Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19
Expand your knowledge of business finance and accounting from a management perspective.
This course shows how managers use the principles of business finance and accountancy to solve practical problems. Through application to real world problems, we develop an understanding of the action's managers take to increase the value of a company for shareholders and stakeholders.
Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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Term | Third Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Managers across the world depend upon a team of professionals to provide them with knowledge and specialised information. Key members of this team include the financial manager and the accountant. Understanding the framework of business finance and accounting principles means you develop skills and knowledge essential to becoming a skilled leader in the managerial marketplace. This course gives you the opportunity to explore business finance principles and conventions including understanding risk and return, financial statement analysis and the calculation of key metrics used daily by global corporations.
Among other topics the course includes:
By the end of this course, you will:
Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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This is an analytical piece of work that applies concepts developed in the course to real wrold companies. |
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Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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Reflective essay where students reflect upon their own learning experience through writing an essay on perceptions of financial challenges throughout the 21st century. |
Word Count | 1500 |
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Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | 0 | |
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Individual feedback provided through personal interaction with tutor. Detailed feedback is given for correct and incorrect answers in online activities. |
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Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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Conceptual | Understand | Understand the principles of investment and financing decisions that are made by financial managers and accountants and be able to apply these principles to practical problems. |
Conceptual | Evaluate | Critically evaluate the uses and limitations of the financial statements in relation to decision making. |
Factual | Understand | Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature and purpose of the three major financial statements including accounting conventions that underpin these statements. |
Procedural | Apply | Be able to calculate future values and present values and understand the time value of money. |
Conceptual | Apply | Demonstrate understanding how to value bonds and stocks using applications. |
Conceptual | Analyse | Be able to use net present value to analyse key problems that involve competing real investment projects, using the concepts of risk, return and the opportunity cost of capital. |
Reflection | Create | Develop a reflective approach to an understanding of key concepts in finance through using personal development and career experiences to create a narrative. |
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