MAR2116 : Introduction to Business Management
- Offered for Year: 2019/20
- Module Leader(s): Dr Ana Mesbahi
- Owning School: Engineering
- Teaching Location: Singapore
Semesters
Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
ECTS Credits: | 5.0 |
Aims
A1. To equip students with a basic knowledge of financial accounting, management accounting, finance and business law
A2. To ensure students understand the functions of their roles in businesses.
Outline Of Syllabus
1. Company law: types of business, shareholders, directors, memorandum and articles of association
2. Contract law: law of contract including sale of goods, law of negligence including product liability, dispute resolution in the UK and Singapore
3. Costing, management accounting and cash flow: costing concepts, direct and indirect costs, break-even analysis, cost budgets, components of cash flow, managing cash and working capital
4. Sources of capital, investment appraisal: equity, loan capital, banks and institutions, gearing, investment measures, capital investment, discounted cash flow
5. Financial accounting and company reporting: profit and loss, balance sheet, assets and liabilities, shareholders' funds, double entry, funds flow, directors' and auditors' reports, going concern concept, relevance, historical cost and reliability concepts.
6. Financial analysis - reading of financials of a listed company.
Teaching Methods
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
Teaching Activities
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 12 | 2:00 | 24:00 | Including tutorials |
Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 12:00 | 12:00 | Examination Revision |
Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 1:30 | 1:30 | Examination |
Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 12:00 | 12:00 | Preparation of revision material and practicing past examination papers |
Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 50:30 | 50:30 | Consolidating lecture notes and further reading |
Total | 100:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Lectures and assignments support the students' self-study in reading around the lecture material to achieve the intended knowledge outcomes (IKO1 - 5) and the associated skills (ISO1 - 5).
Assessment Methods
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Exams
Description | Length | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Written Examination | 90 | 1 | A | 100 | N/A |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
The examination will require students to demonstrate factual knowledge of the whole syllabus.
The Graduate Skills Framework entries indicated as 'A' are also assessed in this way.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- MAR2116's Timetable