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Description

Why study Business Management at Dundee?

The content of our two business management degrees is topical and relevant. We want you to understand the nature, power and limitations of various business and management techniques; how management and non-management workers can influence a business' performance; how business and other types of organisations can help society to function and address society's problems.

Our teaching staff are leading experts in the areas of business and management. In addition, they are committed to providing a stimulating, supportive, friendly and well organised environment for students.

Most of our staff have business experience as well as an academic background. They have strong links with companies as well as professional bodies. Thus, the degree content is informed both by innovations in practice and developments in academic thinking.

What's so good about Business Management at Dundee?

Throughout the degree guest lectures are given by managers and specialists from a variety of businesses and other organisations to help you appreciate how business management issues are handled in the real world.

In addition, students on the BSc Business Management degree have the opportunity through the Business Management Internship Module, to participate in a short placement with a local firm in order to see how the business management skills that they have studied can be used in practice. You will also have the opportunity to use this experience as material for an elective Dissertation module in your final year of study.

Student visits

Outside visits are also organised to help you appreciate how business management issues are handled in practice.

For example, depending on your module choices you might visit financial institutions in Edinburgh and London or companies within the Tayside area.

Employability

Our degrees are designed to prepare you for a wide variety of careers in the areas of business and organisational management. They provide a business management education emphasising analytical, decision-making and communication skills. These skills are needed in organisations of all types and sizes both in the UK and internationally.

Your career is important to us and the practical relevance of our business management degrees is kept under careful review. We liaise with employers and the university careers service to ensure that they continue to meet the needs of the graduate employment market. In Level 2, you will have the opportunity to go on a short placement in a local business which will further increase your employability after graduation.

Our graduates are to be found working all over the world in a variety of interesting and challenging jobs. Many are employed by large multi-national firms or with smaller firms in the UK including manufacturing companies and financial institutions some as managers in specialist positions and some as accountants; some operate in the public sector, while others are running their own businesses.

UCAS Code: N200

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee

The fees you pay will, in most cases, depend on your current country of residence.

The fee shown is annual, and may be subject to an increase each year.

Fee category

Fees for students starting September 2015

Scottish students

£1,820 per year of study (for Sept 2014 entry). Fees for September 2015 will be confirmed by the Scottish Government in early 2015.

Rest of UK students

£9,000 per year, for a maximum of 3 years, even if you are studying a four year degree. See our scholarships for rest of UK applicants.

EU students

£1,820 per year of study (for Sept 2014 entry). Fees for September 2015 will be confirmed by the Scottish Government in early 2015.

Overseas students (non-EU)

£12,950 per year of study. See our scholarships for international applicants.

Not specified Start date September 2015 This Course starts in September Duration full-time 48 months Languages Take an IELTS test

English

Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time

Course Content

This course is taught by the Accounting & Finance team, based in the School of Business.

Your degree will include a good grounding in professional knowledge and skills. It will give you exposure to many of the latest developments in business, management and organisational research to which Dundee's staff make a major contribution. The optional modules available in Levels 3 and 4 allow specialist business management areas to be studied in greater depth.

You do not need any prior knowledge of business or management to be accepted. Both business management degrees follow the same curriculum at Level 1; however, the BSc Business Management (Accounting & Finance) is structured for students who are more numerically confident, and the modules reflect this.

What you will Study - BSc Business Management

Honours Degree

An honours degree normally takes four years, full time, you study levels 1-4, as described below.

Advanced Entry Honours Degree

It is possible to study for most of our honours degrees in 3 years if you have the required grades and subjects as listed in the Entry Requirements section. There are definite advantages to considering this route as the time needed to study is reduced by one year which enables you to start working and earning earlier.

Typical Degree Programme

Level 1

International Business Environment - introduces to the relationship between firms and their immediate environment, as well as discussing aspects of managerial theory and material relating to personal financial planning.
Foundations of Economics Analysis - introduces students to the tools needed to analyse how an economy works. It helps students to understand consumer choice, how prices are set, the way firms and markets operate, whether monopoly is efficient, why governments might choose to regulate industry or provide services such as health and education. Issues such as the determination of national income are examined along with policy options available to governments to reduce unemployment and inflation.
Business Statistics - This module introduces statistical methods such as probability theory and regression analysis, as well as other quantitative techniques relevant to modern business activity.
Business Information Systems - This module provides hands-on experience of the modern software applications relevant to accounting and business as well as introducing students to some of the theoretical concepts relevant to the processing of information in large organisations.
Introductory Financial Accounting - This module introduces students to the basic concepts of accounting practices, including book-keeping and the production of external financial reports.
Introductory Management Accounting - This module introduces students to the foundations of costing and accounting for planning and control.

Because the 1st year of our Business Management, Business Management (Accounting and Finance) and Bachelor in accounting degrees are identical, students on either of the BSc Business Management degrees can, if they wish, transfer into another degree in the School after successful completion of Level 1.

Level 2

The Level 2 modules are designed to build on and develop the theoretical and practical material covered at Level 1.

