Studying Research for Business and Management
Introduces research for business and management, from developing focused questions and evaluating sources to selecting appropriate methods and presenting evidence-based findings.
Recent and past courses, materials, and teaching highlights.
Recent courses grouped by term.
Introduces research for business and management, from developing focused questions and evaluating sources to selecting appropriate methods and presenting evidence-based findings.
Develops the quantitative skills needed to interpret financial information and economic indicators, assess business performance, and support decisions with data.
Explores how organisations operate through foundational concepts in business, management, and finance, with an emphasis on applying theory to practical business decisions.
Earlier courses grouped by course and term.
Introduces data analysis and visualisation for business, helping students interpret evidence, communicate insights, and make informed decisions using quantitative data.
Offered 2024 – 2025
Covers financial and management accounting for non-specialists, including financial statements, costs, budgets, and the use of accounting information in managerial decisions.
Offered 2024 – 2025
Applies statistical methods to finance and insurance, with a focus on modelling uncertainty, measuring risk, and analysing financial and actuarial data.
Offered 2023 – 2024
Develops the theory and application of estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and linear regression for analysing relationships in data.
Offered 2023 – 2024
Introduces the analysis and forecasting of time-dependent data, covering trend, seasonality, stationarity, autocorrelation, and ARIMA-type models.
Offered 2023 – 2024
Builds a foundation in probability, random variables, distributions, descriptive statistics, and introductory inference through practical problem-solving.
Offered 2023 – 2024
Examines how financial markets and institutions operate, why regulation is needed, and how policy addresses market failure, systemic risk, and financial stability.
Offered 2018 – 2021
Extends microeconomic analysis through intermediate theory and applied problem-solving, including strategic behaviour, market structure, and welfare.
Offered 2018 – 2021
Introduces consumer and producer behaviour, supply and demand, market equilibrium, and the welfare effects of markets and policy interventions.
Offered 2018 – 2021