Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

The primary goal of this module is to provide students, who have no or limited prior experience of business, with a solid foundation in the essential aspects of accounting and financial management. The aim is to offer an introduction to the key areas of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management with a focus on issues of particular relevance to managers in bio-technology and bio-process based businesses. The course will also emphasise the role and importance of accounting and financial management within the wider business (and in particular the process, bioprocess and biotechnology business) context.

Principal learning outcomes

Understand the role and importance of accounting and financial management within the general business context. Identify and evaluate the role of accounting in general business management and in particular situations;

Timetabled teaching activities

Module duration (weeks): 2 Lectures: 12 hours Seminars: 12 hours

Departmental link

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/study/pgt/taught/efsmodules/accounting/

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
10 CATS (Module code: LF911-10)
A (Assessed work only)	MCQ (1.5 hour)	20%
	Presentation	30%
	Individual Written Assignment (1500 words)	50%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

• Postgraduate Taught Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and Business Management (C5N2) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Medical Biotechnology and Business Management (J7N2) - Year 1

Optional Core

• Postgraduate Taught Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate (D4A1) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Taught Sustainable Crop Production: Agronomy for the 21st Century (D4A2) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Taught Food Security (D4A3) - Year 1

Optional

N/A