PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

COURSES	KEY CONTENTS
Contemporary Issues in Accounting	Professional behaviour of accountants  and compliance with accounting standards Ethical requirements of financial reporting and the consequences of unethical behaviour Corporate governance regimes Analysis and interpretation of financial statements Environmental and social financial reporting Global management accounting techniques and approaches for a variety of management challenges within a rapidly changing business environment Various forms of organisational structure and transfer pricing techniques Management control systems Quantitative methods and risk assessment in management accounting
Corporate Financial Strategies	Corporate value Raising equity capital Long-term debt finance Short-term and medium-term finance Managing capital structure Dividend policy Mergers and acquisitions Finance distress, restructuring and liquidation International capital markets International corporate finance and governance Current issues on finance research and the practice in the corporate sector
International Financial Management	Globalisation and the multinational firm International monetary system Balance of payments The market for foreign exchange International parity relationships The derivative market and hedging strategies Foreign direct investment International capital budgeting International portfolio investment and diversification Multinational treasury management Current topics  in International Finance
Risk, Regulation and Compliance	Economic Ideology Information Asymmetry and Contract Theory Regulatory Economics Compliance (Management, Costs and Taxation) Central Bank Supervision Socially Sustainable and Inclusive Business Models Liquidity Risk Management (Basel III) Off-Balance Sheet Asset Management Risk Modelling Role of Credit Reference Agencies Regulation as a Driver of Strategy and Product Development in Financial Services Complementary and Alternative Regulatory Structure

Dissertation (Business Innovation Project)

The syllabus will provide a broad, integrated and highly integrated programme of study, designed to facilitate self management of the research project. Subjects include:

• Research approaches design and methodology
• Entrepreneurship
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Business contexts –  large and small organisation perspectives
• External and internal factors and their effects on the behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations
• Internal factors, functions and processes, structures and governance, operations and management
• Self reflection and criticality in the research process
• Developing skills for reflective, collaborative and adaptive learning

Students will have lectures on

• Selecting suitable research topics
• Literature searching – what constitutes a literature search
• Methods used to collect and analyse primary data
• Methods used to collect and analyse secondary data
• Analysing and presenting research findings