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 and 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 and interpretation through ratios;
  • Management accounting: costing, budgeting and forecasting, budget management, pricing and investment Appraisal

  You will develop the ability to create, interpret and effectively communicate financial information.

• Business Strategy and Futures in Disrupted Environments

  You'll explore the concept of business strategy and its application in disrupted business environments. It focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities presented by disruptive forces and how organisations can develop robust strategies to navigate uncertain futures. You'll examine various aspects of business strategy, including:

  • innovation
  • digital transformation
  • scenario planning
  • and sustainability. 

  You'll analyse case studies, engage in strategic thinking exercises, and develop your essential practical skills to formulate and be able to implement strategies in disrupted business environments.

• 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.
   

Optional modules

• Advancing your Career Path (January start only)

  You'll be introduced to industry mentors, through structured engagement, including industry-led workshops, and networking events. You'll receive guidance on career development, professional skills, and industry insights, fostering meaningful connections and practical learning experiences.

  You'll develop the knowledge of the theory and practice of career and management. Organisations increasingly expect employees to self-manage their careers, change roles within the organisation and develop the careers of those they line manage. 

  Exploring self- assessment techniques for understanding career preferences you'll assess your own skills and abilities, motivations and interests against those required for effective graduate employment in your chosen sector. You'll enhance your insight into the competencies required in graduate employment and you'll be required to recognise and apply the skills of competency assessment and feedback to peers within a learning and development activity.