BSc (Hons) International Business (University of Roehampton London)

You will specialise in international business and focus on the ways businesses operate differently in home and overseas markets.

This module will introduce you to the essential knowledge and skills in Accounting and Finance that you will need as a practicing manager. We assume that you are new to the subject and that you are a general business learner - not an accounting specialist. The module will develop your learning in stages. We'll start from familiar ideas about money and business, move through internal Accounting issues like budgets then show you the key ideas in financial statements. Finally we will give you an overview of the sources and uses of Finance required for a sustainable organisation. These will cover for-profit and not-for-profit as well as public service contexts. Along the way, you will meet important ideas around information systems for planning, controlling and making financial decisions as well as understanding the basics of risk. A grasp of these financial matters is essential in excelling in the modern business world either as a professional manager in an established company or a serial entrepreneur in a new start-up firm. This module will demystify Accounting and Finance in a way that builds confidence, promotes self-awareness, increases curiosity, develops critical thinking, appreciates independent analysis, and facilitates result orientation.