SBUS41400 Improving Bus Profitability

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module will assist you to understand the financial consequences of commercial and all other business-related decisions. It will help you to interpret financial data in a strategic manner and to understand what lies behind the information. The module will cover the key aspects of strategic corporate finance that will allow for better decision-making based on business intelligence and analysis. You will be equipped to use this information to enhance business performance thus contributing even more effectively to business growth.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

• Be able to contribute to and develop business cases in financial terms
• Appreciate the key distinction between corporate profitability and cashflow and the consequent implications for long- term value creation
• Understand the linkages between managerial decision making and corporate financial performance (including reference to discounted cashflow analysis and economic profit)
• Identify and decide on the optimal mix of long-term financing options, conditional on the risk profile of the company, its stage in the industry life cycle, its degree of operational gearing, and other important factors
• Understand the principles associated with short- term and long- term financial planning and the factors driving the magnitude of funding required to finance company operations
• Understand the importance of actively managing a firm’s operating cash cycle in a cash constrained environment

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

16
Specified Learning Activities

60
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

116
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module has a detailed study guide. Students are required to complete the module pre-reading or pre-work prior to attending the seminar sessions. The sessions themselves will be a combination of lectures, group discussion, in-class presentations, case study discussions and classroom exercises. A heavy emphasis in the seminars is on teasing out the implications of theory for practical application in a workplace context. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Journal: Individual post-module Learning Journal Unspecified n/a Graded No

50
Assignment: Individual post-module assignment Unspecified n/a Graded No

50

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written feedback to be provided within 20 days of assignment deadline.

Name Role
Ms Siobhan Lane Walsh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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