BPES modules

The aim of this module is to develop certain accounting related skills, by explaining the techniques of financial accounting and management accounting, and examining their relevance to the broader issues of financial decision-making and management control in organisations. The module gives you a basic insight into the way that business performance is measured, and how business decisions can be structured and analysed.

Economics provides a useful set of tools for analysing the world and aiding decision-making by businesses and governments. This module aims to give you an overview of several of these tools and of the insights that can be obtained with them. We will particularly focus on the tools most relevant to businesses. We will pay particular attention to the actions of firms and individuals in the context of market interaction and strategic (game theoretic) interactions in business contexts.

Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying and exploiting a new business opportunity. An entrepreneur must understand the competitive landscape, estimate the potential demand for their products or services, assess risks and returns, and develop and execute the possible ways to deliver their claims to the best set of consumers. The entrepreneur also needs to acquire resources (funding), compile a team, and generate a vision for the fledgling enterprise.

The entrepreneurship online module offers you a unique opportunity to build your knowledge, skills, experience and networks for starting up a new venture in any industrial or social domain.

The purpose of this module is to introduce economic concepts encountered  in business contexts and provide a framework for modelling the interaction between consumers and producers. Students will study alternative market structures, ranging from monopoly to perfect competition and identify and analyse strategic interaction between market place participants.

The module aims to equip students with the skills to organise and shape the innovation process in firms. Student will develop an understanding of how innovation emerge and gain adoption in the market place and how firms can transform themselves into effective innovators. They will be expected to understand, interpret, and evaluate managerial strategies and structures associated with different types of innovation. They will also learn different ways in which organisations seek to profit from their innovations.

The goal of this module is to learn the fundamentals of how to manage  organisations strategically. Business strategy asks the central question: why do some companies succeed while others fail? The module will provide you with the concepts, principles, frameworks and methodologies necessary to analyse and understand how to formulate and implement the appropriate policies and strategies for a firm. In order to do, you will be taking a general management perspective in this module and will think of how each action, decision or event will affect the firm as a whole.

This module aims to give an overview of the two key financial instruments: Stocks and Bonds. It will also introduce the key derivatives marketing: Futures and  Options. You will be introduced to the concepts of risk and return in  financial markers  and how diversification influences risk and return. This module will explore the concept of the cost capital and how it can be calculated. You will learn how companies are financed and how to decide between different sources of finance. 

The aim of this module is to enable students to understand of of the core purposed of finance: the setting of  prices  in a market. The first half of the course works at a market-level, dealing with risk-management and diversification. The  second half of the course works at the security-level, thinking about bond, stock, and derivative valuation.

Working with others, leading teams, making  unbiased decisions and managing conflict are some of the soft skills that are relevant in  the workplace. This module will help you answer a number of questions: Why do some leaders prove effective, while others do not? Is it good to have conflict in teams? How can social networks help organisations or individuals achieve their goals? The module focuses on two aspects of managing and leading organisations.

First, we explore how to influence and motivate others to get cooperation for your own goals. Second, we explore the organisational systems that coordinate individual work to meet business objective and the impact of technology and new business models on how we work.

The module provides students with an understanding of project management and it's central role in the modern business organisations. Students will learn about the key concepts, frameworks and models of project management and types of project organisation. Using practical examples, the module will demonstrate how these approaches  can be successfully applied in the management of major project and project-based organisations.