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Undergraduate
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)
LAW
COMPANY LAW
Scope of company law; types of companies; memorandum of association; articles of association; capital of companies; share issue and ownership; transfer of shares; legal requirements for accounting records, published accounts; corporate borrowing; shareholders rights, directors duties, responsibilities and powers; misconduct; company officers; maladministration remedies; company contracts and documents; company insolvency and liquidation.
CRIMINAL LAW
Nature and content of criminal law; principles of criminal liability; offences against the person and property, inchoate offences and participation, strict liability, vicarious liability, corporate liability; provocation and diminished responsibility, parties to a criminal offence, conspiracy; offences against the state and public order; offences against the administration of justice; blasphemy and obscenity; incitement to racial hatred; public nuisance and breach of the peace, perjury and contempt of court; defences including insanity and self-defence.
EQUITY AND TRUSTS
The nature of equity and the application of its principles in practice; the concept of a trust; different types of trusts; purpose of trusts; beneficiaries' rights; creation and constitution of trusts; private trusts, management by and duties of trustees, accountability; breach of trust; remedies for breach; unincorporated associations; charitable trusts; trusts and the family home.
LAW PROJECT
Selection of a relevant topic in law appropriate for the project; setting objectives; planning and managing research; evaluation of published literature and cases; selection of methodology; relating conclusions to objectives; referencing cases and published materials; drawing up a bibliography; presentation techniques; ensuring logic and lucidity; avoiding plagiarism.
EMPLOYEE LAW AND RELATIONS
Scope of employee relations; impact of changing economic and social environment; employee relations processes; methods of mitigation and elimination of disputes at work; employment contracts, discrimination, unfair dismissal; role of trade union and collective bargaining; health and safety at work; breach of contract; influence of law including (European Law) on employment policy.
TORT
Nature and origin of tort; protected interests; tortious liability; trespass to the person (including harassment) also to goods and to land; negligence, duty of care, employers' liability; vicarious liability, product liability; private and public nuisance; the rule in Rylands vs Fletcher 1868; defamation; rights of privacy; misrepresentation and the link between tort and rules relating to company law, contract law, family law; conspiracy, unfair competition; effective defences; rules relating to limitation of action and remedies available.
EUROPEAN UNION
The module covers the main sources of EU law; the EU institutions; implementation and enforcement of EU law; the free movement of persons and goods and competition law.
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING
Role of accounting and use of financial information; main accounting reports such as profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, liquidity and cash flow accounts, measurement of profit; sources of financial information; regulatory framework; analysis and interpretation of accounts; use of accounting data for business planning, resource allocation, efficiency evaluation and financial controls; financial distress forecasts.
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Application of management accounting to management decision taking; cost structures of business operations; apportionment problems; break-even analysis; profit forecasting; investment appraisal; flexible budgeting and financial controls; resource allocation purposes and techniques; sources and costs of capital.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Double entry book keeping; recording transactions in the books of original entry; preparing and adjusting a trial balance; preparing and analysing financial statements for sole traders, partnerships and limited liability companies; understanding the users of financial statements; the regulatory authorities involved in the financial reporting process including government and the various accounting standard setters.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Making effective use of the internet and newspapers as a source of financial information; calculation of net present value and the internal rate of return; calculation of bond yields; the purpose of portfolio theory; understanding the role of financial markets and institutions resident within the financial districts of London.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING
Non-current assets including tangibles and intangibles; current assets and current liabilities; non-current liabilities; the statement of income; the balance sheet; the cash flow statement;group accounts; international accounting standards; associate companies.
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Cost classification, behaviour and purpose; material and labour costing; absorption costing; marginal costing and cost volume profit analysis; absorption costing and marginal costing compared in producing financial statements and management information; process costing; budgeting theory and preparation.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Financial institutions; the regulatory environment; financing and control of stock and trade debtors; payback, discounted payback, accounting rate of return, net present value and internal rate of return; equity, debt and hybrids; weighted average cost of capital; the dividend decision, special dividends and share buy backs.
FINANCIAL RESEARCH METHODS
Nature and purpose of business research; problems of identifying research methods; methods of writing a research proposal; features of literature review; planning a literature search; evaluating literature and identifying changes in emphasis; the critical review; the research design; different approaches to research; nature and scope of secondary data; sources of data and references; evaluation of secondary data; limits of secondary data; sampling for primary data; observation, interview, semi-structured and in depth interviews; collecting data by questionnaires; questionnaire design; presenting and analysing data; identifying trends and significant relationships; qualitative data and its reliability; methods of presenting a project report; structuring, referencing and bibliography.
CORPORATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Capital structure; business valuations; foreign exchange risk; interest rate risk; international investment appraisal; risk and control measures; acquisitions and mergers.
ADVANCED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Strategic management accounting; standard costing; methods of appraising managerial and divisional performance; the impact of performance measures on performance; the behavioural implications of budgeting; pricing and output decisions; cost plus pricing; target costing; activity based costing and management; the learning curve; the future role of the management accountant.
ADVANCED FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING
Inventories and long-term construction contracts; provisions contingent assets and contingent liabilities; financial assets and liabilities; leasing; taxation; analysis of financial reports; the regulatory framework; the ethical and cultural dimensions.
Postgraduate
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
The purposes of accounting; the uses of accounting information; the role of the financial
accountant and the management accountant; the nature of financial information; company
financial statements; the use of financial statements for management decisions; nature and
techniques of financial controls; investment appraisal; raising finance; allocation of resources;
use of working capital.
CORPORATE FINANCE
Nature of corporate finance; external sources of capital; relationship between corporate,
strategic and operational objectives and the choice of methods of raising finance; measuring
the cost effectiveness of raising finance for expansion and development; risk and uncertainty in
using alternative sources of finance; nature of capital market for outside finance; control of
capital costs; discounted cash flow as a measure of investment efficiency; methods of
measuring corporate capital value; working capital turnover; expansion through diversification
and acquisition; dividend policy.
FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Financial statements of limited companies: balance sheet, profit and loss account, cash flow
analysis, business performance analysis; ratio analysis; cash flow statements; cost analysis,
break-even, marginal costs, cost allocation; cost management; financial decision making;
budgeting; financial forecasting; debtors and credit management; strategic financial reporting
and strategic management accounting.
Airline, Travel & Tourism
- Galileo GDS
- Virgin Atlantic Fares and Ticketing
- Tourism Management.
Applications and CVs by e-mail to:
Bridgette Pollard
Director of Learning and Teaching
bridgette@greenwich-college.ac.uk
Greenwich School of Management
Meridian House
Royal Hill
Greenwich
London SE10 8RD
020 8516 7800
www.greenwich-college.ac.uk
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