Business Accounting (Top-Up) - BA (Hons)

University of Huddersfield

This module will give you a business perspective of financial and management accounting which will be invaluable in your working life, whatever career you decide to enter into. The module will progress from the understanding of published financial statements through to interpretation and critical analysis of these. The provision of internal information to aid management will also be covered, together with some of the key techniques that are used for costing, pricing and appraising business and investment decisions.

This module considers the fundamental issue of competitiveness and helps you consider strategic business responses to globalisation. You?ll explore the different types of international business operations (international trade and foreign direct investment activities) and the factors that shape these operations (organisational resources and cultural and institutional environments in different national markets). You?ll also learn to make practical strategic decisions as international managers.

This module looks at investment analysis and portfolio management using an innovative experiential learning environment ? The Portfolio Game. You?ll have the opportunity to learn about financial markets, recognise the measure and value of the risk and return and be aware of the relationships between them and be aware of the opportunities and dangers offered by international diversification, alongside learning about the available hedging techniques of managing a successful investment portfolio.

This module covers the quantitative aspects of managerial decision making that are of particular value to accountants. You?ll be introduced to methods for problem structuring, model building and problem solving. Widely used quantitative techniques are practised, to assess the robustness, validity, applicability and limitation of solutions using up-to-date computer software.

This module examines contemporary and policy issues in Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy and International Finance. You?ll have the opportunity to analyse the impact of different types of risk and uncertainty in money and finance and use appropriate theory to help decide the financial methods to avoid or reduce risk.

In this module you?ll gain an understanding of how organisations develop their strategies in relation to different aspects of their environment. You?ll study how both the internal context (e.g. organisational structure, routines and resources) and external context (e.g. institutional systems, industry structures and competition) shape organisational activities and the strategic decisions that individual managers make.