BA (Hons) - Business, Accounting and Finance (Integrated Foundation Year)

Year one

• Essential University Skills 1
  Develop the academic and professional skills required for effective learning and successful progression through your chosen course.
• Contemporary Issues and the Media
  Explore a range of contemporary issues through the lens of the media that relates to your subject area.
• Business Innovation
  Develop your own business idea and explore the interaction between different business disciplines to ensure success in profit and non-profit making organisations.
• Essential University Skills 2
  Further develop the skills acquired in Essential University Skills 1.
• Leading and Managing Individuals and Organisations
  An introduction to key concepts in leadership and management
• Individual Case Study
  Undertake an individual given case study using a problem based approach.

Year two

• Managing People and Organisations
  Gain the necessary skills and confidence to be successful within a business and management setting.
• The Business Environment
  Develop an understanding of the nature and formats of business organisations in the modern, market type economy and how they operate within the legal and economic framework.
• Introduction to Business Finance
  Develop your knowledge and understanding of how to prepare and process basic financial accounting information.
• Fundamentals of Business
  Learn about business; its scope, nature, types, management functions, systems, leadership, range and challenges and how they relate to stakeholder responsibilities.
• Principles of Marketing
  Learn about the importance of marketing’s role in driving success and delivering results.
• Management Accounting
  Develop knowledge and understanding of how to prepare and process basic cost and management accounting information to support management in planning and decision-making in a variety of business contexts.

Year three

• An Introduction to UK Law for Business
  Enhance your knowledge and skills in the understanding of the general legal framework, and of specific legal areas relating to business.
• Management Accounting for Decision Making
  Develop your appreciation for the decision making aspect of business.
• The Financial Regulatory Environment
  Study the regulatory framework of accounting and examine how this informs the standard setting process and the conceptual framework of accounting.
• Introduction to Audit and Assurance
  Develop your knowledge of internal and external audit, assurance, corporate governance and internal control.
• An Introduction to Taxation
  An introduction to theory, regulations and administration of the UK tax system as applicable to individuals and sole traders.
• Corporate Law
  Explore the formation of an organisation, the running of a business, rules governing the responsibilities and duties of those running a business and fraudulent acts within corporations.

Year four

• Corporate Financial Reporting
  Study the specific techniques involved in the preparation of published financial statements for individual companies and groups of companies in accordance with international accounting standards.
• Corporate Financial Management
  Critically evaluate the role of professional accountants in business through the lens of organisational sustainability.
• Management Accounting for Managing Performance
  Develop your budgetary planning skills.
• Business Valuation and Financial Risk
  Further develop your understanding of the role and skills expected from a senior financial manager responsible for the finance function of a business organisation.
• Audit and Assurance in Practice
  Understand the practical processes and procedures used by auditors in conducting audit engagements, including the provisions of the International Standards on Auditing.
• Negotiated Project
  Enhance your skills in critical thinking, negotiation, time management, communication and influencing through an independent piece of study or research.