Core modules 4 & 5

Accounting & Financial Reporting

Enables you to read and understand financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of changes in shareholders’ equity) as this is a fundamental skill for an effective manager in today’s business environment. Provides you with an understanding of the content, application and analysis of published financial reports and those prepared for internal management information purposes.

Learning outcomes:

• Accounting as an information system
• The main financial statements
• A basic framework for the analysis of published financial reports
• Financial information for management decision making.

Strategic Leadership

Strategic leadership is the perspective most often required of an Executive MBA graduate as they are professionals who can handle a business situation from a wide range of perspectives and not only from the viewpoint of one specialist discipline. The module is concerned with strategic decision-making and the long term successful direction of the organisation.

Learning outcomes:

• What is strategy? What strategy is not?
• Strategic decision making and strategic leadership
• Theories of Industry Evolution, Sources of Competitive Advantage, Positioning view of the Firm, Resource Based view of the Firm, Competencies and knowledge management, Organisation Forms.
• Data analysis and presenting argument learned through the exercises
• Linking strategy and execution.