Core modules: PG Cert

• Accountability Through Audit

  This module will examine how the role of audit has changed in response to criticism and it will consider different approaches to audit. Such discussion will consider the UK Audit Commission model of auditor appointment, client focus audits and the training of auditors. We will also consider the concept of the audit expectations gap and review associated case law.

• Decision Making and Problem Solving

  This module will give you the skills and knowledge necessary to develop frameworks and approaches to decision making, by critically examining theoretical models and relating them to business experience.

• Strategic Financial Analysis

  This module will be relevant to all Masters level business students, with or without a relevant first degree, as it will examine, from a strategic perspective, those financial analysis theories and practices applicable to modern business.

Core modules: PG Dip

• International Accounting

  This module will adopt an international outlook on modern financial accounting and reporting, whereby the diversity of practices in various countries is evaluated from a historical, economical, political, sociological and technological perspective.

• Strategic Management Accounting

  This module will assume a basic knowledge of management accounting techniques (such as marginal costing and cost-volume-profit analysis, absorption and activity-based costing) from which it will develop into a variety of decision making areas.

• Research Methods for Managers in an International Context

  This module provides you with the appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities you will need to effectively carry out a piece of small-scale business or management research.

Core modules: MSc

• Postgraduate Project

  This module will support you in the preparation and submission of a Masters stage project or Dissertation.

Optional modules

• International Financial Markets

  Here, you will analyse the nature and recent development of security, product and derivative financial markets in a global setting. It examines these markets from the perspective of corporate users and private and international investors.

• International Business Environment

  This is a broad-based introduction to the environment in which the international business must operate, focusing on economic, legal, political, socio-cultural, ethical, ecological and technological factors.

• International Corporate Finance

  This module will extend, develop and apply some of the materials introduced in the International Financial Markets module. It will focus on key aspects of the financial operations related to maximising the valuation of a corporation in an international environment.

• Venture Capital and Private Equity

  This module will explore the current structure and operation of the venture capital and the private equity sectors around the world.

• Management Theory into Management Practice: Global Perspectives

  This module will synthesise contemporary management theories with the experiential, practice-based management approaches actually adopted within private and public sector organisations.

• Finance for Non-Financial Managers

  This module covers a range of financial skills and knowledge expected of non financial managers. The focus of the module is the operational financial issues most likely to be faced by managers; budgets, budgetary control and decision making.