Advanced Corporate Reporting and Analysis

Code

BUSI3183

School

Business

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year UK

Summary

This module covers advanced issues in accounting, such as financial reporting, auditing, governance and financial analysis. Students will need to apply all the business knowledge they have learnt and connect them together to analyse real-life cases in accounting.

Target Students

Part II students who have taken BUSI2146 Corporate Finance AND BUSI2143 Intermediate Corporate Reporting. Also available to Exchange students.

Classes

• One 2-hour seminar each week for 4 weeks
• One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 22 weeks

Lectures: 33 hours Seminars: 8 hours Self-study: 67 hours Coursework preparation: 30 hours Exam Preparation: 60 hours.

Assessment

• 25% Coursework: Group coursework (2,500 words)
• 75% Examination (2-hour): Examination

Assessed in both autumn & spring semest

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding: 
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:
•    The dynamic and changing nature of business and the consideration of the future of organisations within the global business environment, including the management of risk.
•    The development, access and operation of markets for resources, goods and services.
•    The use of accounting and other information systems for planning, control, and decision-making.
•    The use of accounting and other information systems for managing financial risk.
•    The development of appropriate policies and strategies within a changing environment to meet stakeholder interests.
•    The design, development of organisations, including cross-cultural issues, change, diversity and values. 
 

Intellectual Skills: 
This module develops: 
•    The ability to analyse facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and identifying and selecting appropriate solutions. 
•    The ability to analyse and evaluate a range of business data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies, which includes the need for strong digital literacy, and to use that research for evidence-based decision making. 
•    Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Professional practical skills:
This module develops:
•    Numeracy and quantitative skills to manipulate data, evaluate, estimate and module business problems, functions and phenomena.
•    Self-analysis and awareness/sensitivity to diversity in terms of people and cultures. This includes a continuing appetite for development. 
•    People management, to include communications, team building, leadership and motivating others.
•    Commercial acumen based on an awareness of the key drivers for business success, causes of failure and the importance of providing customer satisfaction and building customer loyalty. 

Transferable (key) skills: 
This module develops: 
•    An awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in generating business contacts.
•    Ability to work collaboratively both internally and with external customers and an awareness of mutual interdependence.
•    Ability to work with people from a range of cultures.
•    Articulating and effectively explaining information. 

Conveners

• Dr Tarek Abdelfattah