Business Finance with Accounting (Final Year Entry)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Business Accountability and Responsibility

  The module develops your critical understanding of contemporary issues in accounting and finance in relation to developing business. It equips you with knowledge on a range of accounting and finance topics which are pertinent across organisational forms, organisational life cycles and different cultures.
   

• 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.

• Critical and Reflective Academic Practice

  This module is designed to develop your 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 your undergraduate study, including 

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

  You also have the opportunity to develop your digital literacies and group working 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.

• Sustainable Investing