Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons)

This module provides you with an introduction to the context and purpose of financial reporting and how to define qualitative characteristics of financial reporting. It helps you to understand how to maintain accounting records, prepare and present financial reports. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about different types of ownership of business organisations, and the sources of authority for financial reporting will be considered.

This module will introduce you to the basic concepts, principles and practices of management accounting. It covers cost classification and behaviour, and the various types of cost and costing systems used for products and services. You’ll explore the basic principles of planning and control in terms of budgeting and variance analysis and also learn the types of decision-making techniques such as cost-volume-profit analysis and pricing.

This module introduces you to the main characteristics of finance and financial management and aims to introduce the key concepts of finance by building comprehensive perceptions and equipping you with different skills related to finance. You’ll explore the foundations of finance to enable you to learn more advanced topics in finance and give you the opportunity to develop clear understandings of the key financial concepts.

This module introduces quantitative techniques that are widely used in the formulation and solution of business models. The module aims to help develop your skills in representing financial and business data and in problem solving and understand the basic concepts and applications of probability along with the role of sample statistics in statistical inference.

This module will help you gain an understanding and explain the concepts and principles associated with the English law as it applies to businesses and their environment.

This module will give you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in the application of operational management accounting techniques and tools to provide information and analysis for planning, decision making, and control. It will build on the knowledge you have already gained in Foundations of Management Accounting and seeks to enhance your understanding of how management accounting departments contribute to the financial and operational success of an organisation.

This module will examine the quantitative aspects of decision making that are of particular value to accountants. You’ll have the opportunity to identify appropriate modelling methods and tools for a variety of financial and business problems and evaluate the various models available to improve problem solving and decision making in financial and business situations.

This module will examine the quantitative aspects of decision making that are of particular value to accountants. You’ll have the opportunity to identify appropriate modelling methods and tools for a variety of financial and business problems and evaluate the various models available to improve problem solving and decision making in financial and business situations.

Globalisation means that nowadays all business to some degree are international. It is almost impossible to find a product or service that does not have an international aspect to its customer base and its supply chain. In this module, you'll investigate the business transactions taking place across national borders. You'll develop an understanding of all the external environment parts and the major issues that businesses are confronted with when operating in international markets. The module covers an introduction to international business principles, including environment, strategy, international trade, international marketing and people in multinational enterprises.

In this module, you'll explore the theory and practices that inform and enable business start-up and small enterprise development. You'll follow the entrepreneurial journey in four phases; creativity and conceptualising the business; understanding context; opportunity spotting and scoping; and business model development. You'll use case studies to explore entrepreneurial practices in a variety of contexts. You'll experiment with opportunity spotting and the formulation of a business model, which will help you understand the practice and theory of new venture creation, from ideation to creating a business enterprise.

In this module you’ll learn about the British economic history from the Post-World War and the structure and performance of the British economy, the role of the state in economic development and Britain’s changing position in the global economy. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn about economic and social problems faced by developing countries, especially between the UK and its former colonies and discuss possible policy recommendations.

In this module you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to integrate economic theory, mathematical methods, statistical techniques and data to study current economic issues in the business context. You’ll also learn how businesses operate and how managers make decisions and learn the different theoretical approaches to the analysis of public policy and business problems and what methods might be appropriately applied to the analysis of economics and business data.

You will examine advanced issues in management accounting, focusing on its role in providing information for decision-making, planning and control and performance management. The module builds on existing knowledge of Management Accounting and seeks to enhance your understanding of how to manage the performance of a business.

You will have an opportunity to expand your knowledge from previous studies of corporate reporting, with regard to conceptual understanding and more detailed application of knowledge of current reporting practices for individual companies and groups of companies.

This module focuses on the development and evaluation of transferable skills to help maximise your employability including career preparation group case study work integrating all the knowledge and skills you should have developed over the length of your course.

In this module you'll learn about strategy and innovation through an integrated approach. You'll start with an overview and analysis of business strategy and strategic options available for businesses. You then progress to the causes, mechanism and outcomes of business innovation and transformation from micro (individual and team), meso (organisational) and macro (national - global) lenses. While developing a strong theoretical overview, you'll develop a practical outlook through weekly case studies exploring real world business cases of strategy, innovation, and transformation.

This module introduces you to the subject of taxation, covering the underlying principles and technical computations required for the main taxes that affect the activities of individuals and businesses within the UK. The module also introduces the economic aspects of tax with a view to providing you with a broad understanding of fiscal policy in the UK.

This module looks at investment analysis and portfolio management using an innovative experiential learning environment – “The Portfolio Game.” You’ll have the opportunity to learn about financial markets, recognise the measure and value of the risk and return and be aware of the relationships between them and be aware of the opportunities and dangers offered by international diversification, alongside learning about the available hedging techniques of managing a successful investment portfolio.

This module offers opportunities to explore climate change issues and form the necessary quantitative skills required to evaluate the impact of climate change on the economy and business organisations. The module will also focus on the responses and policies to mitigate the effects of climate change. You'll be required to understand the role of financial and economic instruments in designing appropriate climate change tools and policies.

This module introduces you to different finance, accounting and economic dimensions of multinational financial management. Themes will include the international monetary system , historical and the development of the International Monetary System (IMS), exchange rate system; and risk management within global finance context.

This module aims to develop your understanding of the various ways in which companies can be analysed through financial modelling based on their valuation. Valuation is the analytical process of determining the current and projected worth of a company or an asset. It is one of the most critical elements of finance and successful investment in companies.