General Management
The General Management course provides students with a broad introduction to the major functional areas of management which will be available as Finals options in Years 2 and 3. The course will begin by providing a consideration of the emergence of big business and understanding how to think about firms, technology, work organization and context. The course examines further topics, including Strategic Management, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, and Technology and Operations Management.
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Introductory Economics
Introductory Economics provides a general overview of the concepts and tools of economic analysis. It covers both microeconomics and macroeconomics and includes the mathematical techniques used in economics, mainly single algebra and calculus. The microeconomics part of the course covers the functioning of the market economy: the decisions of households who have wants and budget constraints; the behaviour of firm, who employ labour and capital and who choose their level of output; and the functioning of markets under competition and monopoly. The macroeconomics par of the course looks at the determination of national income and employment, monetary institution and the money supply, inflation, and the balance of payments and exchange rates, and macroeconomic policy.
For more information on this course, visit the website of the Department of Economics for this course:
http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/undergraduate
/intranet/overview_of_prelims_economics_courses
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Financial Management
The Financial Management course covers both Financial Reporting and Financial Analysis.
The topics that will be covered include:
- Analysis of company accounts;
- Management accounting, including cost behaviours, capital budgeting, budgetary planning and control;
- Discounting and net present value,
- Internal rates of return
- Measurement and evaluation of risk
- Capital asset pricing
- Investment appraisal
- Sources of funds
- Capital budgeting and implementation
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