Accounting and Finance

This module provides an introduction to the concepts of financial accounting including recording fundamental transactions and preparing simple financial transactions. The fundamental principles underpinning financial accounting will be covered, along with recording transactions for several key areas. The module will also cover the preparation of extracts of key financial statements.

This module will consider the wider environment in which businesses operate, and the strategies adopted to promote success. Basic strategic tools will be considered, and the importance of this to corporate success will be evaluated.

This module covers the goals and decision of organisations, the market system and competitive process, the financial system and the macroeconomic context of business. This is contextualised to consider the relevance of this for those operating in the financial sphere.

This module will begin to embed the key digital skills required in the rapidly evolving digital world. The module will utilise a variety of software and consider how technology can be used to both generate and present relevant information. relevant information.

This module will cover the fundamentals of management accounting such as cost classification and behaviour, costing methods and decision-making techniques. The module will introduce the fundamental principles used by management to plan, control and make decisions.

This module provides students with the ‘soft skills’ required to begin their career planning and consider future career choices. The module will look at both personal development e.g. resilience, personal learning styles, and professional development e.g. CVs, presentation skills.

This module will provide students with the mathematical and analytical skills required for future finance professionals. The application of analytics to business mathematics will be considered, alongside the development of IT skills in the key area of Excel.

This module will provide an introduction to the legal and ethical backdrop in which finance professionals operate. It will consider the formation of companies and legal entities, and the rules governing this. It will also demonstrate the importance of ethical behaviour, linking to ethical scandals and poor corporate behaviour.

This module provides an introduction to the fundamentals of financial management. Topics include working capital management, investment appraisal and business valuation.

This module builds on the digital skills module at Level 4 and will further develop the digital skills required for the business professionals of the future. The module will equip students with the skills to confidently use accounting software to document and control financial transactions and to export financial information from the system to other office software, in order to undertake further analysis and produce professional reports.

Building on both the Fundamentals of Management Accounting and Business Environment modules at Level 4, the module will teach students how to produce, analyse, interpret and discuss management accounting information for planning, control and decision-making. In addition, this module will further examine the role of strategy within an organisation, and how this links to the management accounting information produced.

This module will cover all aspects of business law that are relevant to a professional accountant, such as corporate law, negligence and insolvency. The basic principles of employment law will also be considered.

Building on the Personal and Professional Development module at Level 4, this module will continue to develop the ‘soft skills’ required by employers. Students will have the option to engage in mock employability tasks and develop their own professional skills. Engagement in departmental employability events will be an integral component of this module.

This builds on the Fundamentals of Financial Accounting at Level 4. It introduces new and more complex accounting standards, and the full preparation of full financial statements. The module also considers how financial information can be analysed, and the relevance of this. In addition this module will consider the concept of assurance and how this operates in practice. Students will study the fundamentals of an audit and the significance of this for companies.

Building on the Continuing Professional Development module at Level 5, this module will further embed the employability skills required to ensure students are ‘job ready’ on graduation. Students will have the opportunity to engage in a wide variety of employability-based events which will simulate a real-life job application.

A substantial piece of research work, drawing upon academic theory to produce a critically reflective work which adds to an area relevant to the degree and employability.

This module builds on Financial Reporting and Assurance at Level 5. The application of complex accounting standards will be considered, alongside the preparation of group financial statements and advanced analysis measures. The conceptual backdrop will be linked to business governance, which considers the requirements for businesses in terms of legal requirements for governance and recent developments.

This module builds on Management Accounting and Business Operations at Level 5. This module will focus on understanding and using the concepts of contemporary management accounting for strategic business decisions. It will also link into advanced strategy and consider how strategic tools are used by businesses to evaluate and monitor performance.