​​​​This course is designed to present an understanding of accounting information systems and their role in the accounting environment. Particular attention is paid to transaction cycles and internal control structure. The three broad aims of the course are to provide students with:  

1. an understanding of the purpose and role of accounting information systems within contemporary organisations. 
2. an awareness of the way in which internal controls and technology interrelate with accounting information systems.

an understanding of the real-life problems of designing, implementing and using accounting information systems and its sub-cycles.

A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Explain what an accounting information system is and describe the basic function it performs. 

A2: Demonstrate understanding of the role and importance of accounting information systems in the various types of business and other organisations.

A3. Identify information system documentation techniques and their use to understand, evaluate, and document an accounting information systems.

A4. Explain the difference between database and file-based systems.

A5: Discuss the relational database systems and informatively analyse and interpret accountant’s role of database systems development.

A6: Describe the basic business activities and related data processing operations performed in the accounting cycles. 

A7: Identify and explain control procedures. 

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B. Cognitive skills

B1: Review and illustrate the purpose, context and functions of accounting information systems in business practices.

B2: Critically assess the impact and effective use of information systems in organisations for competitive advantage.

B3: Explain, analyse and apply the mechanism of system documentation techniques in the accounting cycle.

B4. Compare approaches to AIS including Enterprise Information, Enterprise Resource Planning, etc.

B5- Formulate a vision of the future and explain the evolving importance of AIS and Internal Controls due to the guidance and direction of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) pronouncements.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Prepare system documentation, and use data flow diagrams and flowcharts to understand, evaluate, and document information systems.

C2: Design, implement, and effectively use relational database systems using MS-Access ​

D. Key transferable skills.

D1: Crucial participating in systems analysis and design.

​​​​This is an AOU based course. The goals of the providers of information may run somewhat counter to those of the users of information. Accordingly there is recognition of the social need for independent public accountants-individuals of professional competence and integrity who can tell us whether the information that we use constitutes a fair picture of what is really going on.
On successful completion of BS312 course, students should be able to: 1) Determine an understanding of Certified Public Accountants, Professional standards, and Fundamental audit concepts. 2) Apply a range of audit procedures. 3) Apply auditing standards. 4) Demonstrate an understanding of the legal context within which auditing occurs.​

​​​​The academic aims of this module is to introduce you to the main functions and management of

a retail business and the key issues associated with understanding retail trading and retail

environments. After studying the course, you should be able to:

• Explain relevant theories and concepts of retailing
• Describe the key elements of a retail business and the retail trading environment
• Discuss issues associated with operating a business in a retail environment/context
• Outline the key course topics and explain why each topic is important to understanding the principles of retail management
• Explain linkages between components of the course
• Organise your studies, including paper-based and computer-based services

Continue to develop your awareness of how you learn and how different elements of the course applied to your individual learning style.

​A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: retail technology, which focuses on the virtual world of e-retailing;

A2: the diversity of retail products and sectors;

A3: retail ethics and the environmental impact;

A4: the implications of globalisation

B. Cognitive skills

B1: Reflection and critical engagement into both domestic retail technology and e-retailing

B2: Critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis

B3: Valuation and comparison of retail management.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Time management, skills appropriate to business, such as creativity, persuasion and attractiveness.

C2: Study skills, learning to learn and reflecting on students’ own development as learners.

C3: The ability to analyse work-related cases and situations to identify challenges for organisations in developing responses in relation to their environments.

C4: The application of course ideas to students’ own interactions with organisations and life experiences.

D Key transferable skills

D1: Decision making and problem solving making a viable approach to students to engage with data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation.

D2: Immerse in related information, arguments and ideas.

D3: Identify some of the key strengths and needs of their own learning and identify opportunities to address these.​ 

By the end of this course you’ll have developed a new, more theoretical understanding of how and why managers do what they do in organisations. You’ll build a toolkit of management concepts, theories and models that you can use to tackle workplace issues. You’ll also feel more confident in embarking on further undergraduate study.​

​A. Knowledge and understanding

A1. Demonstrated how learning they have undertaken previously in the workplace can be utilised to inform the development of their management practice

A2. Selected and used a range of management theories, concepts and ideas to help identify, analyse and address issues and situations in their current practice setting.

