Business Finance (Final Year Entry)

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code: NN24

Start dates: September 2024 / September 2025

Full time: 1 year

Location: Headington

Department(s): Oxford Brookes Business School

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Overview

The Oxford Brookes Business School Final Year Entry programmes provide you with an opportunity to build upon your previous studies to develop your academic skills through experiential learning in an inclusive and diverse community. 

On the Business Finance Final Year Entry programme, you will be immersed in a range of employer focussed modules that include, Essentials of Accounting and Finance, Strategic Management, Business Ethics and Contemporary Issues in Finance.

You will have access to industry standard facilities, including our new Bloomberg Suite where you can make mock trades using live real-world data.

You will collaborate with students and academic staff from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds, formulating ideas with a truly global perspective. 

Oxford Brookes Business School offers excellent employability support through our Careers team, and you will have the opportunity to work on live client briefs, hear from industry experts in their fields and have ongoing careers support through the Oxford Brookes University Alumni Networks.

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Course details

Learning and teaching

On this course your learning experience will be exciting as well as challenging. You will have the opportunity to:

  • take part in case study analysis
  • solve issues for real businesses
  • work with diverse groups to present your analysis and recommendations.

We focus on helping you to develop the skills you will need to succeed in today’s fast-paced and competitive business world. You will also have opportunities to learn from business professionals. Whether it’s guest speakers or working on live cases from the business community.

Assessment

Your assessments will be diverse, and will support different learning styles - you’ll have a real opportunity to showcase your strengths. Your learning may be assessed by a combination of individual or group coursework, presentations, and examinations.

Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place face to face, and you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

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.

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

With the broad range of skills you’ll learn on this course, you’ll be a valuable addition to any business. We’ll help you build professional skills to adapt to working life, and our careers office is always there to support you in your search. Job opportunities include:

  • multinational businesses
  • charities
  • education
  • healthcare
  • government.

Many of our students go on to graduate training schemes in companies like IBM, Virgin Mobile, Intel, Yell Ltd, O2 and Dell.

Entry requirements

Further offer details

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

International full time
£16,300

Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

International full time
£17,100

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

Tuition fees

2024 / 25
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

International full time
£16,300

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

International full time
£17,100

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students. 

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Financial support and scholarships

For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.