BSc Business Accounting with Industrial/Professional Experience

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.

In recognition of students passing their first year of this prestigious but challenging programme, students will be awarded a scholarship in years 2-4. This scholarship will be £7,450 over years 2-4 (£2,483 per year). Both home and international students will be awarded the same amount of scholarship.

PwC's Flying Start Financial Bursary is aimed at supporting students with the day-to-day costs of University life. If you meet the bursary eligibility criteria and join the BSc (Hons) Business Accounting 'Flying Start' programme in autumn 2024, a £10,000 bursary will be awarded to you, split across the four years of the degree.  Read further details, including eligibility criteria.   

The  Manchester Bursary  is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England.

In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of  Social Responsibility Scholarships  to UK and international/EU students.

The School will also award a number of  International Stellar Scholarships  to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration

Please see our  scholarship pages  for full details.

The aims of this course are to:

• provide a self-contained introduction to microeconomics;
• introduce a range of microeconomic concepts and analytical tools

Intended Learning Outcomes

• ability to understand and make appropriate use of core microeconomic concepts such as revenue and cost, opportunity cost, elasticities, marginal and average values
• understanding of the role and limits of markets
• understanding of the relationship between modern “neoclassical” economics and “classical” schools of economic thought
• ability to analyse the behaviour of firms

ECON10171 & ECON10221 cannot be taken together

None, this unit assumes no Economics training. 

Cannot be taken with ECON10171.

 The aims of this course are to:

• provide a self-contained introduction to microeconomics;
• introduce a range of microeconomic concepts and analytical tools

Intended Learning Outcomes

• ability to understand and make appropriate use of core microeconomic concepts such as revenue and cost, opportunity cost, elasticities, marginal and average values
• understanding of the role and limits of markets
• understanding of the relationship between modern “neoclassical” economics and “classical” schools of economic thought
• ability to analyse the behaviour of firms

Provisional

1. The Capitalist Revolution

Capitalism, Growth, Demographic Transition

Core Reading: ‘The Economy’ Chapter 1      

2. Economic Models: Technological Change, Population & Growth

Malthus, the Industrial Revolution, Introduction to Economic Models, the Nature of Economics

Core Reading: ‘The Economy’ Chapter 2      

3. Classical Economic Thought

Smith, Ricardo, Marx

Core Reading: Notes provided by the lecturer.

4. The Marginal Revolution: Scarcity, Work And Choice

Preferences, Opportunity Costs, Decision-making and scarcity

Core Reading: ‘The Economy’ Chapter 3      

5. Social and Strategic Interactions

Conflict, Co-operation, Institutions, Norms and Behaviour

Core Reading: ‘The Economy’ Chapter 4      

6. The Price-Making Firm

Production, Costs, Revenue, Demand and its Elasticity, Competition & Market Power

Core Reading: 'The Economy' Chapter 7      

7. The PriceTaking Firm

Perfect Competition, Competitive Equilibrium Taxes.

Core Reading: 'The Economy' Chapter 8 & Chapter 11 [section 11.1 - 11.3]

8. Markets, Efficiency & Market failure

Market Failure. Pollution.

Core Reading: ‘The Economy’ Chapter 12

Synchronous activities (such as Lectures or Review and Q&A sessions, and tutorials), and guided self-study

Online Test  1, 22.5%

Online Test 2,  22.5%

Essay 55% - 1,200 words

Individual and group work in the tutorials, and feedback thereon.

Online practice tests on Blackboard

Online discussion and feedback (from peers and staff) 

 

The primary textbook for this course will be:

The CORE project (2017) The Economy. Economics for a Changing World. Oxford University Press.

See the e-book, and additional resources, at:  www.core-econ.org

For every 10 course unit credits we expect students to work for around 100 hours. This time generally includes any contact times (online or face to face, recorded and live), but also independent study, work for coursework, and group work. This amount is only a guidance and individual study time will vary.