| Compulsory
Modules |
Business Strategy |
The module integrates the functional
interrelationships explored in Managing Resources
and provides the student with a holistic perspective
of how organisations determine their strategic
direction. The module examines the strategic
decision-making process through an investigation of
external and internal environment, strategic options
and implementation. |
| Strategic Financial Management |
This module supports the student's study of the
relationship between financial markets and companies, in
particular the principle of shareholder value
maximisation, and the implications of this for internal
management of companies and business units. It aims to
facilitate the acquisition by students of a balance of
skills and knowledge including skills in applying
quantitative techniques; the ability to interpret and
explain the results of these calculations; the ability
to critically evaluate the techniques; and the capacity
to relate these to the external contexts in which
companies operate and in particular the influence of
capital markets on corporate behaviour. |
| International Finance |
This module is designed to underline the importance
of global financial markets in influencing trade,
domestic economic policy and world economic welfare. It
concentrates on the markets’ products and how they are
used by market players in the elimination of financial
risk, the promotion of trade and the pursuit of private
profit. It also analyses and investigates the role of
governments and external agencies in the regulation of
such markets to balance the effects of free capital
flows. |
| International Marketing |
This module provides opportunities for students to
specify and justify innovative strategic marketing
solutions for organisations. |
Optional Modules
(Choose 2 Modules) |
Strategic Global Operations |
The module will consider the impact of business
‘drivers’ such as cost, customer location, barriers
to entry, profit potential, economies of scale and
how these affect the organisation and its design to
be effective within the global business environment.
It examines how an organisation manages its
operations strategically in a global environment. |
| New Business Development |
This module provides students with the opportunity
to practise and evaluate realistic decision-making in a
simulated business environment, taking account of
internal and external information. The implications of
decisions on different functional areas of an
organisation are evaluated. |
| Corporate Reporting |
The module provides an advanced level course into
the nature and importance of the external financial
reporting environment facing large corporations. The
course looks at alternative philosophical perspectives
on the role of, and justification for, financial
regulation, and explores attempts to developing
conceptual frameworks for financial reporting. The
module then looks at various theories for the
recognition of income and value, within the framework of
the current accounting and stock market regulatory
requirements. The political and economic pressures on
corporate governance and accountability in the UK are
explored, before contrasting these with various
international financial reporting regimes and current
developments to I City Code and the convergence of UK
and International Financial Reporting Standards.
Finally, alternative economic and sociological
perspectives on financial reporting are investigated. |
