Accounting and Finance with Foundation Year

This module aims to facilitate your development of personal, academic and professional skills as a foundation for your current and future studies in Business related subjects. It will equip you with the tools to become confident and independent learners at university.

This module equips you with the technical skills to be able to design and produce Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for business use, and to facilitate the development of basic analytical skills.

The aim of the module is to provide you with a sound foundation in basic bookkeeping and accounting techniques. 

This module introduces basic mathematical and statistical concepts and relates them to business and accounting situations and provides a foundation for further studies in business and finance. The module will introduce different data types and approaches required for analysis and enable you to appreciate the role of statistical and mathematical methods in a business environment. 

This module will provide you with an introduction to modern economic principles and develop an understanding of micro and macro economics. This module will also provide you with a thorough understanding of how economic policy can impact on the organisation.

This module will prepare you for academic life at university and to engage you in the preparation professional skills necessary for future employment. This module provides a firm foundation for undergraduate studies on the accounting and finance programme.

This module builds on the module Introduction to Financial Accounting. It develops your financial accounting knowledge and provides an introduction to the regulatory framework of accounting corporate governance and ethics.

The aim of this module is to explain the principles in designing and evaluating management and cost accounting information systems. 

This module will enable you to formulate and evaluate financial statements within the context of the prevalent regulatory framework and to demonstrate an awareness of the alternative methods of the preparation of financial statements.

This module will demonstrate the importance of costs and drivers of costs in the production, analysis and use of information for decision-making in organisations. It will provide competencies on how to analyse information on costs, volumes and prices to take short-term decisions on products and services and to develop an understanding of risk on these decisions. You will also learn how to use budgeting as a means of short-term planning to execute the strategy of organisations.

This module will provide an introduction to corporate, investment and international finance decision making.

This practical focused module will equip you with the technical skills to be able to accurately perform data modelling using Microsoft Excel. The module will facilitate the development of analytical skills.

The aim of this practical module is to provide you with the practical skills necessary to secure undergraduate work experience placements/summer internships and/or graduate employment.

This module enables you, as potential Accountants, to understand and apply a knowledge of the English Legal System, the basic Law of tort (negligence), the Law of contract, and agency. The module provides an understanding of the legal nature of the limited company and of its constitution; the basic rules for the protection of potential investors; the company law requirements concerning corporate reports and accounts; the duties of directors and auditors; the concept of majority rule and minority protection and the corporate insolvency regimes. This module will enable you to understand the basic principles of English law as it affects practical roles in the Commercial World, providing a greater depth of Company Law as a specialist area.

This module will enable you to prepare group financial statements within the context of the prevalent regulatory framework and to demonstrate an awareness of the significance of accounting theory in contemporary and practical contexts. The module allows you to demonstrate advanced accounting techniques and to critically consider these techniques and their alternatives. The module also supports a critical evaluation of accounting theory.

The aim of this module is to develop more advanced/complex techniques underpinning management accounting and to provide you with current technical and theoretical areas within management accounting. The module is designed to develop advanced knowledge and skill in management accounting theory and techniques.

The aim of this module is to provide an in-depth analysis of a firm's financing, distribution and risk management decisions. The module evaluates financial and risk management decisions within a corporate environment.

The aim of this module is to provide you with an understanding of management issues/decisions and their impact on individuals and the organisation as a whole. The module will provide an understanding of strategic management issues, to examine the competitive environment and the role of managers/leaders within the organisation. It will also provide an understanding of the relationship between culture and its impact on individual behaviour. 

The aim of this module is to give you a sound understanding of the UK tax system. 

This module will develop your knowledge and understanding of the audit process and its application in the context of the external regulatory framework and for business control purposes. The module studies in detail both the systems and risk-based approaches used by practising auditors. The differing roles of external and internal auditors are examined and also considers issues of ethics, independence and corporate governance, the regulatory framework of auditing, the impact of civil and criminal law on auditing and current developments in auditing.

This module will provide you with a rigorous framework of personal finance needed to make personal financial decisions.

You will learn about international finance and be provided with a understanding of how international finance impacts on the organisation.