Exam

1 - Written exam - 65

Group presentation

2 - Oral assessment and presentation - 35

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Accounting and Financial Reporting 
The content, application and analysis of published financial reports. 
<ul><li>Main accounting statements </li><li>Transaction analysis and preparing basic financial statements </li><li>Accounting for assets and sources of finance </li><li>Cash flow statements </li><li>Financial statement analysis </li></ul>
Organisational Behaviour 
<ul><li>Decision making and ethics </li><li>Culture  </li><li>Change management </li><li>Power and politics </li><li>Leadership </li></ul>
Strategy 
<ul><li>Designing Strategy </li><li>Strategic Positioning </li><li>Resources &amp; Capabilities Perspectives </li><li>Strategic Leadership </li><li>Strategy Formation Process </li><li>Strategic Change </li><li>Innovative Strategies </li><li>Strategy Synthesis </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Good strategy/bad strategy: The difference and why it matters.

Organizational behaviour.

A very short fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership

(SWSF) (Cengage, South-Western, 14th ed.). 
This book is a bit more advanced than Weetman, and Harrison and Horngren but it contains a lot of examples. It is based on US GAAP.

Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses,

Pearson Publishing

This is another introductory book that covers much of the early course material at a basic level. It is based on IFRS. 

Financial Accounting: An Introduction

Pearson Higher Education/Prentice Hall, London

This book provides a systematic, yet simple, description of various accounting topics. It contains many real-life illustrations. It is based on IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). This textbook is available online via the Library – please see the Moodle webpage for further details. 

International Reporting Standards

Wiley.
This is a practitioner oriented book, written in an informal style.

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs out of the Numbers.

What is Strategy?

A very short fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organizations

Contemporary Strategy Analysis

MBM253 - Leadership, Strategy & Organisational Dynamics

MBM253-PRD1-PER-ALV1

The module consists of a series of two-hour lecture sessions over four weeks.  Within these lectures we will cover a variety of topics.  To develop each topic, we will learn the relevant theory and experiment with its applications. We will look at “textbook” cases as well as cases of real companies, financial news and any other relevant information. 
Learning in this module occurs to a great extent through case discussion. Hence, it is crucial that you come to class well prepared. You will be notified of what needs to be done to prepare for in-class discussion weekly and we will work under the assumption that the preparation has been done to a high standard. Ultimately, you are responsible of your own learning and ensuring that you make the most of the course by preparing the assigned readings, cases and materials prior to class. 
Preparation for the lectures/discussion sessions may involve one or more of the following activities: 
<ul>
<li>Reading assigned materials and answering questions raised in these materials, </li>
<li>Working through cases or problem sets. </li>
<li>Reading the financial press. </li>
</ul>
Since developing expertise in financial accounting requires a significant amount of practice, we will also set some problems for self-study; these practice exercises are not meant to be handed in and will not be graded (but the solutions will be posted on Moodle).  Similarly for Leadership and Organisational Behaviour you will be encouraged to engage in personal reflection and interpretation outside of class.

Leadership, Strategy & Organisational Dynamics

Show awareness of the ethical dimension of financial reporting decisions and confidence in handling financial, statistical and IT management information. 

Values and attitudes

Think critically about conventional management concepts and how you might manage your own department. 

Evaluate how financial reporting choices and discretion affect financial information. 

Knowledge

Distinguish and analyse different types of business strategy. Analyse industry and business environments.  

Navigate organisational power and politics. 

Skills

Critique the evolution of strategy as a field of theory and practice.  

Assess power and political dynamics in organisations and provide a critical analysis of leadership. 

Discuss the foundations of competitive advantage.  

Explain individual and organisational decision-making biases. 

Carry out strategic, economic and case based analyses. 

Plan more effective culture change programmes. 

Demonstrate holistic perspective of the tasks confronting top managers 

Convey financial, statistical and IT management information to a non-technical audience. 

Read and interpret financial statements. 

Reflect on the importance of adopting a critical approach to the use and analysis of financial, statistical and IT management information. 

Reflect meaningfully on ethical and personal challenges in a work context. 

Critically analyse financial statements to enable you to measure and identify the drivers of firm profitability. 

Broaden understanding of and capability for leadership. 

Develop awareness of and insights into diversity within management practice. 

Demonstrate an insight into the role of leadership in strategy formation.  

Show awareness of the total position of the firm and the job of top managers. 

Assess the impact of culture and the management of culture change processes. 

Overcome decision making biases and develop greater awareness of ethical challenges. 

Debate how firms develop key resources and capabilities.  

Demonstrate communication skills including report writing for specific audiences. 