BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance (Top-Up)

The overall aim of this module is to help you develop valuable knowledge and skills of the global graduate labour market drawing upon national and international exemplars. This enables you to explore key aspects of your knowledge, skills, personality, values, abilities and interests to enable you to make well-informed career choices, develop an appropriate long-term career plan and achieve the job and/or development you aim for.

Traditional management accounting approaches could not readily adapt at the pace necessary to deal with changing contextual environments. As a result, the discipline came in for a barrage of sustained criticism and its continued relevance to organisations was questioned. Calls from the accounting profession and enlightened academics prompted a more strategic focus to reinvigorate and sustain the added value of the management accounting discipline.

Strategic management accounting was to evolve as a form of management accounting in which emphasis is placed on information which relates to factors external to the firm, as well as non-financial information and internally generated information. The concept has also broadened into areas of strategic control and change with impacts and implications practices of costing, management control systems, budgeting and integrated performance management systems, which are to be explored in this module.

The aim of this module is to equip you with the ability to comprehensively understand corporate reports. As end users of published financial statements, students must be able to critically evaluate the quality of the information given in these reports.

On this module, you will learn about critical thinking and reflection, and by doing so, you will develop the necessary critical skills to perform both of these effectively as a learner in higher education. You will learn about the necessary academic skills required to undertake a critical review of existing literature on a contemporary issue within the business and management disciplines. On completing this, you will be able to undertake a critical literature review on a subject appropriate to your degree programme.

You will learn how organisations can compete successfully in economic terms while managing their corporate, social and environmental responsibility. At the end of the module you will learn to critically evaluate the factors which underpin an organisation’s success (or otherwise) in managing the triple bottom line and will have learned how to use appropriate frameworks to analyse research material and draw useful conclusions.

This module is designed to allow you to show an appreciation of some of the most pressing contemporary financial issues facing companies today in the international environment as well as to be able to apply the impact of these to the creation of wealth and value by managers.

The aim of this module is to facilitate the development of your independent learning over the one-year course. Induction and on-going personal support activities are to be phased in line with the academic development and the need to support the delivery of programme modules.

This module is designed to support your transition in the use and practice of technical language and subject specific skills around assessments and teaching provision in your chosen subject. Specifically, this module aims to develop your abilities to read and study effectively for academic purposes; to develop your skills in analysing and using source material in seminars and academic writing and to develop your use and application of language and communications skills to a higher level.