Accounting and Finance BSc (Hons)

Foundations of Marketing

To provide the student with the foundations for understanding the principles of marketing and to understand how such concepts apply to marketing practice in business.

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

This module introduces you to the concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics and how they can be applied to improve organisational performance and generate competitive advantage. It will provide you with opportunities to critically reflect on the significance of AI and Data Analytics within the workplace.

Please note: you will need to study this module to be eligible to take later modules in this area beginning with OIM5015-B (Big Data Analytics for Business) at Stage 2.

OIM4012-B will deepen your understanding of key AI and Data Analytics techniques, tools and methods currently being used by organisations. You will become familiar with the societal impact of AI and the ethical dilemmas this creates, enabling you to develop your own ethical stance on the use of AI. You will also develop an awareness of skills and the fundamental data analysis techniques that are utilised in AI systems.

Operations and Technology Management

1. Help students appreciate the value of technology in operations to plans, decide and take actions as managers and workers of tomorrow.

2. Raise student understanding of different types and varieties of systems available for operations in order to exploit them for the benefit of organisations.

3. Understand how technology is acquired, and then managed in organisations.

People, Work and Organisations/Work in Context

To develop an understanding of some of the key factors that impact upon and influence human behaviour in organisations and the workplace, and address ethical and corporate social responsibility issues associated with these factors whilst doing so.

To develop an awareness of the assumptions and approaches which underpin the differing theoretical perspectives employed for studying people in organisations and the workplace.

To enable you to understand your own and others' roles in organisations and the workplace more effectively.

Principles and Practices of International Business

This course aims to familiarise students with key concepts, terminologies, theories and frameworks of international business studies. It also encourages an in-depth discussion of the engagement between International Business and other actors such as national governments and international institutions in the context of changing global economy and an appreciation of the principles underlying the internationalisation strategies and key features of the international business environment within which firms operate.

Business Economics

To introduce you to key economic concepts, principles and policy.

To enable you to become effective business managers by attaining an understanding of the micro and macroeconomic environments of business.

To understand and analyse business and economic problems in the UK, Europe and the global economy.

To develop an economic understanding of the debates related to sustainable economic development.

Business Law and Ethics for Accountants

To provide you with an understanding of the main legal structures in business, its legal nature and its duties and liabilities. You will also explore the importance of ethical considerations and how they impact on our understanding of both law and business and management practices.

Introduction to Accounting

To provide a broad understanding of financial accounting and management accounting concepts and techniques that are relevant in today's business environment. This module aims to promote the awareness of issues relating to sustainable and responsible reporting.

Introduction to Finance

This module provides a solid introduction to fundamental concepts in finance and financial statistics. It gives an overview of the finance area and is essential to students wanting to study finance and pursue a career in finance and/or accounting.

After a brief introduction to the finance topic, the module analyses the fundamental concept of the time value of money, and then introduces the valuation of bonds and shares, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, risk and return, personal finance and financial markets. It also introduces you to some of the statistical methods used in finance.

Principles of Responsible Management and Practice

This module introduces students to the concept of responsible business enterprise and the approaches, techniques and organisational self-assessment frameworks (PRME/Global Compact/Three Pillars of sustainable development) influencing and underpinning its development.

More broadly the module will consider the management challenges associated with ensuring such enterprises achieve their performance objectives in a sustainable global environment. In doing so, students will explore sustainable organisational performance through interrelated concepts such as; strategy, best practice/fit and techniques and frameworks for self-assessment gaining a contextual understanding of the organisational challenges in meeting both regulatory and voluntary social and environmental responsibilities.

Students will explore organisations through a range of theories including, organisation behaviour and design, operational management, leadership and ethics, ensuring they understand the factors influencing and underpinning their successful development. Furthermore, the module will introduce students to the concepts of corporate social responsibility and in doing so explore the role of government in facilitating and/or inhibiting responsible enterprise. Issues of ethical and strategic leadership and the impact of technology, data and ethics and globalisation will also be considered in this context.

