Business Finance (Final Year Entry)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• The international professional: Building Your Career Path

  This module aims to develop your knowledge of the theory and practice of career and management. Contemporary organisations increasingly expect employees to self-manage their careers, change roles within the organisation and develop the careers of those they line manage. You are required to demonstrate critical insight into your own knowledge, skills and experience and consider how this might allow you to manage your post-graduation career.

• Applied Research for Social Impact

  The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to undertake an independent research project that addresses real-world challenges and contributes to positive social change. This capstone module integrates research skills developed throughout the programme, enabling you to critically investigate contemporary issues with significant social, environmental, or organisational implications.

• Academic Skills and Personal Development

  This module is designed to develop academic literacies for use on other modules across the programme. Through the design of the final coursework assessments, you will acquire the essential independent learning skills to support this stage of your Undergraduate study, including research skills, critical thinking, reflection, academic writing, presentation skills, and academic conventions. It will also give you the opportunity to develop your digital literacies and group working skills.
   

• Business Ethics

  In a world facing complex, fast paced and unprecedented social and environmental challenges, business students as active citizens need to be equipped with ways of thinking that enable them to make morally grounded decisions. Decisions that are socially and environmentally justified. As such this module is applicable to students as members of business organisations and as members of society.
   

• Essentials of Accounting & Finance

  The module aims to develop a basic understanding and critical assessment of key financial information from the users’ perspective. This will include both financial and management accounting information covering three areas:
  ● Basics: Terminology, purposes, users, stakeholders, rules and regulations;
  ● Financial accounting: key financial statements, published accounts and analysis & interpretation through ratios;
  ● Management accounting: costing, budgeting & forecasting, budget management, pricing and investment appraisal.
   

• Strategic Management

  This module aims to explore prevailing business themes and their impact on strategy at a corporate level. You will engage with contemporary business cases and evidence to explore the influences of key drivers at national and international levels on the strategies, behaviours and management of organisations.

• Contemporary Issues in Finance

  This module provides an opportunity for you to investigate the forces shaping the contemporary financial system. The emphasis will be on both the underlying causes of recent financial developments and the more general implications of these for our understanding of finance and on the possibilities open to regulatory authorities, companies, investors and other interested groups to respond to these developments.