Socially Responsible Business

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Practical implications of responsible business practices.
• Core corporate finance theories and their evolvement to adapt towards a dynamic business ecosystem;
• Different strategies needed to shape responsible business practices;
• Fundamentals of socially responsible and sustainable business practices for current and future corporate settings;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate high level of oral and written communication skills by analysing issues related to responsible and sustainable business topics achieved via discussions, assignments, presentations and exams.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the practical relevance of sustainable business practices.
• Critically evaluate the alternative theories of corporate finance and their relation to sustainable business practices;
• Evaluate and discuss responsible and sustainable business practices;
• Explore methods to quantify and assess socially responsible businesses;
• Assess the long-term value and impact of responsible business practices on shareholders and stakeholders;

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.