The F4 Corporate and Business Law paper assesses your knowledge and understanding of the corporate and business law framework. It’s an essential element of the ACCA Fundamentals Level, and is one of six ACCA Fundamental Skills training programmes delivered by the University of Bolton to support your achievement of the external ACCA qualification.

Key information

Award:

Cert(CPD)

Mode of Study:

Part-time

Duration:

15 weeks

Location:

The University of Bolton

Start date:

26/08/2021

Professional recognition

You must have successfully completed papers F1-F3 of the ACCA programme, or have a qualification that gains you exemptions from papers F1-F3; such as a Level 4 Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification or a relevant Honours Degree in Business.
You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
If English isn't your first language you'll also need IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band (or equivalent).

Want some reassurance or advice? Speak to one of our advisors. Email us at admissions@bolton.ac.uk or call us on +44 (0)1204 903 394.

Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.

This paper is an essential element of the ACCA Fundamentals Level, and is one of six ACCA Fundamental Skills training programmes delivered by the University of Bolton to support your achievement of the external ACCA qualification.

Course fees

Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £500 for the academic year 2020/21.

Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £500 for the academic year 2020/21.

The fees for a student’s course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.

The university is currently awaiting government guidelines as to EU fee charges for students commencing study in 2021/2022.

Bursaries

Click here for more information about the scholarships and bursaries available to University of Bolton undergraduate students.

For details of how to apply for this course, please choose your status from the options below:

You may apply directly to the University using the University's online application form. Please select your chosen start date from the list below:

You should have to hand:

Details of the educational establishments you attended and dates
Your certificates for the qualifications you are using to gain entry to the course – you will need to enter the completion date and upload copies
Details of any employment history including name, address, dates and role
Personal statement – this can be either input into the relevant field or uploaded separately
Details including e-mail addresses of two referees, at least one of which should be someone who can provide an academic reference

Please make sure any documents you wish to upload in support of your application are in pdf or jpeg format. Personal statements may be word documents.

Please ensure your data is correct at each stage of the application before you proceed to the next page. If you use the back button at any time during the application, you should check the validity of the data you have already input.

If you experience difficulties during the application process, contact the Admissions Team on 01204 903394 or admissions@bolton.ac.uk

Apply online: University of Bolton ACCA Fundamentals Programme Paper F4 Level HE5 - 26 August 2021

International applications are not possible for this course

As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.

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University of Bolton Group Partners

Bolton College
University Technical College
University of Bolton

The University welcomes applications from our group partners and progressing students so we try to make our application process as simple and as fast as possible. By selecting the link for your chosen course from the list shown below you will be taken directly to our online application form. Please read the user guidance before completing this and ensure you upload all supporting documents such as certificates and your personal statement when you apply.

Please ensure when you are asked to add a contact email address you add your college/university email account address as well as your personal address. If you do not add your college address as your contact address we will be unable to identify you as a partner and you will be referred to apply via UCAS, which incurs a cost.

Apply online: University of Bolton ACCA Fundamentals Programme Paper F4 Level HE5 - 26 August 2021

We look forward to receiving your application and you continuing your academic journey with us!

You’ll be expected to attend a three-hour learning session (6pm to 9pm) once a week for 15 weeks.

The first hour of each session will be a formal lecture introducing a key topic on the syllabus. The following two hours will be conducted in a seminar format, looking at past exam questions on the subject area covered in that week’s formal lecture.

There is no written coursework for this qualification. Your grade will be based entirely on the results of a professional written examination set by ACCA.

Modules

Corporate and Business Law

Assessment methods

Level	Assesment method
Level one	Written exams 100%

Learning activities

Level	Learning activity
Level one	Guided independent study 22%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 78%

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.