Core modules: PG Cert

• Management Theory into Practice

  Theories of strategy and management are often avoided by many operational managers. This module, designed and delivered by two industry practitioners, provides you with a way to bridge this theory/practice divide.

• The Reflective Practitioner

  This module will enhance your self-awareness and self-understanding through the use of theoretical approaches, models and tools to support self-analysis. One of the main focuses of this module is the further development of employability and professional skills.

Core modules: PG Dip

• Action Learning for Managers

  This module will provide a framework to support managers through the processes involved in designing, undertaking and critically evaluating an action learning intervention within a selected organisation.

Core modules: MSc

• Postgraduate Major Project

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

• Management Practice Portfolio

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

Optional modules

• Challenges of Management in Practice

  This module will provide the opportunity to apply new knowledge within the context of your professional experience, reflecting on and learning from your prior experience, and developing abilities to apply this to new situations specifically to your placement/employment organisation.

• Decision Making and Problem Solving

  The module gives 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.

• Perception of Taxation

  This module is designed around a critical evaluation of Buchanan's (1984) alternative paradigms of taxation and whether changes on tax legislation focus or utilise any of these alternatives.

• Strategic Financial Analysis

  This module is relevant to all Masters level business students, with or without a relevant first degree, as it introduces the financial analysis theories and practices applicable to modern business from a strategic perspective, then develops your knowledge and ability to apply these techniques, and critically appraise their validity.

• International Strategic Financial Management

  The primary objective of this module is to provide a conceptual and analytical framework for looking at organisations operating internationally in capital, financial and operational markets. To this end, international and global considerations, both quantitative and qualitative, will be given high prominence.

• Strategic Management Accounting

  Resource utilisation is of ever increasing importance in the dynamic business environment, and appreciating resource decision making techniques is critical in driving improvement. Hence this module is aimed at those studying how organisations can make best use of their resources, particularly in the short and medium term.

• International Financial Reporting

  This module is designed to develop your understanding of financial reporting in an international and strategic context; it considers financial reports from the perspective of the external reader of this information.

• Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: An International Perspective

  This module undertakes an examination of the theoretical bases and practical application of corporate governance in the modern business environment and its historical derivation considering in particular the alternative approaches adopted by the UK and the USA and the "mixed" approach proposed by the King Report (2002) in South Africa.

• Independent Learning Module

  This module supports you in the preparation and submission of independent learning. It is intended for use only where our Faculty identifies a need. It enables you to study topics not provided within existing modules but within clearly defined parameters.

• International Financial Markets

  This module analyses 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.

• Business Planning and Finance

  Business planning and finance are recognised as having an important role to play with respect to the performance of the public and private sectors. In recognising that importance this module is designed and intended to generate in-depth knowledge and understanding of these areas with respect to enterprise, wealth and job creation and sustainable development within a modern mixed economy.