A3. Worked in collaboration with others in assessing the applicability of selected management theories, etc. to their own and others’ identified practice problems.

A4. Reflected on the impact of their learning on their practice of management, and their future development as a management practitioner.

B. Cognitive skills

B1. Identify and draw upon appropriate forms of prior learning relating to the development of their management practice.

B2. Apply relevant theoretical knowledge of management to a practical problem.

B3. Collaborate with peers’ practitioners to, and begin to, critically evaluate the applicability of selected management theories etc.

B4. Reflect productively on the development of their practice of management.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1. Communicate their understanding of management theory and its application to practice in writing.

C2. Work independently on identifying issues and situations in the workplace and apply academic theories and concepts to these to gain a deeper understanding of them.

D. Key transferable skills.

D1. Use of a range of tools and websites for finding and recording information online: internet browsers, search engines, copy/ paste, e-portfolios and download functions

​A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Awareness and understanding of the role of accounting in business and other organisations and of its theory, principles, concepts, practices, techniques, ethics, limitations, and techniques central to bookkeeping and accounting.

A2: Demonstrate the ability to prepare financial statements based on application of accounting concepts, regulations and principles.

A3: Demonstrate understanding of the types of costs and how they behave in order to calculate cost-volume-profit relationships,

A4: Demonstrate understanding of management's decision-making process as it relates to product pricing, production, adding and dropping, etc.

A5: Demonstrate understanding of the types of budgets and be able to prepare operating budgets, financial budgets and capital budgets.

A6: Demonstrate understanding of the responsibility centers and balanced scorecard.

B. Cognitive skills

B1: Review and illustrate the purpose, context and environmental influences and constraints on financial accounting and business practices.

B2: Explain the balance sheet equation, the basic financial statements and the information conveyed in each of the statements.

B3: Explain the steps in the accounting cycle for service and merchandising companies.

B4: Explain the relevant factors in making different decisions.

B5: Explain methods that don't use present value versus those that do use present value

B6: Explain the features of responsibility reports and differentiate between cost centres, profit centres and investment centres.

C. Practical and professional skills​

C1: Record transactions and events, and maintain accounting records as required for bookkeeping and accounting.

C2: Prepare basic financial statements based upon Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

C3: Develop the general practical and professional skills of management accounting that can be used for personal and career goals.

D Key transferable skills 

D1: Use simple mathematics for the purpose of calculations in bookkeeping, accounting and preparing/analysing financial statements, including basic ratio analysis.

D2: Compare critically and use different approaches to issues and problems within management accounting.

D3: Communicate management accounting information effectively and appropriately.​

D4: Use fundamental business mathematics and other quantitative methods effectively and appropriately.

​​​​​B205A academic aim is to introduce students to number of fundamental concepts and theories of entrepreneurial innovation. It also re-apply some generic business and management concepts in an entrepreneurial and innovation-related concept, with the aim of providing the necessary foundations for interested students to progress to a more in-depth study of specialist topics within this subject area during their level 3 studies. 

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

D. Key transferable skills 

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills 

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D. Key transferable skills 

​​​This module is designed to provide intermediate conceptual and practical learning to students in operations management, marketing and human resource management. ​

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

D. Key transferable skills 

​​​​​This module is designed to provide intermediate conceptual and practical learning to students in operations management, marketing and human resource management. ​

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

D. Key transferable skills 

​​​This is the course for students if they want a route into the accountancy profession or need to gain fundamental accounting skills for a management or other role. Students will gain an understanding of how financial statements are prepared and develop the skills to prepare financial statements. Students will explore differences in financial accounting for different businesses, building an understanding of the frameworks underpinning accounting and audit practice.​

​A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Demonstrate understanding of the role and importance of accounting in the various types of business and other organisations.

A2: Demonstrate understanding of the accounting regulatory framework in the UK and EU as well as within the context of international financial and capital markets.