Auditing

The AFE5009-B Auditing module is designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding of auditing concepts, approaches, and skills essential for managing auditing and assurance engagements. It covers the entire audit process, from acceptance and planning to conducting, reviewing, and completing audit reporting. The module focuses on developing practical skills and a deep understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of auditing

You will learn how to manage audit engagements effectively, ensuring compliance and quality in audit processes. By the end of the module, you will be equipped to handle various auditing tasks with confidence and competence.

Digital and Social Media Marketing

The emergence of internet enabled digital and social media platforms have fundamentally changed the way in which organisations communicate with stakeholders and engage in marketing activities. This internet marketing course focuses on the practical application of social media and digital marketing tools in organisations with the aim of setting up and maintaining a presence in the digital and social world. Organisations of all size can leverage on digital and social media channels for marketing opportunities, but they need experts with necessary expertise to use them effectively. Therefore, this module aims to build on students existing marketing knowledge to enable them to critically evaluate and harness the power of various digital and social media platforms for successful marketing.

Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation

This module develops students' applied entrepreneurial capability in both new venture and organisational (intrapreneurial) contexts. Building on Level 4 foundations and complementary to the Level 5 Entrepreneurship & Employability module, it focuses on creativity for value creation, opportunity shaping, hypothesis‑driven experimentation, evidence‑based decision‑making, and professional communication. Students will work on practical entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial challenges, applying creativity and innovation processes to develop and test venture concepts, while individually completing reflective tasks that strengthen independent learning and personal development.

Integrated Marketing Communications

To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the key concepts and theories underpinning current practice in the creation and delivery of effective marketing communications strategies. To provide students with practical application experience of the message design, selection and use of promotional tools and media within an integrated marketing communications campaign

Consultancy Skills and Practice

1. To develop a detailed understanding of the principles of good consulting practice.

2. To provide participants with an understanding of the skills required in management consulting professional environment.

3. To prepare students to apply programme learning to businesses and organisations through consultancy projects.

Strategic Management

To develop the relevant knowledge, understanding and analytical abilities to enable students to undertake an in-depth strategic analysis of a company or organisation of their choice.

Entrepreneurship and Employability

This module introduces students to the concepts of entrepreneurship and employability, providing the knowledge and skills necessary to engage with the entrepreneurial process and enhance future career prospects. The module explores both broad and narrow interpretations of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset, contextualising these within organisational settings and new venture creation.

Through a blend of interactive lectures, practical workshops, and activity-based learning, students develop transferable skills that enhance both employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. The module adopts a learning by doing philosophy, requiring students to engage actively with realistic business and professional challenges designed to develop core entrepreneurial and employability capabilities.

By the end of the module, students will have developed a critical understanding of entrepreneurship and employability, practical skills in opportunity identification and evaluation, and enhanced capabilities in communication, reflection, and personal development planning.

Financial Accounting

To develop further understanding of external accounting reports, in particular their analysis, evaluation and the regulations and policies governing their preparation.

The module introduces the idea of the social responsibility of corporations and those who prepare financial statements, and discusses the wide range of corporate stakeholders whose rights and needs should be addressed with justice and fairness.

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4005-B.

Financial Management

This module seeks to extend the theoretical and practical aspects of financial management. The module focuses on a wide range of important financial evaluation tools, techniques and underpinning theories relevant for decision making for business organisations in today's competitive environment. The rationale for the module is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the factors which impact on the making and implementation of financial decisions and to promote a critical understanding of how companies are valued.

Management Accounting

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4005-B. It aims to build on the knowledge in that module to:

* Develop in students an in-depth understanding of the theory, concepts and techniques used in management accounting in order to support management decision-making processes.

* Provide students with an appropriate skills base for the formulation of management accounting solutions to problems of a management control and/or strategic management nature.

Multinational Finance and Investment

To introduce firms' investment and financing decisions in both national and international settings. To provide an understanding of the fundamentals of building investment portfolios. To equip with practical knowledge and understanding of the functioning of foreign exchange markets. To analyse both international and national investment strategies.

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4004-B.

