BSc Management (Accounting and Finance)

The course provides you with a step-by-step guide to starting and running your own venture by answering the questions many fresh entrepreneurs face, including but not limited to:

 

• How to develop ideas and start a venture?

• How to define and reach your target market?

• How to grow your business in the long term?

• Where to find funding for entrepreneuri

Students must be registered on Management, IM or ITMB Undergraduate programmes.

The course aims to give the students an applied understanding of modern entrepreneurial practices and teach them to make informed decisions when running their own businesses. Academic literature will be combined with case studies and practical examples to enhance students’ understanding of entrepreneurship. 

 

By the end of this module students will:

Develop knowledge of the role of individual and corporate entrepreneurship, types of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial practices, business models, growth strategies, risks, the role of finance.

Learn how to formulate business ideas and pitch them to potential investors.

Collect and critically analyse industry data to identify and pursue viable business opportunities.

Apply a rich toolset of theoretical frameworks to make strategic decisions for their ventures.

Lecture hours:  18 hours - 1 x 2hr lecture for 9 weeks
Seminar hours:  13.5 hours - 1 x 1.5hr seminar for 9 weeks
Presentations: 4 hours - 2 x 2hr lecture for 1 week
Total contact hours:  35.5 hours
Private study:  164.5 hours
Total study hours: 200 hours 

Individual written assignment - 2000 words - 60%

Group presentation (including peer assessment via BuddyCheck) - 10 minutes - 40%

• Informal advice, discussion and feedback during lectures, seminars and office hours.
• Responses to questions and requests for feedback from students by email.
• Specific course related feedback sessions, including feedback on assignments.
 

Burns, P. (2016). Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edition, ISBN-13: 978-1137430359.

 

Tuition fees for home students will be £10,050 for the 2027/28 academic year. In England and Wales, tuition fees for home undergraduate students are subject to the Government fee cap, which the Government has announced will be £10,050 for the 2027/28 academic year.

Government policy is to increase the fee cap on an annual basis to reflect inflation (i.e. increasing costs), and the tuition fee home students pay in subsequent academic years will reflect any increases in the Government fee cap (which we will communicate to you as soon as we can in advance of the relevant academic year).

Tuition fees for international students will be £35,300 for the 2027/28 academic year. For subsequent academic years, the University reserves the right to increase the tuition fee by up to 7% each year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our education and wider student experience.

For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

We know that student finance can be complicated. The links below provide further information to help guide you.

Learn more about student finance options for UK students.

Learn more about fees and finance for international students.

As an international student you may be eligible for our Global Futures Scholarships . This is open to students starting their studies in September 2027.