International Year Two in Business Management & Finance

To study the International Year Two in Business Management and Finance you will need to meet the following entry requirements: 

Academic: Good high school graduate grades or equivalent plus one year of further study.

English language: Academic IELTS for UKVI 5.5 (5.5 in writing and 5.0 in all skills).

Term 1
Economics of Business & Society 2
This module covers:

• Microeconomic concepts and principles
• Demand and supply
• Averages and at the margin
• Government regulation of economic activities
• Normative and positive analysis
• Societal welfare
• The historical development of economics as a social science

Accounting & Entrepreneurship 2
This module covers:

• Management accounting
• Classification of costs
• Marginal and absorption costing
• Break-even analysis
• Management accounting for decision-making
• Introduction to budgeting and cash flow

Term 2
International Business 2
This module covers:

• Business organisations
• Marketing
• Human resource
• Management
• Operations
• Innovation
• Corporate social responsibility
• International markets
• Gender
• Political, cultural, technological, legal and environmental issues

Global Economy 2
This module covers:

• Causes of the recent financial crisis
• Macroeconomic issues and problems
• The Keynesian model and fiscal policy
• Unemployment and inflation
• The financial system and the macroeconomy
• Trade and exchange rates

Understanding Statistics
This module covers:

• Organising and representing data
• Averages and variability
• Probability and decision making
• Probability distributions
• Sampling distribution
• Estimation
• Hypothesis testing
• Chi-square tests
• Correlation and regression

Term 3
Managing Organisations
This module covers:

• Management models and theories
• Managing organisational structures and practices
• Diversity and managing change and conflict in the workplace
• Managing performance and development
• Managing innovations
• Mechanisms of control
• Organisational development
• Organisational change

Financial Markets
This module covers:

• Financial markets
• Banking: retail and wholesale, and regulation
• Non-bank financial institutions
• Credit ratings
• Financial crisis
• Foreign exchange market
• Governance and ethics
• Globalisation of financial markets

Marketing
This module covers:

• Marketing concept
• Marketing environment
• Marketing mix
• Marketing in practice

Finance, Risk & Investment 2
This module covers:

• Investment and financial risk
• Types of risks and measuring risks
• Value-at-risk and volatility modelling
• Interest rate risk measurement
• Operational risk management for financial institutions
• Credit risks, credit derivatives
• Managing risks
• Regulatory framework on managing risks

Operational Management
This module covers:

• Operations strategy
• Designing jobs/products/services
• Process types and process layout
• Capacity management
• Supply chain management
• Inventory management
• Lean operations and JIT
• Quality management
• Process technology
• Project management

Business Finance 2
This module includes:

• Models of financial valuation, including discounted cash flow and variants
• Development of models of organisations’ financing, including analysis of debt and equity choices
• Portfolio analysis and the basics of portfolio selection and performance measurement
• Contemporary developments in the finance of businesses and in financial markets

£15,750 Course Fee (ISC)

£235 Enrolment Fee (non-refundable) 

£1,000 Deposit