Digital Campaign Planning and Content Management

Digital marketing is becoming synonymous to marketing and has evolved from just set of tactical actions into a significant element of strategy. With more options available to organisations to reach their audience than ever, organisations are more cautious of their campaign budgets and only invest in campaigns that could make the most difference. Content is often the king in successful digital campaigns with all the elements such as content curation, creation, and atomisation playing a crucial role. This module aims to encourage students to create integrated inbound marketing campaigns with digital marketing at the heart for maximising campaign reach, interaction, response and return on investments (ROI). This module also aims to encourage students to be able to evaluate the various digital marketing channels available to organisations, as well as formulate a digital marketing strategy.

Leading and Managing People

1.To present students with a detailed critical introduction to the history of and major developments within the field of leadership studies and related fields of people management.

2.To demonstrate the relationship between leadership, management, and organisational performance, and to develop an appreciation of challenges that this relationship might have in practical application.

3.To develop a conceptual understanding of how to translate key leadership theories, concepts, principles and techniques into practice, enabling students to manage people and processes more effectively.

Risk Management and Derivatives

This module aims to equip you with a sound understanding of risk governance, its methods and practicalities and its potential management through derivative products. You will develop the requisite conceptual and analytical skills for identifying the form and nature of risk, for evaluating its extent and consequences, and for formulating effective measures involving derivatives as an effective risk reduction technique. It develops new tools for risk management, but also extends those introduced in previous accounting and finance modules, enabling you to make prudent and valuable judgments.

International Business Strategy

The aim of this module is for you to discover and fully appreciate the vital importance of different strategies for organisations in the global business context.

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

To provide an understanding of the philosophical and sociological context of business ethics and (corporate) social responsibility.

To introduce some of the most prominent ethical frameworks which can be used to analyse policy and practice in contemporary business organisations at both the micro and macro levels.

Contemporary Issues in Economics

To introduce you to the latest developments in applied economics, allowing you to develop a deep understanding of current economic issues and the arguments underlying policy making.

Cross-Cultural Management

1. The module aims to develop an understanding of the influence of cross-cultural differences on management practices in organisations engaged in cross-frontier business activities.

2. The module seeks to equip you to be able to identify and manage problems and issues arising from cross-cultural differences.

Innovation in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

To build on the concepts introduced in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Module where students are introduced to the concept of supply chains/networks as an essential means of competitive advantage in all commercial/industrial activities. This module will focus on the need for change in the face of global challenges to existing business/logistics/supply chain models. The drivers for change will be identified and quantified as catalysts for innovation in supply chain design. The need for a holistic view of business models including moving to concepts such as circular business models and social enterprise models will be analysed in terms of their impact on supply chain and logistics models. Innovation in supply chain design and applying it to improve current business models is the focus for this module

Empirical Methods in Accounting and Finance

This module aims to provide you with sound conceptual understanding and core practical skills necessary for empirical research within accounting and finance. It aims to develop your analytical skills and enable you to make use of data and suitable methods to assist decision making within firms, organisations and other entities. It aims to enable you to undertake appropriate empirical analysis for completing your research project and to enable you to develop applied skills which would be useful for future roles as a finance or accounting professional.

International Accounting and Reporting

To help students develop a critical understanding of the nature of, and the factors influencing, accounting and corporate reporting practices around the world, and the efforts by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and other bodies to harmonise accounting and corporate reporting practices. To develop in students an awareness and appreciation of the common problems in corporate reporting and problems that diversity of accounting and reporting practices create to users of corporate reports, as well as some of the contemporary issues that firms and the IASB have had to deal with.

Accounting and Finance Project

The Individual Project provides the final year student with the opportunity to develop investigative skills and the ability to present a coherent project. Specifically, to investigate in detail a particular area or topic in accounting and or finance.

Taxation

To introduce the key concepts of business and personal taxation.

To gain exemption from the primary taxation exams of professional accounting bodies (ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW), and as a primer for the latter stages of professional institute accounting exams.

To train you in the key technical skills of calculating solutions to complex tax problems.