A3: Demonstrate understanding of the qualitative characteristics of financial accounting information, accounting concepts and principles.

A4: Demonstrate the ability to prepare financial statements based on application of accounting concepts, regulations and principles.

B. Cognitive skills

B1: Review and illustrate the purpose, context and environmental influences and constraints on financial accounting and business practices (Unit 1). B2: Explain, analyse and apply the mechanism of double-entry bookkeeping and the accounting cycle (Unit 2). B3: Identify, classify, measure and summarise the elements of financial statements applying accounting principles and concepts (Units 3 and 4). B4: Explain and interpret the purpose, form and content of the three main financial statements; income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement (Unit 5). B5: Explain and evaluate the need for ethics in the behaviour of accountants and the need for independent auditing in the reporting process of public and large enterprises (Unit 6). B6: Explain and review the relations between corporate governance, auditing and financing (Unit 7).

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Record transactions and events, and maintain accounting records manually and gain some familiarity with computerised accounting software (Units 3 and 4).

C2: Prepare periodic financial statements for sole traders, partnerships, non-profit organisations and single-entity private and public limited companies (Unit 5)

D. Key transferable skills.

B292 academic aim is to introduce students to number of fundamental concepts and theories of Management Accounting in order to guide managerial decision making by individuals and business units. It also develops the students’ knowledge of Management Accounting as well as skills in problem-solving, decision making relating to aspects of planning, costing, budgeting, evaluating. B292 also prepares students for advanced Management Accounting concepts. After studying the course, the students should be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of the nature of management and the role of management accounting in the management process.
• Demonstrate understanding of the different types of costs and the role of costs in decision making.
• Demonstrate understanding of how inventory is accounted for and managed within the organization, and the methods for calculating the cost of different types of products, processes and services.
• Demonstrate the ability to prepare budgets.
• Demonstrate understanding of the management and the influence of economic factors and economic analysis on management decision making.

A. Knowledge and understanding

A1 : Demonstrate Understanding of the nature of management and the role of management accounting in the management process.

A2: Demonstrate the understanding of the different types of costs and the role of costs in decision making.

A3: Demonstrate understanding of how inventory is accounted for and managed within the organization and the methods for calculating the costs of different types of products , processes and services..

A4: Demonstrate the ability to prepare budgets.

B. Cognitive skills

B1. Understand the nature of organizations, the process of management and the role of information (including accounting information) in managing organizations. (Unit 1).

B2. Understand the nature of cost analysis for planning and decision making and be able to apply and explain the techniques covered. (Unit 2).

B3. Understand and explain the costing and accounting methods and    systems which provide the management of an organization with relevant and reliable information on which to base decisions. (Unit 3).

B4. Explain the budgetary process and illustrate in detail a method of preparing budgets for planning and control purposes. (Unit 4).

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Understand the use of marginal costs , cost volume –profit Analysis and contribution analysis in costing and price decisions.
C2:Calculate costs using the job , process and contract costing
      Methods , calculate the cost of a product or service from basic
      Information using batch and process costing.

C3:Prepare budgets and calculate the main variances used in
     Variance analysis.

C4:Be able to prepare accounting statements for planning and
      Control.

C5: Be able to prepare periodic reports

D. Key transferable skills.

D1:Demonstrate understanding of the nature & types of costs

D2: Calculate Break-even points in units and in turnover.

D3: The use of Activity based costing as a more exact method

In indirect cost allocation.

D4:Demonstrate ability to prepare different types of budgets​

D5: Work with qualitative & quantitative data drawing appropriate conclusions based on findings.​​

The aim of the course is fairly to provide students with ways if understanding and analysing different organisational, inter- organisational and international context and the ways in which such different contexts influence individuals’ experience of work. Secondly, the course aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of themes and challenges pertaining to organising and managing across this different context; managing aims, power, politics, trust, cultural diversity and the darker side of organising. The course embassies the relationships between theory and practice; putting emphasis on the theoretical underpinnings and debates surrounding the themes whilst at the same time requiring students to draw on their own experience. Achieving the intended learning outcomes (covering both knowledge and skills) fully supports this dual aim.​​

​A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Inter-organisational collaboration, organisational behaviour, and international management theories and concepts relevant to managing across organisational and cultural boundaries. 

