Accounting and Financial Management (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.
Dr Peter Heard
Provost

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 patterns. With pride, we aim to help you those from non-traditional backgrounds develop and flourish beyond expectations.

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.