Business Finance (Final Year Entry)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Business Ethics

  This module is designed to address our changing world that is facing social and environmental challenges. You’ll develop the capacity to make ethically defensible decisions as members of business organisations and of society in general. You’ll analyse and evaluate the ethical propositions of others. And you’ll evaluate the ethics of different systemic models of production, distribution and exchange.Upon completing this module you will be able to evaluate and apply ethical reasoning to local and global business dilemmas and economic systems, and you’ll be able to evaluate the significance of a range of western and non-western ethical perspectives. 

• Contemporary Issues in Finance

  This module provides an opportunity for students to investigate the forces shaping the contemporary financial system. A variety of issues will be examined, taking the financial turmoil of 2007-2008 as a starting point. 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.

• Critical Enquiry Research Project

  Engage with an independent research project. This module will draw together your research skills developed earlier in the programme to support you to develop an extended study on a topic of your choosing within the business and management field. The project includes designing and implementing an investigation which takes account of multiple and possibly conflicting stakeholder objectives; applies suitable research approaches in an ethical manner; and communicates, using suitable technologies, with the intention of making recommendations for practice.

• Essential Skills for Academic Success

  In this module you will start to develop your academic literacies to use on other modules across your final year programme including:

  • research skills
  • critical thinking
  • reflection
  • academic writing
  • and presentation skills.

• Finance and Accounting for Business

  You will start to develop a thorough basic understanding and critical assessment of corporate financial information from a users’ perspective. This will include both financial and management accounting information. You will look at the three following areas and progress your understanding and critical assessment skills to a high level:

  • Basics: Terminology, purposes, users, rules and regulations and business entities
  • Financial accounting: key financial statements, published accounts and analysis and interpretation through ratios
  • Management accounting: costing, budgeting and forecasting, budget management and pricing.

• Managing Careers

  Build your knowledge of the theory and practice of career management. You will  demonstrate critical insight into your own knowledge, skills and experience and consider how this might allow you to manage your post-graduation career. You will also apply these ideas as you develop and run a learning activity for others. 

• Strategic Management

  Explore prevailing business themes and their impact on strategy at a corporate level. You will tackle 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.