Foundations of Marketing

To provide the student with the foundations for understanding the principles of marketing and to understand how such concepts apply to marketing practice in business.

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

This module introduces you to the concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics and how they can be applied to improve organisational performance and generate competitive advantage. It will provide you with opportunities to critically reflect on the significance of AI and Data Analytics within the workplace.

Please note: you will need to study this module to be eligible to take later modules in this area beginning with OIM5015-B (Big Data Analytics for Business) at Stage 2.

OIM4012-B will deepen your understanding of key AI and Data Analytics techniques, tools and methods currently being used by organisations. You will become familiar with the societal impact of AI and the ethical dilemmas this creates, enabling you to develop your own ethical stance on the use of AI. You will also develop an awareness of skills and the fundamental data analysis techniques that are utilised in AI systems.

Operations and Technology Management

1. Help students appreciate the value of technology in operations to plans, decide and take actions as managers and workers of tomorrow.

2. Raise student understanding of different types and varieties of systems available for operations in order to exploit them for the benefit of organisations.

3. Understand how technology is acquired, and then managed in organisations.

People, Work and Organisations/Work in Context

To develop an understanding of some of the key factors that impact upon and influence human behaviour in organisations and the workplace, and address ethical and corporate social responsibility issues associated with these factors whilst doing so.

To develop an awareness of the assumptions and approaches which underpin the differing theoretical perspectives employed for studying people in organisations and the workplace.

To enable you to understand your own and others' roles in organisations and the workplace more effectively.

Principles and Practices of International Business

This course aims to familiarise students with key concepts, terminologies, theories and frameworks of international business studies. It also encourages an in-depth discussion of the engagement between International Business and other actors such as national governments and international institutions in the context of changing global economy and an appreciation of the principles underlying the internationalisation strategies and key features of the international business environment within which firms operate.

Business Economics

To introduce you to key economic concepts, principles and policy.

To enable you to become effective business managers by attaining an understanding of the micro and macroeconomic environments of business.

To understand and analyse business and economic problems in the UK, Europe and the global economy.

To develop an economic understanding of the debates related to sustainable economic development.

Business Law and Ethics for Accountants

To provide you with an understanding of the main legal structures in business, its legal nature and its duties and liabilities. You will also explore the importance of ethical considerations and how they impact on our understanding of both law and business and management practices.

Introduction to Accounting

To provide a broad understanding of financial accounting and management accounting concepts and techniques that are relevant in today's business environment. This module aims to promote the awareness of issues relating to sustainable and responsible reporting.

Introduction to Finance

This module provides a solid introduction to fundamental concepts in finance and financial statistics. It gives an overview of the finance area and is essential to students wanting to study finance and pursue a career in finance and/or accounting.

After a brief introduction to the finance topic, the module analyses the fundamental concept of the time value of money, and then introduces the valuation of bonds and shares, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, risk and return, personal finance and financial markets. It also introduces you to some of the statistical methods used in finance.

Principles of Responsible Management and Practice

This module introduces students to the concept of responsible business enterprise and the approaches, techniques and organisational self-assessment frameworks (PRME/Global Compact/Three Pillars of sustainable development) influencing and underpinning its development.

More broadly the module will consider the management challenges associated with ensuring such enterprises achieve their performance objectives in a sustainable global environment. In doing so, students will explore sustainable organisational performance through interrelated concepts such as; strategy, best practice/fit and techniques and frameworks for self-assessment gaining a contextual understanding of the organisational challenges in meeting both regulatory and voluntary social and environmental responsibilities.

Students will explore organisations through a range of theories including, organisation behaviour and design, operational management, leadership and ethics, ensuring they understand the factors influencing and underpinning their successful development. Furthermore, the module will introduce students to the concepts of corporate social responsibility and in doing so explore the role of government in facilitating and/or inhibiting responsible enterprise. Issues of ethical and strategic leadership and the impact of technology, data and ethics and globalisation will also be considered in this context.