Intermediate Financial Management - This module builds on level 1 material by introducing students to techniques used in practice to appraise financial and capital investments as well as discussing working capital management and long-term fund raising.
Financial Decision Analysis - This module introduces students to the modern techniques used in financial decision analysis, including linear programming, queuing and inventory modelling.
Business Law - This module focuses on the main legal principles that affect firms' commercial activities by covering aspects of modern contract and company law as well as relevant aspects of delict, agency and commercial law.
Management Concepts in Context - This module explores the development and application of management and organisational theories over time with the aim of enhancing students' appreciation of business management and organisational knowledge and skills needed for practice. Explores the development and application of management and organisational theories over time with the aim of enhancing students' business management and organisational knowledge and skills needed for practice.
Management and Information Systems - This module builds on some of the material from level 1 by discussing contemporary management theory and case studies as well as developing information technology skills and systems theory. Provides a sound framework for understanding information systems in general, and management and accounting information systems in particular, to enable students to become informed users, providers and managers of information.
Business Management Internship Module - This module provides students with meaningful work experience through an Internship Placement whilst also developing project management, report writing and a range of career management skills including CV writing, interview performance and presentation training.

Level 3

Performance in the first two Levels helps determine whether students are offered the chance to study for the Honours version of the degree (awarded after four years) or the non-Honours version (awarded after three years). Students taking the non-Honours version of the degree take 120 credits at Level 3, most of which build directly on those taken at earlier levels. Honours students take 240 credits over Levels 3 and 4, with 60 credits being selected from a wide range of degree-appropriate subjects.

Strategic Management and Policy - This module explores the practical applications, implications of the principles, concepts, theories and frameworks of strategic management in order to obtain an insight into why strategy and business policy is important for organisations.
Research Methods in Business Management - This module aims at developing understanding of the methodologies and methods appropriate to conducting research in Business Management and develops the student's ability to write a robust dissertation research proposal.
*Managing Human Resources - This module addresses issues in human resource management such as recruitment and selection, human resource development, performance appraisal and rewards management. The problems for the firm are placed within the wider context of the firm's overall objectives and strategy, and links are developed between this and wider issues of labour economics.
Advanced Financial Management - This module introduces students to modern theories of corporate financial management and further development of analytical techniques in financial management that were previously introduced. It covers topics such as dividend theory, capital structure, asset pricing at the efficient market hypothesis.
Introduction to Marketing - This module introduces students to the principles of marketing and provides the opportunity to gain a practical understanding of modern marketing methods. Through the extensive use of case studies, the module examines the history of marketing, consumer behaviour, the nature of the marketplace and the key elements of the marketing mix.

*Students who are interested in the BSc Business Management (Honours) Degree with Languages specialism, may substitute a language (French, Spanish or German) for the Managing Human Resources module. This specialism implies that one of the 4th year modules must also be a language.

Level 4

Change Management - This module develops in students a critical appreciation of the processes associated with change as it operates at the societal, organisational and individual employee levels, and the complex challenges they pose to the successful management of organisations and those responsible for such tasks.
Managing Human Rights - This module aims at developing students' critically engaged understanding of ethics and Human Rights Issues within Social and Business contexts, both nationally and internationally.

Plus three options:

Issues in Management Accounting Research This module will introduce students to a number of the key research foci within the management accounting sub-discipline, and how these are best understood by embracing an interdisciplinary perspective rather than the more familiar technical emphasis of accounting practice.
Dissertation - This module aims to show students how research is undertaken and written up in a dissertation style. It provides students who are considering postgraduate study with a platform upon which masters and doctoral work can be based. It also provides an opportunity for greater self-direction and motivation, and for students to author a substantial piece of structured work.
Advanced Management and Information Systems - This module builds on the student's understanding of Management Accounting principles such as the use of internal accounting information in planning, control and decision making processes. It also emphasises on the competencies required for professional management accounting examinations, emerging roles of accountants and provides practical applications of some of the theoretical issues in management accounting.
Social & Environmental Accounting & Reporting - Taking a critical engaged and socially aware perspective, this module provides a theoretical foundation for understanding developments in social and environmental accounting, auditing and reporting, extending beyond the discipline of accounting to encompass the wider frameworks of business and management.
Security Analysis and Portfolio Management - This module explores the range of techniques and models that are used by investors in analysing both security and portfolio performance, to further develop students' understanding of security analysis and portfolio management and to introduce students to both the theoretical and the applied literature which investigates how securities should be priced and how investors appraise securities in practice.
Financial Management Theory This module outlines some of the most advanced theories of financial management and critically scrutinise the views of leading exponents in this field. The module aims to further develop students understanding of topics covered in the Level 3 Advanced Financial Management course by examining the material in greater depth, paying special attention to modern theories of corporate finance. Students will also be introduced to a number of new topics in the area of corporate finance. Students will be directed and encouraged to undertake independent reading of the related literature.
1 language from French, German, Spanish (if taken a language in 3rd year)

How you will be assessed

Assessment is by a mixture of coursework (for example, an essay), computer labs, projects based on group assignments and exams. The weightings allocated to assess coursework and the final examinations vary from module to module.

Requirements

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Work Experience

No work experience is required.

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Related Scholarships*

Academic Excellence Scholarship
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
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Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
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Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

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