First activity
In your first few weeks at university, you will be engaging in the following modules that will provide a foundation for your course going forward. The modules are taught alongside each other to allow for connected learning.
Foundations of Management:
This enlightening module explores the theory and research around the field of management. It looks at the social system, impact of change and relationships between the organisation and its environment. The world is increasingly unpredictable, and its challenges are seldom simple enough for a lone business leader or a single organisation to solve, this module starts to address these challenges. Sustainability Development Goals can be mapped throughout the module.
Marketing in the Business Environment:
Marketing plays an important role in developing relationships with the organisation and its wider environment such as customers, communities and other stakeholders. As consumer behaviour is changing, influenced by many different factors including social and situational ones. It is so important for the organisations messages to reflect the principles of the organisation.
Introduction To Management Accounting:
All those who work for, or deal with businesses need to understand accounting. This module aims to look at the nature of accounting, exploring the main concepts underpinning management accounting. Sustainability requires accountants and management to monitor and manage not only financial information but also non-traditional data to guide strategic decisions. Management accountants are ideally placed to fulfil this role. The main branches of cost accounting and decision making as well as cost minimisation and revenue maximisation are explored using a blend of theory and practice.