A2: Themes and challenges pertaining to organizing and managing across intra, inter-organisational and international contexts including the management of aims, power, politics, trust, cultural diversity and the darker side of organising.

B. Cognitive skills

B1: Use conceptual frameworks to describe functions of organising and managing in and across organisational and international contexts.

B2: Identify and critically assess different perspectives on managing and organising.

B3: Synthesise, critically evaluate and challenge course relevant theories of inter-organisational collaboration, organisational behaviour, and international management.

B4: Critically evaluate theories in relation to personal experiences, organisational, inter-organisational and international setting with which you are familiar and the relative standpoints of others within different contexts.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Use and adopt relevant concepts and theories to practically engage with a range of problems and issues in the work place.

C2: Use specific inter-organisational collaboration, organisational behaviour, and international management knowledge, cognitive and key skills developed during the course to enhance individual work / practice.

D. Key transferable skills.​

 D1: Read and interpret information presented in a variety of forms including academic journals, books and on-line text.

D2: Articulate ideas and communicate effectively using appropriate interorganisational collaboration, organisational behaviour, and international management theories and concepts. D3: Identify and ask questions appropriate to the exploration and complex concepts. 

D4: Engage in reflective, experiential and collaborative learning in face to face and virtual context.​​

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A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

D. Key transferable skills 

1. To situate the role of strategic management accounting within the broader content of organizational and industry differences.
2. Understand management accounting techniques that play an important role in the formulation and implementation of business strategy.
3. Understand what strategies organizations use to finance their activities.
4. Students will be introduced to financial risk management and the strategic implications of financing the organization.
5. Be familiar with a range of contemporary cost management techniques. 
6. Able to evaluate strengths and weaknesses, discuss issues regarding implementation and effectiveness and assess various strategic options. Identify the main characteristics of different market types (perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly) and predict price and output outcomes.
   

A1 : Understand the role of strategic management accounting and apply a strategic analysis framework in simple complex settings.

A2 :Critically select , apply and evaluate management accounting techniques in strategic costing and pricing including value chain analysis , activity based costing and business process optimization approaches. 

A3: Understand, describe and evaluate the sources , costs and risks associated with the financing of investments.

A4: Apply and critically evaluate advanced techniques for investment appraisal.

A5: Explain, apply and evaluate methods of accounting control and performance evaluation for the purpose of improving strategic and operational performance of organizations.

B. Cognitive skills

B1: Develop the ability to integrate information and use reasoned approaches to select relevant information and analytical techniques in simple and complex settings.

B2: Compare critically and use different approaches to issues and problems within management accounting.

B3: Communicate management accounting information effectively and appropriately.

B4: Use information and communication technologies appropriately and effectively.

B5: Use fundamental business mathematics and other quantitative methods effectively and appropriately

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Apply digital technologies to analyse data using strategic management techniques, e.g spread sheets. 

C2: Frame problems in ambiguous settings independently .Identify and critically select appropriate information both from digital and print sources to address these. 

C3: Use a combination of electronic applications to communicate analysis and findings.

C4: Use tools and techniques of management accounting to  improve managerial decision making.

D. Key transferable skills.

D1: Provide students with knowledge and understanding of management accounting techniques that play an important role in in the formulation and implementation of business strategy.

D2: Examine two key areas of financial management of organizations and link them to the management accounting and strategic activities of organizations.

D3: Build on the material already studied by students on investment appraisal, adding theoretical depth and a critical evaluation of the techniques. 

​By the end of the course students will be enabled to critically reflect on and analyse workplace situations and their own ways of managing. It is ‘solution oriented’ to help students to not only understand work situations from a manager’s perspective, but also to help them to work out what to do, given that they may not be in charge of the organisation they work for. As they work through activities, problems and solutions, they will question the idea that there are single solutions or issues or that there is ‘one best way’. they will come to understand the constraints, choices and demands that operate and learn when to work within them and when and how they may be able to bring about change.​​

Module 1 : Managing

A1: the role and context of managerial work with particular reference to the development of own practice. 

