The learning strategy for the module requires students to commit 300 learning hours. Of this there will be 72 hours of class support, and 228 hours of self-directed study. Learning support material will be provided for the module.

Topics will be introduced in lectures and developed in tutorials.

The module will draw upon all of the following:
- Tutor-led sessions
- Class exercises
- Exercises to be completed outside class
- Directed reading

This module will focus on techniques available to assess and manage the financial aspects of corporations with a particular emphasis on the management of risk.

The following topics will contribute to the material covered in this module:-

- The regulatory and conceptual framework of corporate financial reporting
- Corporate governance
- Financing business
- Financial statements analysis
- Cost structures
- Budgetary control
- Working capital management
- Cost-volume-profit analysis
- Performance measurement
- Investment decision making methods
- Risk appraisal and management using hedging
- Option pricing
- Corporate investment decisions under uncertainty
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model and its application within corporate management
- Applications of game theory

One class test (1 hour) weighted 25%
One examination (2 hours) weighted 75%

University library and computing facilities

Atrill P and McLaney E (2011). Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, 7th edition, Pearson, ISBN:0-273-74596-4
Jackson I, Golby J D and Wyld J (2010) Managing Risk for Postgraduates, 2nd edition, Pearson, ISBN 978-1-84959-192-8
Perks R and Leiwy D (2010). Accounting - Understanding and Practice, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-007712478-6