Auditing

The AFE5009-B Auditing module is designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding of auditing concepts, approaches, and skills essential for managing auditing and assurance engagements. It covers the entire audit process, from acceptance and planning to conducting, reviewing, and completing audit reporting. The module focuses on developing practical skills and a deep understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of auditing

You will learn how to manage audit engagements effectively, ensuring compliance and quality in audit processes. By the end of the module, you will be equipped to handle various auditing tasks with confidence and competence.

Digital and Social Media Marketing

The emergence of internet enabled digital and social media platforms have fundamentally changed the way in which organisations communicate with stakeholders and engage in marketing activities. This internet marketing course focuses on the practical application of social media and digital marketing tools in organisations with the aim of setting up and maintaining a presence in the digital and social world. Organisations of all size can leverage on digital and social media channels for marketing opportunities, but they need experts with necessary expertise to use them effectively. Therefore, this module aims to build on students existing marketing knowledge to enable them to critically evaluate and harness the power of various digital and social media platforms for successful marketing.

Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation

This module develops students' applied entrepreneurial capability in both new venture and organisational (intrapreneurial) contexts. Building on Level 4 foundations and complementary to the Level 5 Entrepreneurship & Employability module, it focuses on creativity for value creation, opportunity shaping, hypothesis‑driven experimentation, evidence‑based decision‑making, and professional communication. Students will work on practical entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial challenges, applying creativity and innovation processes to develop and test venture concepts, while individually completing reflective tasks that strengthen independent learning and personal development.

Integrated Marketing Communications

To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the key concepts and theories underpinning current practice in the creation and delivery of effective marketing communications strategies. To provide students with practical application experience of the message design, selection and use of promotional tools and media within an integrated marketing communications campaign

Consultancy Skills and Practice

1. To develop a detailed understanding of the principles of good consulting practice.

2. To provide participants with an understanding of the skills required in management consulting professional environment.

3. To prepare students to apply programme learning to businesses and organisations through consultancy projects.

Strategic Management

To develop the relevant knowledge, understanding and analytical abilities to enable students to undertake an in-depth strategic analysis of a company or organisation of their choice.

Entrepreneurship and Employability

This module introduces students to the concepts of entrepreneurship and employability, providing the knowledge and skills necessary to engage with the entrepreneurial process and enhance future career prospects. The module explores both broad and narrow interpretations of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset, contextualising these within organisational settings and new venture creation.

Through a blend of interactive lectures, practical workshops, and activity-based learning, students develop transferable skills that enhance both employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. The module adopts a learning by doing philosophy, requiring students to engage actively with realistic business and professional challenges designed to develop core entrepreneurial and employability capabilities.

By the end of the module, students will have developed a critical understanding of entrepreneurship and employability, practical skills in opportunity identification and evaluation, and enhanced capabilities in communication, reflection, and personal development planning.

Financial Accounting

To develop further understanding of external accounting reports, in particular their analysis, evaluation and the regulations and policies governing their preparation.

The module introduces the idea of the social responsibility of corporations and those who prepare financial statements, and discusses the wide range of corporate stakeholders whose rights and needs should be addressed with justice and fairness.

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4005-B.

Financial Management

This module seeks to extend the theoretical and practical aspects of financial management. The module focuses on a wide range of important financial evaluation tools, techniques and underpinning theories relevant for decision making for business organisations in today's competitive environment. The rationale for the module is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the factors which impact on the making and implementation of financial decisions and to promote a critical understanding of how companies are valued.

Management Accounting

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4005-B. It aims to build on the knowledge in that module to:

* Develop in students an in-depth understanding of the theory, concepts and techniques used in management accounting in order to support management decision-making processes.

* Provide students with an appropriate skills base for the formulation of management accounting solutions to problems of a management control and/or strategic management nature.

Multinational Finance and Investment

To introduce firms' investment and financing decisions in both national and international settings. To provide an understanding of the fundamentals of building investment portfolios. To equip with practical knowledge and understanding of the functioning of foreign exchange markets. To analyse both international and national investment strategies.

This module has a pre-requisite of AFE4004-B.

