Studying our Business Management with Finance BSc (Hons) course will equip you with in-depth skills and knowledge in the combined areas of business, finance and accounting. Embedded within the course design is an opportunity for you to develop research skills, employability skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, professional and responsible behaviours, and be transformed into knowledgeable and effective managers in any working environment. This course will enable you to keep up with the changing trends in financial ecology exploring latest financial technologies. In your first year, you will receive support in Beginning your Professional Business Journey that will help to ease your transition into university and provide an insight into professional business environments. In Evolution and Revolution of Business, you will explore how businesses operate, develop, progress and impact society while examining how certain business trends have evolved over time. At the same time, Applied Numeracy for Business will give you the confidence to develop the mathematical and numerical skills used for decision making and problem solving for businesses.

To diversify your learning, you will also be provided with a range of skills for leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, management analysis, strategy setting and finance in our Management in Practice unit. In your second year, Data and Research Methods for Business will provide you with the knowledge and skills to conduct research and analyse data in a business context. In other areas of study, our Financial Theory and Practice unit will discuss core finance theories for you to analyse financial statements and identify revenues and costs for management solutions and decision making. When working in business, it is also important that you build on your employability skills such as teamwork, time management, presentation and communication. This is where our Managing Business Complexity unit will support your development of these skills while exposing you to real-life, complex business issues and how to create viable solutions for clients based on this.

To prepare you for your career, our Employability and the Future Workplace unit will support you in developing the skills needed to prepare for interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres. Another crucial skill in the business world is risk management, and this is where our Risk and Responsibility unit will develop your understanding of business challenges, responsible management and business ethics in a global context. Here, you will learn to apply risk management frameworks and risk mitigation strategies across systemic, financial, operational and strategic risks. In your final year, in our Business Finance unit you will develop your knowledge and analytical skills on the efficient and effective management of the scarce financial resources within the business context in order to achieve set corporate objectives. Moreover, you will be equipped with data manipulation techniques in our Data Driven Business unit while exploring trends and ethical concerns around data collection, use and analysis.

Building on this, you will gain thorough knowledge around accounting theory and practice in our Financial Reporting unit that will enable you to exhibit financial reporting responsibility. You will be encouraged to take risks in our Innovation and Entrepreneurship unit while learning to design innovative business models, discover how to start a new business and build your understanding on concepts of entrepreneurship. Finally, you will conduct a thorough piece of academic research exploring evidence-based solutions for business problems in our Business Project unit that will allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the academic research paradigms. This course also aims to offer a range of employability and career opportunities through practice-based pedagogies utilising business cases, simulations and live projects - preparing you for the future workplace. At the same time, you will learn from our staff that have significant years of experience in the industry and have actively engaged in supporting SMEs through our Research and Innovation Services.