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

Other Business and Management courses

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