This course is designed to equip you with the business knowledge and skills needed in today's global economy and provides a general business education that will prepare students for a wide variety of managerial careers.
It will prepare you for a variety of employment opportunities in major areas of business. A carefully designed and employer-supported management development programme runs through the degree.
This suite of courses allows you to specialise in one of seven distinct streams or to follow the integrated route. All business and management students study the same modules in the first year of the course. Final year modules are different according to your selected stream.
This course allows you to either specialise or follow an integrated route and the modular design gives you considerable choice.
The second year focus is on the management of business operations and functional areas; this will develop and deepen your understanding of the subjects in which you choose to specialise. You will take modules relating to core areas of management and continue to enhance your management skills as the course unfolds. You may also continue to study a language.
You can confirm your original choice of degree or change to any of the other degrees in the suite. You may wish to study a range of modules covering a number of major management functions.
Year 2
Financial Planning and Control
This module develops your understanding of how accounting information can be used by management to plan and control the activities of the organisation. It also gives an appreciation of other uses of accounting information, including an introduction to the Stock Exchange and the City, and the audit process.
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Management Development Programme II
This module extends the learning in the first year of the course with further focus on personal and career development.
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Principles of Marketing
The module introduces you to the principles of marketing in a business and management context, focusing on the role of marketing within the organisation and its interaction with other business functions. The module also helps you to develop practical marketing abilities.
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Elective Modules
Choose three from:
Quantitative and Statistical Analysis
You will examine the relevant mathematical aspects of economic analysis that are important for a full appreciation of analytical and quantitative economics.
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Organisational Behaviour
This module will develop a wide-ranging analysis and understanding of the behaviour of people at work as well as the dynamics of work organisations.
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Operations Management I
This module will review the relevant techniques for the analysis and management of business operations, with particular reference to the manufacturing industry. It will also introduce the concept of systems analysis and its relevance to manufacturing, supply, transport and service operations. The module will also examine OM at the tactical level.
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Language Option
You may continue to study a language.
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Year 3
Corporate Strategy
In this module you will acquire an organisation-wide perspective through exploring strategic planning and processes and learn to relate strategic models and theories to the real world of organisational success and failure. You will develop your analytical and evaluative skills through problem/case analysis and develop your team working and problem-solving skills to evaluate objectively your peers' performance.
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Business Finance
Efficient financial management requires the existence of some standard objective or goal by which performance may be judged, the objective being maximisation of shareholder wealth. This module will provide you with a thorough understanding of the role of the financial manager within a company and also the external financial environment in which businesses operate. It will also introduce you to the concept of risk management in business organisations. You will examine the investment, financing and asset management decisions of a business and their related risk/return tradeoffs, and understand the theory and practice of mergers and take-overs.
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Management Simulation OR Management Practice and Research: Dissertation
Management Simulation
This module develops your ability to implement, review and appraise business strategy, objectives and management decisions within the context of a dynamic, competitive market environment. You will develop understanding of the complex interactions that characterise decision-making in organisations, and consequently the importance of thinking beyond a single functional perspective. You will also develop your understanding of the nature and use of planning in dynamic business environments and improve your employability through experience of real-time business decision-making in a simulated environment.
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The following module is only available to students who have taken the Industrial placement year:
Management Practice and Research: Dissertation
You will identify and focus on a specialist area of research related to an aspect of your degree course; execute a substantial piece of independent research and produce a scholarly and critical dissertation.
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Elective Modules
Choose three from:
Business Taxation
The module introduces you to the nature and operation of core areas of taxation related to businesses and their employees, so that you can perform basic taxation consultations and demonstrate the ability to consider the taxation implications of business proposals.
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Company Law
You will acquire a sound knowledge of the legal framework relating to companies and their management; develop the capability to apply legal principles in the solution of business and management problems arising in a corporate context; and gain an appreciation of the impact of policy and the wider business context on corporate legal developments.
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Financial Reporting
In this module you will evaluate and apply the UK and international regulatory framework of financial reporting; prepare financial statements of limited companies; analyse and evaluate financial statements; evaluate and apply the requirements of specified accounting standards; and evaluate the financial reporting requirements of groups of companies.
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International Finance
You will examine critically the rationale for international trade and investment and gain an understanding of the operations of foreign exchange markets and their significance to business. You will develop knowledge of and an ability to evaluate risk management in an international context and learn to appreciate the history of foreign exchange markets and international finance within the context of finance and economic theory.
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Management Accounting Techniques
The module will provide an opportunity to apply management accounting techniques to business problems, with an emphasis on practical problem solving to complement the theoretical coverage on the year 2 modules Financial Planning and Control.
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