A2: managerial skills ( including problem solving , decision making, information gathering treatment and presentation)

Module 2: 

A3: Key processes of people management, incorporating the recruitment and development of staff and the management and leadership of individuals, teams and change.

A4: Behavioural aspects of the management of leadership of individuals, teams and change.

 B. Cognitive skills

 B1:apply management concepts to work context.

B2: analyse and critically reflect on work practice and professional self knowledge.

B3: solve management problems through the use of the analytical skills including problem identification, analysis, logic, thinking and judgement to the advantage of one's own organization.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: Setting objectives for developing and implementing   Operational plans for the area of responsibility.

C2: Reviewing and evaluating performance and practice. 

C3: reflecting and questioning. 

C4: presenting and reporting information.

C5: problem solving, innovation and decision-making. 

C6: Managing business  processes.  

D. Key transferable skills.

D1: Use interpersonal skills including those involved in team working and collaborating.

D2: communicate effectively , using management vocabulary, both orally and in writing  and listen actively .

D3: Gather, handle , present and use information effectively; analyse and evaluate numerical data and information for specific purposes; use information technologies. 

D4: Demonstrate numeracy and literacy 

​​​​​B629- Managing 2: Marketing and Finance will cover core topics in Marketing and Finance.  Topics include; assessing the external environment, consumer relationship, market research, product/service analysis, price, promotion and delivery, quality, consumer expectations and satisfaction, financial planning and monitoring through budgets, cash flow, profit and loss.  All these topics will focus primarily on student’s own work situations and practices. The teaching and learning strategy of this module is problem-based. Through this approach, the module aims to develop the skills an effective manager needs: such as analysis, constructing sound arguments, critical and reflective thinking, problem identification and solving, active listening and communication, sourcing and presenting information, and report writing. The course is a management development vehicle that aims to help student perform more effectively as managers.  It does so by:

• Increasing student’s foundation management knowledge and competencies
• Providing a repertoire of theories, concepts, and techniques to apply in different management setting -Helping students understand their individual management role, its context and nature of their interventions in their organizations
• Encouraging student to be reflective practitioners, applying independent and inquisitive learning in the workplace
• Enabling students to understand the discourse of specialist and senior managers better, so that they can hold more confident and informed conversations with them, work more effectively with and where appropriate challenge them.

A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Client communications, relationships, the role of marketing information and the development of value.

A2: Marketing planning, service quality with particular reference to own practice.

A3: Understand how financial information can be used to support managerial decision making (i.e. the relevance of the generation and reporting of financial information)

A4: Understand the importance of costs costing and budgeting processes in managerial decisions A5: Have a good understanding of how business concepts relate to real life businesses, organizations

A6: Importance of performance management for organisations

 B. Cognitive skills

B1. Apply management concepts to work contexts

B2. Analyse and critically reflect on work practice and professional self-knowledge

B3. Solve management problems through the use of analytical skills including problem-identification, analysis, logic, critical thinking and judgment to the advantage of one’s own organization

B4. Communicate effectively, using management vocabulary, both orally and in writing and listen actively. Use interpersonal skills including those involved in team working and collaborating    

B5. Gather, handle, present and use information effectively; analyse and evaluate numerical data and information for specific purposes; use information technologies B6. Demonstrate numeracy and literacy and Learn how to learn with an emphasis on self-monitoring and progress towards independent learning B7. Critical thinking, analysis and synthesis.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1. Setting objectives for, developing and implementing operational plans for  area of responsibility 

C2. Reviewing and evaluating performance & practice

C3. Reflecting and questioning C4. Presenting and reporting information

C5. Problem-solving, innovation and decision-making by using tools and techniques and models C6. Apply key concepts  to managerial decision making the  Managing of  business processes​

D. Key transferable skills.

D1. Use interpersonal skills including those involved in team working and collaborating     

D2. Communicate effectively, using management vocabulary, both orally and in writing and listen actively

D3. Gather, handle, present and use information effectively; analyse and evaluate numerical data and information for specific purposes; use information technologies

D4. Demonstrate numeracy and literacy 

A. Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the module, learners will be expected to:

A1:  Understand performing various calculations that are relevant and mostly used in finance and accounting function of a business.

