Finance, Accounting and Management with Placement Year BSc

This module looks at the use of accounting information systems in financial and management accounting and their control and audit. You'll cover topics such as:

• introduction to systems
• business processes
• budgeting and decision support systems
• internal control and audit
• computer crime and external audit
• enterprise resource planning systems

This module concentrates on the major investment and financing decisions made by managers within a firm.

This module addresses the application of financial reporting principles in preparing financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards for a range of transactions and economic events. This module also develops your understanding of the role of external audit and audit theory and practice. 

This module will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of quantitative economic modelling at a basic level. The theoretical framework will be developed around the classical regression model and its extensions, with theoretical understanding being supplemented with computer-based practical examples of modelling and data analysis. 

This module will introduce the following topics:

• Activity based costing
• Process costing
• Transfer pricing
• The changing role of the management accountant
• Curvilinear cost functions (for example, the learning curve)
• Pricing decisions and strategies
• The range of alternative approaches to performance measurement and their respective merits/problems

This module provides you with a theoretical and applied overview of strategic management in today's operational environment. It introduces and analyses the key concepts, frameworks and techniques of strategic management, which allow them to diagnose complex situations related to real-world business development. 

In this module you'll study further maths and statistics including topics such as linear algebra, constrained optimisation, difference equations and hypothesis testing. 

This module will foster your understanding of the process by which business organisations make effective use of labour, and the policies they employ to this effect. Topics covered include:

• employees' incentives in organisations
• the hiring process
• training and labour turnover
• employee pay and performance
• trade unions
• employment relations

This module will introduce you to:

• supply chain fundamentals, including: the supply chain planning processes and the need for them
• planning processes and methods, including: forecasting; aggregate planning; MRP; capacity management; theory of constraints (TOC); JIT (kanban); inventory management
• IS/IT support for planning including ERP systems
• planning through the supply chain, examining the challenges in different contexts through case studies

We examine the development of, and current issues in, public services management to include public management, bureaucracy, leadership, e-government, and public service. 

This module explores the development, implications and effects of tax in all its forms, for example, income tax, national insurance contributions, corporation tax, capital gains tax and value-added tax.

We’ll also explore tax in the context of different types of income, benefits-in-kind and various types of allowances, reliefs and losses.

By the end of this module, you’ll understand the importance of tax planning for individuals and businesses and the current issues and developments that affect the global business environment.

This will help you to understand the dynamic nature of business, which feeds into your wider understanding of risk management, decision-making and customer service excellence.

This module explores the nature of work and society. It will look at the development of our understanding of work and society. The development of the industrial and the post-industrial society will be explored and its impact on the nature of work, organisation and management.

There will be a historical and critical review of the schools of thought and key writers. Examples of research into individual and group experiences of work, organisation and management will be discussed.

In today’s dynamic business environment, organisations, large or small, must develop the capability to anticipate and respond to external changes. These changes may represent opportunities or threats for companies. This module examines corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and explores how firms can balance innovation with sustainability to achieve long-term success.

You will gain a deep understanding of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and how larger organisations can be designed to foster entrepreneurial, innovative, flexible and sustainable approaches. You will: 

• develop a comprehensive understanding of CE, its forms, and how it distinguishes from independent entrepreneurship

• analyse the conditions, organisational processes, and barriers that influence the successful implementation of CE in larger firms

• critically evaluate the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship, innovation management, and long-term organisational outcomes

This module examines the process of relational database design and implementation using relevant theory. Applications of modern databases will be studied and all students will be required to create a database system, fully documented, to solve a given problem.  

This module will examine and explore:

• the interactions between and the management of tourism and the environment from the perspective of key stakeholders including business, government, non-governmental organisations, tourist and local communities
• the emergence of environmentally concerned consumers and the implications of different environmental paradigms for tourism development
• debates surrounding the environmental and economic impacts of tourism to highlight the potential for both conflict and consensus
• the role played by pressure groups in influencing tourism development and the emergence of nature/eco-tourism

Much economic and business behaviour deviates from the traditional views of rationality - for example, utility and profit maximisation. This module provides an overview of alternative views of decision making from behavioural economics and the economic psychology of individual choice.

The focus is both on new methods of economic enquiry and the insights they have generated into economic and business decision making. These new approaches include: experimental and cognitive economics; neuroeconomics; economics of emotions and happiness; behavioural finance; cultural economics; social preferences and evolutionary psychology.

We examine the development of, and current issues in, public services management to include public management, bureaucracy, leadership, e-government, and public service. 

This module will introduce you to:

• supply chain fundamentals, including: the supply chain planning processes and the need for them
• planning processes and methods, including: forecasting; aggregate planning; MRP; capacity management; theory of constraints (TOC); JIT (kanban); inventory management
• IS/IT support for planning including ERP systems
• planning through the supply chain, examining the challenges in different contexts through case studies

This module will foster your understanding of the process by which business organisations make effective use of labour, and the policies they employ to this effect. Topics covered include:

• employees' incentives in organisations
• the hiring process
• training and labour turnover
• employee pay and performance
• trade unions
• employment relations

This module explores the development, implications and effects of tax in all its forms, for example, income tax, national insurance contributions, corporation tax, capital gains tax and value-added tax.

We’ll also explore tax in the context of different types of income, benefits-in-kind and various types of allowances, reliefs and losses.

By the end of this module, you’ll understand the importance of tax planning for individuals and businesses and the current issues and developments that affect the global business environment.

This will help you to understand the dynamic nature of business, which feeds into your wider understanding of risk management, decision-making and customer service excellence.