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NCI Accounting Lecturer, Desmond Gibney pictured with finance expert, Susan Hayes Culleton along with BA (Honours) in Business students, Keith Pigott and Thomas Mahon.

In Semester 1, the final year accounting and finance class visited the Google offices. The honours degree students were there to meet with Google’s finance team, including the Director of Finance, Niall O’Sullivan. The class got to learn about the variety of products Google offers its consumers, and discuss Google’s recently published financial statements. The whole trip was a success, from the insight into real life products and accounts that demonstrated the application of everything the students have been learning, to the tour of the offices themselves, allowing the class to experience a real working environment.

December 2017 saw the final year accounting and finance class take a trip to Google.

Congratulations to the final year students who were awarded prizes for their work on Strategic Management, including a strategic analysis on the Irish company Makers and Brothers as a live business case. Many thanks too to the two founders, Jonathan and Mark, who came in and watched all 34 presentations and read through the case studies – they were really impressed with the students’ work and enthusiasm, and kindly presented prizes to the winning teams on Wednesday 22nd February.

With more than 60 years’ experience of changing lives through education, at National College of Ireland we’ve spoken to thousands of people about their motivations for postgraduate study. The NCI MSc in Marketing is one of our most enduringly popular courses and has been redesigned this year so that the digital marketing environment is firmly embedded throughout. Having interviewed so many applicants for the programme, we’ve compiled this guide to three of the best – and worst – reasons to do a masters in marketing.

Interested in studying Accounting and Finance but wondering what the career prospects are like? Meet NCI final year student Laura Kelly, who recently secured herself a graduate role with PWC. Laura, who is due to graduate later this year with a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance particularly enjoyed the community aspect of NCI. Speaking about her time at National College of Ireland Laura told us how the careers team at NCI played a significant role in her efforts to secure a graduate role after college. "They're just amazing, Aoife and Caroline are so helpful. They will help you with C.V's, interviews and your LinkedIn". Although we here at here at NCI will be sad to see Laura go, We're delighted to see yet another graduate secure employment soon after graduation. Check out our video below to see what else Laura had to say about her time at NCI.

With a history of teaching HR courses that stretches back more than 60 years’, it’s no surprise that our human resource management courses and lecturers are always kept busy at NCI’s summer open evenings.

In a competitive jobs market, it’s important to give yourself that extra edge over other applicants. And one of the best ways to achieve this is so straightforward: do a masters.

Business courses – and related subjects like finance, accounting and management - are highly appealing, with graduates in worldwide demand.