A2: Identify keys of financing and investment concepts like Annuity, Annual Percentage Yield, Rate of Return etc.

A3: Understand tools and techniques that are widely used in investment field by general investors and their relevance in making crucial financing and investment decisions.

A4: Describe the relevance of core financing and investment concepts that help corporates in making short-term and long-term business decisions. 

B. Cognitive skills

At the end of the module, learners will be expected to know:

C1: Reflect on skills needed to deal with numbers and interpret them according to the scenario given.

C2: Knowledge and techniques to use calculator to perform various calculations

.C3: Knowledge and skills to analyse given scenarios and recommend actions accordingly

​D Key transferable skills 

At the end of the module, learners will be expected to:

D1: Gain knowledge and skills to work independently as well as in a team meeting the expectations
D2: Acquire skills and knowledge on mathematical concepts and business calculations that have practical relevance in the business environment.

D3: Recognise variety of calculations and interpret those calculated values better that goes hand in hand with the scenario provided. 

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A. Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the module, learners will be expected to:

A1: Understand data collection methods, presenting data in tables and graphs, perform simple statistical analysis manually.

A2: Understand calculating statistical variables that are relevant for making certain decisions within an organization and interpreting those variables appropriately.  

A3: Explain how to make judgments in selecting and using the right technique for analysing the given data set/scenario and making inferences on the calculated values, so better conclusions on the given problems can be made.

A4: Identify specific problems faced by an organization and using appropriate techniques to analyse that problem well and establishing conclusions on the problems being studied. ​

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

At the end of the module, learners will be expected to:

C1: Manage to use various statistical techniques for exploring, summarising, presenting, analysing, and interpreting data.

C2: Reflect on quantitative concepts and models on the unstructured scenario given and analyse the scenario and suggest recommendations for solving an issue through statistical inferences

 D. Key transferable skills 

Upon completion of this module, learners will be expected to:

D1: Gain skills to effective performance in a team-based assignment with other team members with good inputs like data analysis and inferences.
D2: Acquire skills to deal with numbers and estimate appropriate solutions for a given problem based on statistical analysis performed.

D3: Effective communications, of information, arguments and ideas using language and styles appropriate for a business context and audience. 

​​​​The primary objective is to give the student an understanding of basic business principles. Global business, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, information technology, and financial management. Another purpose of this course is to build a foundation of knowledge on the different theoretical approaches to management and decision making • develop analytical skills to identify the links between the functional areas in management, organisations, management practices and the business environment.

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills​

D. Key transferable skills 

​​​​​The aim, of this module is to provide students with a well-grounded understanding of essential entrepreneurial business principals, and to develop an understanding of important business opportunities and issues as they relate to new ventures. The objectives of this course are to identify, appreciate, and assess the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of an entrepreneur and to study and observe entrepreneurial settings and entrepreneurial role models through exposure to actual business settings and experiences. Students will be encouraged to establish a level of confidence in creating a business plan as a tool to assess, create and communicate a business concept, and to have an expanded awareness of the resources available for creating a business plan.

A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

D. Key transferable skills 

​​​​​​​The aim of this course is to introduce learners to the internal and external elements of Microeconomics. The objectives of this module are to educate students to understand the domain of economics as a social theory and the main analytical tools which are used in economic analysis. Students will be encouraged to apply the principles and techniques for economic analysis and to develop their understanding of the organisational and policy implications and to participate in debates on economic matters.​

​A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills

​D. Key transferable skills 

​​​​​This module aims to provide students with the general study techniques, including reading actively, engaging with the argument of the text and taking notes, the ability to extract information from different sources, including numerical tables and graphs, handling evidence in support of arguments and making critical analyses of topics and of different views of them. 

