Identify the key skills areas that will be needed during your study and potentially in the world of employment; understand how to use available information resources and to incorporate them into your work; assess how to manage time effectively to set priorities, meet deadlines and avoid stress; develop the tools to communicate effective numerical and verbal information; and understand the role of numerical data in business and how to analyse and present that data.

Module Description

This module aims to:

Provide students with experience of basic quantitative techniques and skills; and

Give students confidence in communicating numerically as well as verbally using a range of media which are widely used in business (these domains are a feature of the general business and management benchmarks [1], in which "effective communication, oral and in writing" and "numeracy and quantitative skills including data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation" are part of graduate skills).

Module Content

Effective data searches
Business communication – internal and external
Effective presentations
Types of data, including primary & secondary discrete and continuous data
Diagrams, tables and histograms
Averages and measures of spread

[1] Subject benchmark statements General Business and Management.

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/honours/business.asp#6

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