Global Banking School is a leading HE provider of flexible learning to adult students and your course forms part of our largest validated partnership and Faculty. Your student and customer experience, both academic and welfare, is designed around you, allowing personalised and individual learning schedules to ensure you can combine successful study with your other family and working pattens. With pride, we aim to help you those from non-traditional backgrounds develop and flourish beyond expectations.

Dr Peter Heard
Provost

Welcome

Your welcome from Canterbury Christ Church University

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) is the awarding institution for BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management Business. This means that even though you are studying at Global Banking School (GBS), you are officially a student of Canterbury Christ Church University. It also means you must adhere to both institution’s terms and conditions.

All students need to register with both GBS and Canterbury Christ Church University at the start of each new year of study. More about registering with Canterbury Christ Church University.

During your studies, you will receive most of your support from GBS, and will provide the following:

  • Access to Moodle, your virtual learning environment, where all your course learning materials are held
  • Access to the library, which gives you access to thousands of e-books, e-journals and databases to help you in your studies
  • A Canterbury Christ Church University email address and computing account.
  • Access to MyRecord, Canterbury Christ Church University’s student portal, where you will:
  • register for each subsequent year of study
  • update contact details like your personal email & phone number
  • access your academic results.

Please ensure that both Canterbury Christ Church University and GBS Campus have your most up-to-date contact details. Once you are a registered student you can change your contact details, including your address(es), at any time in MyRecord.

More about studying at a Canterbury Christ Church University’s partner institution.

Your welcome from Global Banking School

We welcome all of you to your studies on this programme and are delighted you have begun the journey to attain your career goals with us at Global Banking School (GBS). GBS prides itself on the most direct support for its students to present the best learning for you all and wishes you every success towards your degree award. Please take every confidence in our commitment to your successful studies over the next four years.

Contact Details

GBS Main Contact Number 0208 092 9440
Admissions admissions@globalbanking.ac.uk
Student support

welfare@globalbanking.ac.uk

or 0203 787 4928
Student Finance Log your finance query here to GBS
Any IT queries studentITsupport@globalbanking.ac.uk
Moodle Team lrt@globalbanking.ac.uk
Central Records Team cccustudentrecords@globalbanking.ac.uk
Status Letters/CT Letters customerservice@globalbanking.ac.uk

DIRECT CAMPUS

Direct Email Contacts
CCCU Leeds ccculeeds@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Stratford (Cam Road/GEDU) cccustratford@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU London (Bow Rd) ccculondon@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Birmingham Fazeley cccubirmingham@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Manchester cccumanchester@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Birmingham Norfolk House cccunorfolkhouse@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Greenford cccugreenford@globalbanking.ac.uk

Getting started

  • Induction; includes, completing registration with CCCU and GBS
  • Getting to know the course content, introduction to all Modules
  • Getting to know the IT systems, facilities, timetables, staff etc.
  • Introducing all the support mechanism within GBS
  • Introducing roles and policies and understanding CCCU/GBS and students’ expectations

Pre-course reading

 

Books

  • Bedford, D. and Wilson, E. (2020) Study Skills for Foundation Degrees. 3rd edn. Oxford: Routledge.
  • Cottrell, S. (2019) The Study Skills Handbook. 5th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Dyson, J.R. and Franklin, E. (2020) Accounting for Non-Accounting Students. 10th edn. Harlow: Pearson.
  • Gallagher, K. (2016) Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford Press.
  • Godfrey, J. (2014) Reading and Making Notes. 2nd edn. London: Palgrave.
  • Ramsay, P., Price, G. and Maier, P. (2010) Study skills for business and management students. London: Pearson.
  • Sangster, A. and Gordon, L. (2021) Frank Wood's Business Accounting. 15th edn. Harlow: Pearson.
  • Sedgley, M. (2020) Skills for Business and Management. 1st edn. Bloomsbury: Red Globe Press.
  • Weetman, P. (2019) Financial Accounting: An Introduction. 8th edn. Harlow: Pearson.
  • Williams, K. and Carroll, J. (2009) Referencing and Understanding Plagiarism, (Pocket Study Skills). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Academic Journals

  • Dahal, R.K. (2019) ‘Changing role of Management Accounting in 21st Century’, Review of Public Administration and Management, 7(3), pp.1-8.
  • Gambhir, B. and Bhattacharjee, A. (2021), ‘Embracing the role of artificial intelligence in accounting and finance: contemplating the changing skillset expectations’, Development and Learning in Organizations, 36(1), pp. 17-20.
  • Gudi, S.N. (2022) ‘Recent Significant Insights and Paradigm Shift in Accounting Trends in the Modern World’, International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, 3(12), pp.2344-2351.
  • Makarenko, I. and Plastun, A. (2017) ‘The role of accounting in sustainable development’, Accounting and Financial Control, 1(2), pp.4-12.
  • Omagbon, P. (2015) ‘Conceptual Development of Accounting: A Historical Perspective’, International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2(11), pp.1393-1402.