​A. Knowledge and understanding

B. Cognitive skills

C. Practical and professional skills 

D. Key transferable skills 

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LB170’s design will be relevant for students from OUBS Openings to Level 2 courses.  Students’ confidence, performance and progression potentials will be enhanced and ultimately academic standards will be positively influenced as well as widening participation, retention and completion rates.   The emphasis in the course is on processes and practices (the ‘skills’) of communication rather than on content in a ‘traditional’ academic sense. As such the course reverses the balance present in other OUBS courses where communication skills are fore grounded but are always at the service of the course content and consequently occupy a less significant position in the learning outcomes.    The model of communication skill development outlined above is a positive rather than a deficit model. It draws on current thinking about literacy development in which a more traditional skills development model which treats communication as an all-purpose set of skills with universal application is overlain, firstly, with a model that places literacy in context and sees literacy practices as situated within particular spheres of activity (in this case, business, broadly, and business studies more specifically). Secondly it draws on a model that highlights the ideological and personal investment that come into play when individuals and organisations engage in communicative acts.​​

A. Knowledge and understanding

A1: Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and Phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.The internal and external factors affecting business organisations and their stakeholders.

A2: understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance in one’s major such as the operation and management of the HR function of a business organisation.

A3: Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. 

A4: Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. Such as the operation and management of the marketing function of a business organisation.

B. Cognitive skills

B1 After studying the course, the student will have developed the language they need to exercise the following thinking and communication skills and have developed a critical perspective on this language in the light of a range of alternative, available language and communication practices:

B2: recognize, compare and contrast different ways of analysing business case studies and other material about contemporary business practice.

B3: apply their knowledge in the analysis of practical business problems and issues.

B4: recognize, compare and contrast different interpretations of and approaches to practical business problems and issues.

C. Practical and professional skills

C1: analyse work-related cases and situations to identify problems in the organization and management of a functional area.

C2: identify and communicate potential solutions based on knowledge of theory and apply it to their own work situation. 

C3: related the communication skills needed for academic study to those needed in the workplace.

D. Key transferable skills.

D1: Read and précis written text materials for key salient points.

D2:  communicate effectively in writing, showing recognition of audience and purpose.

D3: select data, information and ideas from different sources and present in an appropriate fashion to support an argument.

• ​​To develop basic skills of “Learning"
• To know e-Learning: meaning, accessibility, skills, and resources
• To familiarize with the basic concepts of Information Technology: Internet, Web, and Systems
• To familiarize with basic computer system applications: software and hardware
• To learn some practical skills for using computers
• To introduce the concepts of: Security and Ethics​

​A. Knowledge and understanding

After studying the course, the student will be able to:

1. Understand terminologies related to IT and computer
2. Understand the different learning styles
3. Describe the difference between Conventional and blended-learning education systems
4. Understand how to read and take notes in the process of learning
5. Describe the social media types and facilities
6. Have a background about the Web and Internet inventions
7. Understand and explain what is information system and technology
8. Know the types of applications
9. Describe the e-commerce
10. Explain different part in computer system (Hardware such as system unite, input and output, memory and processor)
11. Explain different terms in communication such as network, connectivity, wireless, server, client)
12. Understand clearly what is the difference between privacy and security)
13. Describe what are computer ethics and computer crime 
    

After studying the course, the student will be able to:

1. Learn by himself
2. Deal with computer problems
3. Describe the difference between different learning styles
4. Describe the web and search engines
   

C. Practical and professional skills

To be able to

1. Operate the computer system properly
2. Interact with applications and programs such as (MS office) confidently
3. Communicate with others electronically (Email, instant messaging, blogs, micro-blogs and wikis)
4. Read analytically and critically for the purpose of learning
5. Avoid plagiarisms
6. Initiate a transaction electronically (e-commerce) in a secure way
7. Use the social media in the process of learning and communication with others.
8. Connect and surf the internet
9. Search using the search engines.
10. Send and receive email, and share files in a secure way.
11. Avoid computer crime
12. Use com​puter ethically​