The aim of this module is to equip students with the statistical and quantitative techniques necessary to conduct studies in the area of applied finance and economics.

The aims of this module are:

• To build on the pre-requisite modules.
• To examine standard cost and variances.
• To explain the behavioural considerations in the design, implementation and operation of management accounting systems.
• To encourage a critical understanding of performance measurement and management in organisations, taking into account factors such as economic, cultural, political, social and behavioural.
• To examine the management accountants’ role in changing organisational contexts.
• To understand the theoretical underpinnings that underlie different management accounting and control research.
• To consider current and future directions in management accounting and control research including the role of the management accountant.
• To develop relevant transferable skills.

The aims of this module are:

• To build on the knowledge gained in earlier studies of financial accounting and reporting.
• To explore relationships between theory and practice in financial reporting.
• To broaden and deepen students' knowledge and understanding in respect of published financial reports.
• To develop an understanding of contemporary issues in accounting and the challenges of with different proposals and solutions.
• To further encourage an openness to new ideas and awareness that in many situations there is a range of alternatives which should be evaluated.
• To develop relevant transferable skills.

The aims of this module are:

• Deepen and broaden students' understanding of conceptual and theoretical issues in accounting and financial management through real world cases.
• Develop an understanding of the analysis of firms' financial reports relevant to the investment decision and firms' valuations.
• Develop an understanding of, and apply, the tools and techniques available to value the stock of listed public companies.
• Develop and enhance transferable skills.
• Introduce alternative investment classes.

The aims of the module are to:

• Understand the role of money, equity, bond and exchange rate markets in allocating capital and managing risk.
• Analyse the functions of banks, stock markets and asset managers in the age of financial globalisation.
• Explore the efforts of governments, central banks and international financial institutions to maintain stability and manage crises.  

The aims of this module are to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.
• Provide students with hands on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.
• Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.
• Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities.

The aims of this module are to:

• Equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the role corporate governance plays in generating financial and economic development.
• Equip students with a working knowledge of governance and corporate governance frameworks; be able to critically assess alternatives.