Asks how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions – exploring functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Relates these questions to your own experience and equips you for a wide range of employment opportunities.
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Asks how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions – exploring functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Relates these questions to your own experience and equips you for a wide range of employment opportunities.
This degree allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. Combining this with the study of a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities, and can provide a key to the global workplace.
Economic considerations play an important role in our personal lives and influence key social and political issues such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and climate change. The analytical skills and statistical techniques that this degree develops are highly valued by employers.
This degree provides an innovative introduction to the world of business and gives you specialised knowledge and skills in marketing. You’ll investigate what’s involved in marketing, how businesses develop marketing strategies, and how does marketing work with other business functions such as human resource management, accounting and finance.
The UK’s most flexible degree programme that lets you study any subjects you like, in any combination – enabling you to build a unique qualification that exactly matches your personal and professional development needs.
As the world of accounting and finance becomes more complex, this specialist degree is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the role of accounting and finance/financial management within business and society. Offers exemptions from some Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) professional examinations.
Designed to familiarise you with the business world and give you specialist IT knowledge – enabling you to offer employers a wide ranging and highly valuable skillset that meets the needs of today’s technology-dependent organisations.
This specialist diploma is designed to provide you with an understanding of the role of accounting and financial management within business and today’s society to an intermediate level.
Explores the nature of contemporary business organisations – from their processes, core functions and structure to their culture and behavior – and wider aspects such as the markets and environments in which they operate.
This diploma allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. It offers a solid grounding in key concepts associated with business management and in the use of your chosen language. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities and can provide a key to the global workplace.
This is one of several subject combinations available in our Diploma of Higher Education in Computing & IT and a second subject (W42). With this diploma, you can specialise in an area of computing and IT and combine it with business, dividing your time equally between subjects. Computing and business have become closely intertwined throughout the world of work. You will gain insight into all facets of the world of business: markets, organisations, processes, strategies, policies and decision making.
This diploma will introduce you to core macro and microeconomic concepts and theories and you'll learn how economics helps your understanding of real-world issues such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and innovation.
This innovative diploma will introduce you to the business world and give you specialised knowledge in the essentials of marketing. You’ll learn how goods and services are bought, what this means for contemporary marketing, and how marketing works with the key functions of an organisation such as human resources; operations management; and accounting and finance.
Our Diploma of Higher Education Open gives you the freedom to design your own multidisciplinary qualification from a choice of subject areas. Whatever your reasons for studying, you’ll expand your knowledge, improve your skillset, and create a diploma individual to you. Not only is the Diploma of Higher Education Open a recognised qualification in its own right, but it also makes up Stages 1 and 2 of a BA/BSc (Honours) Open. So if you want to continue studying towards a degree, you’re part way there.
Explores the essentials of business and management. Choose a broad approach, or focus on leadership practice, accounting, economics, innovation & enterprise or marketing – with optional modules including communication, personal finance or mathematics.
This certificate allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. It offers a broad grounding in key concepts associated with business management and a sound knowledge of the basic concepts associated with the study of your chosen language.
This is one of several subject combinations available in our Certificate of Higher Education in Computing & IT and a second subject (T13) – you’ll divide your time equally between the two subjects. Computing and business have become closely intertwined throughout the world of work. You will be introduced to various facets of the world of business, and you will explore the profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes driven by the digital technologies that surround us.
By studying this certificate, you'll appreciate how economic theory helps understand real world important issues in areas such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and innovation. You’ll discover how economics and the economies have evolved over time. This will give you a building block towards acquiring a critical perspective on economics and economic choices for our daily lives. As you’re learning about income, expenditure, savings and investments, you'll gain practical tools and ideas on how to manage your own money effectively.
You can enjoy the freedom of studying a range of subjects that interest you with our Certificate of Higher Education Open. You can design your own multidisciplinary qualification to get a grounding in one or more subjects, or you can use it as the first step towards a BA/BSc (Honours) Open or Diploma of Higher Education Open. Whatever you choose, you’ll develop a breadth of knowledge and transferrable skills that can boost your personal or professional ambitions.
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