Core courses

Accounting is the language of business. Whether you choose a career as a corporate manager, investor, advisor or entrepreneur, you will need to understand accounting information to make your business decisions. Learn the fundamental concepts in financial and managerial accounting and you will understand how business transactions are reflected in the accounts and how to analyse appropriately financial statement information. Engage in accounting data analysis to acquire first-hand experience of how professionals deal with accounting information in the real world.

Take a closer look at the needs of managers, examining markets, how they operate and how they affect firms’ choices. Evaluate major strategic bets in commodity markets and use fact-based, logically-grounded predictions about costs and the path of market prices. Identify the categories of costs that are relevant for critical business decisions such as pricing, new market entry and capacity abandonment. Learn how the interplay between cost and demand fundamentals determines profit-maximising pricing decisions and apply game theory to analyse interactions among strategic agents.

Analytics is now revolutionising the finance industry and central to most finance activities. Learn the concepts and tools needed to be at the forefront of this change. Consider how lenders can use Big Data to make faster, better credit decisions and examine how traders can use data analytics to maximise portfolio returns.

Find out how to apply quantitative methods to distinguish between different strategic options. Expose potential pitfalls, hidden benefits and look at the strategic context in which these different options will be analysed.

Prime yourself for career success, not just in terms of deliverables and meeting objectives but also in how you ‘perform’ on the organisational stage. Build coalitions, map and manage social networks, understand/change cultures and most importantly, learn how to work in teams. Our goal is to enhance your interpersonal skills, helping you navigate the social side of your organisational and professional life: Build an awareness of how social organisations work, and learn how to assess their characteristics; develop the ability to work effectively in a team and help teammates contribute at their best; and learn the social sciences necessary for you to thrive and grow within different firms.

How does a firm create value for its customer? How does it capture a share of that value for itself in the form of revenue? The goal of the marketing process is to assemble a detailed understanding of customers and prospects and to use this knowledge to organise the firm’s offer to those groups. Learn the key concepts, frameworks and tools relevant to analysing business settings from a marketing perspective and apply them to marketing-related problems, developing appropriate recommendations – and solutions – for the decision maker.