BU5026 - Accounting and Finance for Managers

Credit Points: 15

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Whittington

Pre-requisite(s): Students must be registered for Postgraduate programmes in Business Administration, or management, Enterprise & Innovation.

Co-requisite(s): x

Note(s): x

To introduce key areas of accounting and finance. To enable students to read and interpret financial statements. For the students to be able to use financial numbers in decision making - both short term & long term (including net present value techniques) For students to understand how companies are financed and to be able to calculate and interpret key stock market ratios.

12 two hour lectures and a one hour tutorial each week for 11 weeks

1 assessment (30%) and 1 two hour exam (70%)
(resit: 1 two hour exam 100%)