Core Modules and Electives

Stage One - September to December

Foundations of Knowledge and Professional Skills

Provides you with the requisite quantitative awareness and analysis of the production of ‘knowledge’ within management, marketing and finance and encourages you to begin developing the necessary personal skills for both academic and business environments.

Organisational Behaviour

You will examine organisational culture; motivation groups and organisation; organisational development; human resource issues; and structure and work organisation.

Accounting for Managers

You will study accounting information for decision making, planning and control; cost and activity management; the budgeting process; performance appraisal; and investment appraisal.

Marketing Design and Operations

You will examine integration of marketing and product design; strategy and product marketing; identifying new markets from product innovation; and marketing and product delivery.

Strategy, Business Information and Analysis

You will examine the nature of strategy; the role of rationality; learning and the organisation; managing risks; competitive advantage; and creating strategic objectives.

Stages Two and Three - January to May

Corporate Finance

This module introduces the firm; equity; issuing shares; costs of issue; rights issues etc; debt; warrants; convertibles; leasing and quasi-debt; valuation of a company; mergers; growth and failure and disinvestment.

Business Ethics in a Global Context

What are ethics? Why are they important? Traditional examinations of ethics; a ‘new’ ethics; legitimacy and corporate life; corporate social responsibility.

Two electives from:

*Subject to availability

 Stage Four - May to September

Research Methods

Dissertation

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