Course content for year 1
All students take BMAN10931 Financial and Digital Innovations in International Business, BMAN10501 Financial Reporting, ECON10221 Microeconomics 1, BMAN10512 Introductory Management Accounting, BMAN10522M Financial Decision Making (M), ECON10252 Macroeconomics 1, and BMAN10780 Academic And Career Development. These together form 80 credits.
Students who have taken A-level Maths (or equivalent) must take ECON10071 Advanced Mathematics and ECON10072 Advanced Statistics (together 20 credits).
Students who have taken GCSE Maths but not A-level Maths (or equivalent) take ECON10061 Introductory Mathematics and SOST10062 Introductory Statistics for Economists (together 20 credits).
Students have a choice of taking either SOCY10912 Work, Organisations and Society (20 credits), or BMAN10252 Fundamentals of Technological Change together with MCEL10002 Entrepreneurial Skills (together 20 credits).
Course units for year 1
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
Title
- Financial Reporting
- Introductory Management Accounting
- Financial Decision Making M
- Academic and Career Development
- Financial and Digital Innovations in International Business
- Microeconomics 1
- Macroeconomics 1
- Fundamentals of Technological Change
- Introductory Mathematics
- Advanced Mathematics
Course content for year 2
You will study core course units in finance, managerial economics and business strategy and choose options from accounting and finance, economics and contexts for international business. You will gain practical report writing, financial and competitor analysis and database skills through a core unit in international business strategy, using a real-life case study. Previous IBFE students analysed the performance of global earthmoving machinery giant, Caterpillar Inc.
IBFE focuses on the international context within which global businesses operate and is well-suited to students seeking international graduate positions in the UK and abroad. As such, in your second year you have the option to learn a language (which can be continued into your final year). You can choose from around 15 different languages at varying levels - visit the Language Centre for more details.
IBFE students can also choose up to 10 credits from a range of University College level 2 course units, including the Manchester Leadership Programme .
Course units for year 2
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
Title
- Foundations of Finance A
- Foundations of Finance A
- Fundamentals of Strategy
- Managerial Economics I
- Law in a Management Context
- Investment Analysis
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Marketing
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Reporting and Accountability
Course content for year 3
As well as compulsory course units in international finance, managerial economics and international business analysis, there are options in accounting and finance, contexts for international business, economics and modern languages. You will choose 60 credits of optional course units, enabling you to specialise.
The International Business Analysis Project allows you to critically analyse contemporary business practice from a social and political perspective. You will question the classical strategy tradition by exploring how the pressure to deliver shareholder value complicates the job of management. You will explore these ideas through real-life case studies, including a recently collapsed bank (Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns) and GlaxoSmithKline.
Course units for year 3
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
Title
- International Finance
- International Business Analysis Project: Corporate Management in a Wider Context
- Managerial Economics II
- Business Law 2: Law and the Modern Corporation in an International Context
- Marketing
- Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting and Regulation
- Human Resource Management
- Share Prices and Accounting Information
- Financial Derivatives
- Advanced Corporate Finance