Business Management (Accelerated) BA (Hons)

Behind every business decision sits a set of numbers, and you'll learn to read them properly. You'll examine how businesses are financed and the limits that financing creates, how accounting profit is calculated, and how to identify the cash flows and break-even points relevant to a project decision. You'll build skills in budgeting, cash and working capital management, and financial statement construction, along with appraising long-term capital investments and valuing company shares.

From your first days at university, to the end of year one, you'll build the foundations a business career needs: data literacy, professional digital skills, and a clear picture of your own strengths. You'll explore Nottingham's real business landscape, understand what employers look for, and put together a development plan that maps your ambitions to the career you want.

Businesses run on decisions, and the best decisions are built on evidence. This module works through the methods professional economists and data analysts actually use. You will apply concepts to real management problems: examine trade-offs, allocate resources and draw conclusions from data. Hands-on practice is built in throughout, so you leave with skills you can use.

Why do some organisations thrive and others stall? You’ll find out how people are managed and motivated, how teams work in person and remotely, and how leadership shapes the culture. You'll get a sharper eye for why organisations are structured the way they are. And you'll put the theory to work through workplace simulation activities, practising the skills before you need them for real.

You'll build your marketing knowledge around a real brief: developing a new product idea for an actual business. As you work through the process, you'll cover the core concepts from customer segmentation and the marketing mix to new product development. By the end, you'll know how to identify what customers want, build a case for delivering it, and present a marketing plan with both a UK and international dimension.

Organisations of every kind face the same fundamental pressure: how to grow and stay resilient when the world keeps shifting. You'll examine how different types of organisation make decisions, develop operations, and respond to external threats and opportunities. Entrepreneurial thinking runs through the module, alongside the practical skills needed to spot a problem and design a solution.

This module is introduced just before you start your internship and is designed to guide you throughout your 36-48 week period within the workplace. You will acquire business management knowledge and understanding within your internship role / organisation and be supported to develop, and practice, a range of skills including the ability to prioritise, plan and manage your workload, work collaboratively with others, give and receive feedback, solve problems within the workplace and reflect systematically on your working experiences.

Develops your understanding of the human aspects of managing and organising work, considering the nature of the changing context of managing and organising.

This module explores the role of marketing management and its interaction with other business functions. You will study marketing management concepts that are used during the development of sound marketing strategies, and will develop effective group and personal skills that are valued highly by organisational employers. You will learn about the application of marketing tools to different contexts, as well as segmentation, targeting and positioning.

This module explores the role of information systems in organisations and provides an analysis of their impact on marketing, the management of information, and their contribution to competitive advantage.

For this module you will undertake a purposeful, individual, in depth study of a relevant topic, developing your independent learning, critical thinking and knowledge of research techniques relevant to your subject area. The project will develop your ability to manage a major piece of work, for which you will be completely responsible, and will be completed over a period of several months. You will learn to utilise and improve your time management and communication skills, as well as test your initiative and resourcefulness.

To support your development during this module you will study essential skills such as critical thinking, conducting a literature review, understanding the appropriate research framework, practical research methods and skills, report and academic writing skills.

You'll study the key concepts, frameworks and models behind strategic marketing, including the challenges of putting a strategy into action and keeping it on track. You'll explore how marketing managers respond to a complex, fast-changing global environment, and build the skills to run a full marketing audit, using its findings to shape marketing objectives and choose between strategic options.

This module provides an opportunity for you to reflect on the skills and behaviours you've developed throughout your degree and put them to the test in a "live" consultancy project set by a real organisation. Working in a team with other students you'll address the brief and present your findings and recommendations to the client and your tutors. Later in the module you'll explore subject specific competences for career readiness and debate important themes on the agenda of all businesses such as diversity and inclusiveness, ethics and sustainability. By the end of the module, you'll have a sharper understanding of the impact you want to make to business and society and the confidence to take your next steps forward with purpose.

You'll bring together strategic management and entrepreneurship. You'll research and identify entrepreneurial opportunities, and explore what drives the entrepreneurial process, whether you're building your own venture or creating new ways of working within an existing organisation, large or small. You'll examine how businesses change as they move from emerging to growing to mature, and get to grips with innovation, networking and entrepreneurial leadership as practical concepts, not just theory.

In this module, you'll explore how organisations use data, information and knowledge to shape their strategy. You'll examine the role of technology in business decision-making, the importance of data literacy, and how organisations adapt to evolving challenges. Using real-world examples, you'll learn to distinguish between data, information, and knowledge, and understand their impact on shaping management practices and strategic opportunities. This module will equip you with the skills to navigate the complexities of digital transformation and make informed decisions in a data-driven environment.

During this module you will study current recommendations and developments in the field of corporate governance both in the UK and in a selection of overseas countries. The module aims to highlight the importance of control and risk management when implementing strong governance measures, and will evaluate the ethical and moral dilemmas faced by those entrusted with these responsibilities. You will also learn to determine and evaluate measures of fraud identification, prevention and investigation.

The development of successful products and services involves complex processes and is dependent on how well research, design and innovation activities are integrated with other functions in the organisation. This module will develop your understanding of the relationships between creativity, design and innovation and explore and debate a range of perspectives concerning their nature. It will develop your critical awareness of theories related to the origins and role of creativity at individual, team and organisational levels, and teach you to appreciate, understand and contemplate some of the issues facing organisations trying to harness the potential from their creative resources.

What works as good management in one country can fall flat in another. You'll unpack why, drawing on international perspectives to explore different management styles and philosophies. Your own experiences of national and organisational culture become part of the discussion, as you examine the problems that arise when organisations manage across diverse cultures and work through the solutions needed.

A product's journey from raw material to customer touches marketing, design, distribution, logistics and project management. You'll learn to view supply chains strategically and globally, working through lean and agile approaches, forecasting and the bullwhip effect, and how design choices like postponement and mass customisation ripple through a chain. You'll also cover sustainability, CSR and environmental impact, and how to manage risk.

Explore how businesses market across borders, from the shifts in world trade to ethical, environmental and sustainability issues. You'll look at how buyer behaviour changes from one market to another, and work through the differences between export, international and global marketing strategy. You'll investigate how businesses research international markets and how marketing communications strategies are built across a range of industries and organisations.