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All modules in Business and Management

Choose from modules giving you a broad introduction to business and management, or focus on a particular subject ranging from accounting to strategy management.

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Business and Management modules

OU level 1

  1. An introduction to business and management
  2. Business data analytics and decision making
  3. Communication skills for business and management
  4. Discovering mathematics
  5. Fundamentals of accounting
  6. Introducing statistics
  7. Marketing essentials
  8. You and your money

OU level 2

  1. Developing leadership
  2. Entrepreneurship and innovation
  3. Shaping business opportunities
  4. Understanding customers
  5. Financial accounting in context
  6. Financial analysis and decision making

OU level 3

  1. Business management: financial accounting for non-financial roles
  2. Business management: fundamentals of management accounting
  3. Business management: improving organisational practice
  4. Business management: marketing principles and practice
  5. Business management: people management and leadership
  6. Business management: project management
  7. Climate change: transforming your organisation for sustainability
  8. Creating futures: sustainable enterprise and innovation
  9. Governance, audit and assurance
  10. IT systems: planning for success
  11. Leadership in a changing world
  12. Marketing in action
  13. Strategic management

Access modules

  1. Business and law Access module
  2. Science, technology and maths Access module
  3. Science, technology and maths Access module: fast track

Short courses

  1. Analytical thinking for problem solving
  2. Behavioural insights for the workplace
  3. Chinese business culture essentials
  4. Collaboration skills for the workplace
  5. Communication skills in the digital world
  6. Creating a successful and sustainable business
  7. Creative thinking for the workplace
  8. Data in digital transformation
  9. Design thinking in the digital world
  10. Developing a coaching culture
  11. Developing strategy to manage uncertainty
  12. Developing team leader skills
  13. Digital marketing analytics and measurement
  14. Digital marketing content creation
  15. Digital marketing strategy
  16. Digital transformation design thinking
  17. Digital transformation foundations
  18. Digital transformation performance
  19. Digital transformation readiness
  20. Effective communication strategies and skills for work
  21. Email marketing eCRM
  22. Evaluating financial performance
  23. Introduction to business and workplace coaching
  24. Introduction to digital marketing
  25. Introduction to digital transformation
  26. Leadership in the digital world
  27. Managing a budget
  28. Managing change in the digital world
  29. Managing uncertainty through monitoring and control
  30. Managing uncertainty through policy implementation
  31. Online display advertising
  32. Organisational behaviour in the workplace
  33. Search marketing
  34. Social media marketing
  35. Start your own business
  36. The impact of storytelling in business
  37. Understanding financial statements

Other Business and Management courses

  1. Business and Management Degrees
  2. Business and Management Diplomas
  3. Business and Management Certificates