Bachelor of Science (BSc)

BSc Management

  • Duration: 3 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: N201 / Institution code: M20
  • Key features:
  • Study with a language
  • Scholarships available

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Fees and funding

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £31,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Additional expenses

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.

Policy on additional costs

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).

Scholarships/sponsorships

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.

These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.

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.

Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.

Course unit details:
Intermediate Management Accounting

Course unit fact file
Unit code BMAN21040A
Credit rating 20
Unit level Level 2
Teaching period(s) Full year
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

The course explores theoretical concepts, practice, design and broader issues of cost and management accounting. It examines the characteristics of costing systems and the use of cost information in management decision making, at both the operating and strategic levels. Topics covered include (in no particular order): cost behavior, cost accumulation and assigning costs, intermediate costing methods, strategic cost management, pricing intra-company transfers, pricing decisions and the role of costs, profit planning and the full process of preparing the master budget, flexible budgets and management by exception, beyond budgeting, case studies on costing, pricing and budgeting, pricing product design, product development and marketing, target cost analysis, reverse-income analysis, strategy and long-term allocation processes, intra-firm coordination and capital budgeting, performance management, segmental reporting and decentralization, the role of management accounting in facilitating value, and environmental management accounting. Issues relating to the behavioural, organisational and social aspects of cost and management accounting systems will be infused throughout delivery of the course.

Pre/co-requisites

Unit title Unit code Requirement type Description
Introductory Management Accounting BMAN10512 Pre-Requisite Compulsory
Fundamentals of Management Accounting BMAN10632 Pre-Requisite Compulsory
Fundamentals of Management Accounting M BMAN10632M Pre-Requisite Compulsory
BMAN21040 has pre-requisites of: BMAN10512 or BMAN10632 / 10632(M). Core for BSc Accounting & BSc ITMB (Accounting). Available to Mgt, IM, IMABS, IBFE & ITMB. Also taken by BAEcon & MathswFinancial Maths level 3 & 4.

Pre-requisite course units have to be passed by 40% or above at the first attempt unless a higher percentage is indicated within this course outline. If the pre-requisite unit is defined as a compulsory course unit within your programme of study (Maths with Finance, IBFE, Accounting, BA Econ pathways for example) then progression onto the dependent unit is permitted as long as you have gained the appropriate amount of credit to progress on to the following year of your registered undergraduate programme.

Pre-requisites:
BMAN10512 Introductory Management Accounting or
BMAN10632/10632(M) Fundamentals of Management Accounting

Co-requisites: None

Dependent course units: BMAN31040 Advanced Management Accounting
 

Aims

The course builds upon material introduced in BMAN10512 Introductory Management Accounting and BMAN10632/10632(M) Fundamentals of Management Accounting. The primary aim is to extend students' understanding of the theories, techniques and practices of management and cost accounting and how they apply in practice to inform decision making.  Particular emphasis is placed on issues in the design and use of management accounting and control systems in and between organizations.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of alternative concepts, tools, practices, roles and terminologies of cost and management accounting;
- Skilfully apply a number of calculative cost and management accounting techniques;
- Interpret, and critically appraise, the use of cost and management accounting techniques within their broader (organisational, environmental and managerial) contexts;
- Appreciate the numerous behavioural, organisational, political and social dimensions of cost and management accounting practice.

Syllabus

The course explores theoretical concepts, practices, design and broader issues of cost and management accounting.  It examines the characteristics of managerial accounting systems and the use of cost information in management decision making, at both the operating and strategic levels.  

Key themes developed in the course include:

• the importance of cost information and costing systems to the successful strategic management of organisations in a competitive business environment, 
• traditional and newer techniques for appraising and controlling resource allocation decisions,  
• issues concerning the choice of appropriate means of costing products and services,
• issues and problems of using accounting practices as devices of control within organisations and between organizations in a network, 
• the selection and use of managerial accounting techniques to support firms’ competitive advantage,  
• issues and techniques related to performance measurement.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures: 30 hours per year 
Workshops: 6 hours per year 
Private study: 164 hours per year (recommended minimum)

Total hours: 200 hours per year

1. Office Hours 2. Online Learning Activities (blogs, discussions, self-assessment questions)

Knowledge and understanding

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of alternative concepts, tools, practices, roles and terminologies of cost and management accounting. 

Intellectual skills

• Interpret, and critically appraise, the use of cost and management accounting techniques within their broader (organisational, environmental and managerial) contexts. 

Practical skills

• Skilfully apply key calculative cost and management accounting techniques.

Transferable skills and personal qualities

• Appreciate the behavioral, organisational and social dimensions affecting the design of managerial accounting and control systems within and between organizations.  

Employability skills

Other
In order to help you become more employable, the course seeks (where practical) to include one or more relevant guest lectures by practitioners. You will find the class examples reflective of contemporary accounting practice. Our aim is to help you to be able to demonstrate and communicate knowledge of contemporary management accounting practice.

Assessment methods

Examinations  

First examination (January exam period): 50% of total marks. 
Second examination (May-June exam period): 50% of total marks.  

Further information on the structure of the examinations, and guidance toward revision, will be provided by the course conveners during semesters 1 and 2.    

Semester 1 exchange students only (admitted via the Alliance Manchester Business School International Office that take this course as BMAN20671) are expected to sit the same semester 1 assessment as the rest of the cohort, worth 100% for 10 credits for semester 1.

 

Feedback methods

  • Informal advice and discussion during the lecture, consultation, and discussion sessions.
  • Responses to student emails and questions from a member of staff
  • A discussion forum is also available on blackboard to allow students the opportunity to ask questions or raise issues about the course content. This forum is monitored by the lead member of staff
  • A detailed summary of student performance will be posted on Blackboard for both the January and May/June examinations. This information will be provided once the formal examining and moderating processes have been completed.

Recommended reading

Seal, W., Rhode, C., Garrison, R. H., & Noreen, E. W. (2018). Management Accounting (6th Edition). McGraw –Hill, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 30
Practical classes & workshops 6
Independent study hours
Independent study 164

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Julian Jones Unit coordinator
Christos Begkos Unit coordinator

Additional notes

For Academic Year 2025/26

Updated: March 2025

Approved by: March UG Committee

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