict management.

(CK2, CC3)

Discussion
Reading: Managers from hell
Listening activity:
Internet research
Group work: role-play
Chapter 4: Managing conflict
12

Grammar: Conjunctions

  1. Use subordinators and coordinators. Give practices in using “linkers” in gapped sentences.
  2. Understand how to express meanings through subordinators.
  3. Write letters: tone, sounding diplomatic, forceful or aggressive. (CK2, CCI1, CCIT2)

Discussion
Reading
Listening activity
Speaking
Writing
Group work

Chapter 4: Managing conflict
13

Management skills: Assertiveness

  1. Develop strategies for improving one’s assertiveness in the workplace and provides opportunities to practice expressing one’s self assertively in English. (CC3, CCI1,CCIT2)

Lecture
Discussion
Writing
Reading
Case-study: Olvea Brasil
Chapter 4: Managing conflict (Quiz 4)
14

Marketing and sales

  1. Learn about strategic marketing and partnering and how this trend is changing the face of marketing.
  2. Understand strategic marketing planning.
  3. Apply the vocabulary in marketing, marketing collocations and brand strategy. (CC3; CCIT2)

Lecture
Group Discussion
Reading: A recipe for success (how to develop a strategic marketing plan)
Listening activity:
Chapter 5: Marketing and sales
15

Grammar: Prepositions

  1. Use the grammar of prepositions and its accuracy of use.
  2. Understand idiomatic prepositional phrases.
  3. Write business proposals, its structure, reason, purpose and concessive  clauses.

(CCI1, CCIT2)

Lecture
Listening activity:
Practice exercise
Writing
Internet research

Chapter 5: Marketing and sales
16

Management skills: Active listening

  1. Develop active listening techniques, skills for asking questions.
  2. Prepare discussions and role-play active listening. (CCI1)

Discussion
Lecture
Writing
Listening activity:
Group work: Role-play
Case-study: Presnya Taxi
Chapter 5: Selling more (Quiz 5)
17

Risk management

  1. Understand crises situation and crises management in the workplace.
  2. Apply a variety of key vocabulary related to risk management, digital risk and litigation.

(CC1, CC2, CC4)

Lecture
Reading activity: Damage control & Enterprise Risk Management
Discussion
Internet research
Listening:

Chapter 6: Risk management
18

Grammar: Perspective and stance

  1. Identify the use of grammar of expressing perspectives and stance.
  2. Write reports: structuring a corporate report, learning key expressions for corporate reports and making recommendations in a report.

(CC4, CCIT2)

Lecture
Practice language focus:
Listening:
Speaking
Discussion in pairs.

Chapter 6: Risk management
19

Management skills: Communicating in a crisis

  1. Develop crisis communication strategies.
  2. Make alliterations and analogies when speaking (CCIT1, CCIT2, CCI1)

Discussion
Reading
Listening.
Internet research
Case-study: Perigord Gourmet
Chapter 6: Risk management (QUIZ 6)
20

Investment banks

  1. Understand investment banking.
  2. Analyze types of investment.
  3. Use investment jargons or vocabulary related to the field of investment.

(CCIT2, CC2)

Lecture
Discussion
Reading: Investment banks heroes or zeroes?
Listening activity:
.
Chapter 7: Investment
21

Grammar: Inversion and emphasis

  1. Understand how stressing different words in the sentence inverted conditionals and emphatic structures to reformulating emphasis. 
  2. Analyze financial reports. 

Management skills: Decision-making

  1. Use grid analysis as a useful decision-making tool.(CC3, CC4, CCIT1, CCI1)

Internet research
Discussion
Reading
Listening.
Speaking
Writing
Case-study: Lesage Automobile
Chapter 7: Investment (Quiz 7)
22

Free trade

  1. Understand the topic of free trade.
  2. Understand the arguments for and against free trade through reading and discussion.
  3. Apply new methods for forming new words using acronyms and affixes. (CC2, CC4)

Lecture
Discussion
Listening activity:
Reading: The price of being a fortress
Chapter 8:Free trade
23

Grammar: Phrasal and prepositional verbs

  1. Identify most common phrasal verbs.

Management skills: Leading the team

  1. Understand team roles and team function. (CK1, CC1, CCIT2)

Lecture
Discussion
Reading activity:
Speaking
Listening
Chapter 8: Free trade
24

Writing: Style

  1. Write with appropriate style. Adverb and adjective collocations. (CC2, CC4))

Lecture
Discussion
Writing: Writing an email in appropriate style
Reading:
Case-study: The cartel
Chapter 8: Fair Trade (Quiz 8)
25 FINAL EXAM REVIEW

Lecture and review of chapters 1 to 8.
Group discussion on course and exam questions
Total Hours: 37.5 hours

TEACHING METHODS

Teaching methods may include:

  • Individual work, pair work, group work, whole class work
  • Homework
  • Big Assignments
  • Tests and examinations
  • Presentation
  • Discussion, reflection, and reaction 
  • Inquiry-based approaches (library and field work)
  • Didactic questioning 
  • Technology support (computer and Internet)

ASSESSMENT AND GRADING

Grades will be determined based on a grading score, calculated using the following assessments and score allocations:

Assessment Weight of each assessment Learning Outcome Assessed
CLO PLO
Attendance 10% All CK, CC, CIP, CCIT PK1, PK2, PK4, PC1, PC3, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4, PIP1, PIP2, PIP3
In-class tests 20% All CK, CC, CIP, CCIT PK1, PK2, PK4, PC1, PC3, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4, PIP1, PIP2, PIP3
Homework 5% All CK, CC, CIP, CCIT PK1, PK2, PK4, PC1, PC3, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4, PIP1, PIP2, PIP3
Assignments 15% All CK, CC, CIP, CCIT PK1, PK2, PK4, PC1, PC3, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4, PIP1, PIP2, PIP3
Midterm exam 20% CK1, CK2, CC1,CC2 PK1, PK2, PC1, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4
Final exam 30% CK1, CK2, CC2, CC3, CC4 PK1, PK2, PC1, PC5, PC6, PCIT3, PCIT4
Total grading score 100%  

During the course, there is one Research Assignment:

Assignment: Individual and Group
Output format: Writing and Presentation
Language: English
Assignment include: Writing reports, memos, and business conversation, fieldwork data collection and analysis, and role play and presentations.

 

TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCES

Textbook

  1. Macmillan Education 2013, The Business C1 Advanced, John Allison, Rachel Appleby and Edward de Chazal, First edition published 2013.
  2. Pearson Education Limited 2010,Accounting and Finance Market Leader, Sara Helm, First published in 2010

References

  1. Language Success Press 2010, Speak Business English like an American, Amy Gillett, First published in 2006
  2. Cambridge University Press, English for Business Studies, Ian Mackenzie, 3rd Edition
  3. Cambridge University Press, English for the Financial Sector, Ian Mackenzie
  4. Financial Times magazines

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