BA (Hons) Business Management with Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

You’ll find this course really valuable if you’re thinking about a business opportunity or have a business start-up idea to develop. The course covers professional competencies, marketing, financial accounting, people and HR, management, small and medium-sized enterprises, enterprise operations, funding and market research.

Year 1

• Concepts of Management
• Principles of marketing
• Accounting & Finance for Managers
• People and organizations
• Business economics
• Management and information systems

Year 2

Core modules:

• Fundamentals of project management
• Managing the principles of e-business
• Managing business and innovation
• Managing business logistics and negotiations
• Business ethics today: social and legal foundations

Optional modules:

• Audit and assurance
• Business contracts
• Diagnostic analytics
• Emerging markets, and the Asia-pacific business environment
• Environmental economics and sustainability
• Financial accounting and analysis
• Fundamentals of finance
• Fundamentals of project management
• Marketing research
• Human resource management
• Retail operations
• Social media in a business context
• A foreign language and applied research report

Year 3

• Strategic management and leadership
• Leading and managing SMEs
• Lean to Agile Enterprise Operations
• Funding entrepreneurial projects
• Plus two options from:
• Management accounting for decision making
• Practical analytics
• Mobile applications – from idea to mass adoption

Entrepreneurial finance

• Individual and organisational learning and development
• Legal protection of business creativity
• Brand management
• PRINCE2® – methodologies for project management
• Retail boutique and shopper behaviour
• Business research methods
• Professional placement module
• Modules are assessed by a mix of coursework assignments, presentations and exams.

Employability

You’ll be well prepared when you graduate for a career in business, enterprise and management. And all the way through the course, employability skills are promoted – with guest speakers from industry, business insights, graduate start-up and entrepreneur schemes. Take a look at some of the roles our recent graduates have gone into:

• Consultant at JCW
• Talent Intelligence Manager at Talent Intelligence
• CEO at BoxUp Crime
• Freelance Web Developer