2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LLLC1360 Business Finance

20 Credits Class Size: 35

Module manager: David Gilding
Email: d.gilding@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Mutually Exclusive

LUBS1245 Introductory Management Accounting

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

To enable students to:
Develop their understanding of aspects of financial and management accounting.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of :
- Double entry bookkeeping
- Budgetary control
- Investment appraisal
- Relevant costing

Skills outcomes

Ability to :
- Enter financial transactions into ledger accounts and extract a trial balance
- Correct errors in the accounting system
- Apply investment appraisal techniques
- Construct budgets

Syllabus

Consideration of theory and practice in relation to :
- Double entry bookkeeping
- Budgetary control
- Investment appraisal
- Relevant costing

Teaching Methods

Delivery type Number Length hours Student hours
Workshop 11 2 22
Seminar 5 1 5
Private study hours 173
Total Contact hours 27
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) 200

Private study

Reading 80 hours
Critical reflection on practice 33 hours
Seminar preparation 20 hours
Examination preparation 40 hours
TOTAL 173

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Through regular workshops, monitoring of student contributions, formative feedback and the staged submission of coursework

Methods of Assessment

Coursework
Assessment type Notes % of formal assessment
In-course Assessment 2 hour in-course exam 50
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) 50

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams
Exam type Exam duration % of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) 2.0 Hrs Mins 50
Total percentage (Assessment Exams) 50

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading List

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 4/29/2024

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