Digital Campaign Planning and Content Management

Digital marketing is becoming synonymous to marketing and has evolved from just set of tactical actions into a significant element of strategy. With more options available to organisations to reach their audience than ever, organisations are more cautious of their campaign budgets and only invest in campaigns that could make the most difference. Content is often the king in successful digital campaigns with all the elements such as content curation, creation, and atomisation playing a crucial role. This module aims to encourage students to create integrated inbound marketing campaigns with digital marketing at the heart for maximising campaign reach, interaction, response and return on investments (ROI). This module also aims to encourage students to be able to evaluate the various digital marketing channels available to organisations, as well as formulate a digital marketing strategy.

Leading and Managing People

1.To present students with a detailed critical introduction to the history of and major developments within the field of leadership studies and related fields of people management.

2.To demonstrate the relationship between leadership, management, and organisational performance, and to develop an appreciation of challenges that this relationship might have in practical application.

3.To develop a conceptual understanding of how to translate key leadership theories, concepts, principles and techniques into practice, enabling students to manage people and processes more effectively.

Risk Management and Derivatives

This module aims to equip you with a sound understanding of risk governance, its methods and practicalities and its potential management through derivative products. You will develop the requisite conceptual and analytical skills for identifying the form and nature of risk, for evaluating its extent and consequences, and for formulating effective measures involving derivatives as an effective risk reduction technique. It develops new tools for risk management, but also extends those introduced in previous accounting and finance modules, enabling you to make prudent and valuable judgments.

International Business Strategy

The aim of this module is for you to discover and fully appreciate the vital importance of different strategies for organisations in the global business context.

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

To provide an understanding of the philosophical and sociological context of business ethics and (corporate) social responsibility.

To introduce some of the most prominent ethical frameworks which can be used to analyse policy and practice in contemporary business organisations at both the micro and macro levels.

Contemporary Issues in Economics

To introduce you to the latest developments in applied economics, allowing you to develop a deep understanding of current economic issues and the arguments underlying policy making.

Cross-Cultural Management

1. The module aims to develop an understanding of the influence of cross-cultural differences on management practices in organisations engaged in cross-frontier business activities.

2. The module seeks to equip you to be able to identify and manage problems and issues arising from cross-cultural differences.

Innovation in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

To build on the concepts introduced in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Module where students are introduced to the concept of supply chains/networks as an essential means of competitive advantage in all commercial/industrial activities. This module will focus on the need for change in the face of global challenges to existing business/logistics/supply chain models. The drivers for change will be identified and quantified as catalysts for innovation in supply chain design. The need for a holistic view of business models including moving to concepts such as circular business models and social enterprise models will be analysed in terms of their impact on supply chain and logistics models. Innovation in supply chain design and applying it to improve current business models is the focus for this module

Empirical Methods in Accounting and Finance

This module aims to provide you with sound conceptual understanding and core practical skills necessary for empirical research within accounting and finance. It aims to develop your analytical skills and enable you to make use of data and suitable methods to assist decision making within firms, organisations and other entities. It aims to enable you to undertake appropriate empirical analysis for completing your research project and to enable you to develop applied skills which would be useful for future roles as a finance or accounting professional.

International Accounting and Reporting

To help students develop a critical understanding of the nature of, and the factors influencing, accounting and corporate reporting practices around the world, and the efforts by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and other bodies to harmonise accounting and corporate reporting practices. To develop in students an awareness and appreciation of the common problems in corporate reporting and problems that diversity of accounting and reporting practices create to users of corporate reports, as well as some of the contemporary issues that firms and the IASB have had to deal with.

Accounting and Finance Project

The Individual Project provides the final year student with the opportunity to develop investigative skills and the ability to present a coherent project. Specifically, to investigate in detail a particular area or topic in accounting and or finance.

Taxation

To introduce the key concepts of business and personal taxation.

To gain exemption from the primary taxation exams of professional accounting bodies (ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW), and as a primer for the latter stages of professional institute accounting exams.

To train you in the key technical skills of calculating solutions to complex tax problems.