This module aims to enable students to:

Analyse and identify the external environment and internal strategic capability of an entity; evaluate the consequences of strategic choices; recommend strategies to achieve stakeholder objectives, recommend appropriate methods of implementing strategies and monitoring strategic performance; including management of business risks; and advise on corporate governance;

Identify and advise upon appropriate finance requirements; evaluate financial risks facing a business and advise upon appropriate methods of managing those risks; provide valuations for businesses and securities; and advise upon investment and distribution decisions;

Recognise and explain ethical issues, and where ethical dilemmas arise, recommend and justify appropriate actions, including ethical safeguards;

Interpret and apply corporate reporting information in evaluating business and financial performance; recognise and explain the corporate reporting con sequences of such decisions; apply corporate reporting information in appropriate models to determine asset, equity and entity valuations, demonstrating an understanding of the usefulness and limitations of accounting information in this context;

Understand and explain the role of assurance in raising new equity and debt funding and in the subsequent monitoring of such funding arrangements; understand, explain and evaluate the role of assurance in selecting and implementing key business decisions including acquisitions and strategic alliances; understand and explain the role of assurance in financial and business risk management.

(LO1) Analyse and identify the external environment and internal strategic capability of an entity; evaluate the consequences of strategic choices; recommend strategies to achieve stakeholder objectives, recommend appropriate methods of implementing strategies and monitoring strategic performance; including management of business risks; and advise on corporate governance;

(LO2) Identify and advise upon appropriate finance requirements; evaluate financial risks facing a business and advise upon appropriate methods of managing those risks; provide valuations for businesses and securities; and advise upon investment and distribution decisions;

(LO3) Recognise and explain ethical issues, and where ethical dilemmas arise, recommend and justify appropriate actions, including ethical safeguards;

(LO4) Interpret and apply corporate reporting information in evaluating business and financial performance; recognise and explain the corporate reporting consequences of such decisions; apply corporate reporting information in appropriate models to determine asset, equity and entity valuations, demonstrating an understanding of the usefulness and limitations of accounting information in this context;

(LO5) Understand and explain the role of assurance in raising new equity and debt funding and in the subsequent monitoring of such funding arrangements; understand, explain and evaluate the role of assurance in selecting and implementing key business decisions including acquisitions and strategic alliances; understand and explain the role of assurance in financial and business risk management.

(S1) Adaptability

(S2) Problem solving

(S3) Numeracy

(S4) Commercial awareness

(S5) Organisational skills

(S6) Communication skills

(S7) International awareness

(S8) Lifelong learning

(S9) Ethical awareness

(S10) Leadership

Lectures x 63 hours
Lectures will be delivered in full day blocks. A full day block of lectures involves the student attending class from 9am to 4.30pm with breaks. The day involves a range of activities which can include lectures, guided scenario and question practice, group work and open discussion on relevant business areas. Full day contact with academic staff therefore provides the opportunity for students to interact with each other and with academic staff, to work in teams and receive real time guidance.

Formative Progress Test x 3.5 hours
Unscheduled directed student hours (time spent away from the timetabled sessions but directed by the teaching staff).

Self-directed learning hours x 133.5
Self-directed learning includes wider reading on the related topic areas from academic and professional journals and the financial press, reflection on lecture content and sourcing and attempting scenario-based exercises. Structured preparation for mid-term tests also requires self-directed learning.

1. Business strategy and management;

2. Finance;

3. Corporate reporting;

4. Assurance;

5. Ethics.