Foundation Year in Business, Finance and Accounting Foundation Year

The Foundation Year is intended to provide a bridging role between pre-university study and the academic rigour of an undergraduate degree.

The Foundation Year gives you a fundamental knowledge of mathematics, statistics, economics, business management, finance and accounting to ensure that you are fully prepared to enter Programme Stage 1 of any of the Business Management, Finance, and Accounting and Finance - related degrees at Bayes.

* Provide you with a foundational education in business, finance and accounting, including concepts, theories, methodologies and techniques to develop a basic understanding of organisations and markets, their major functions, their management and the changing external environment in which they operate.

* Develop your skills to enable you to tackle problems through an appreciation of cultural, political, economic and technological issues.

* Provide you with an interdisciplinary intellectual framework, together with a familiarity with both literate and numerate modes of thought, analysis and expression.

* Develop your hard skills which deal with technical or administrative procedures related to an organisation’s core business and soft skills (people skills) linked to how people relate to each other: communicating, listening, engaging in dialogue, giving feedback, cooperating as a team member, solving problems, as well as personal self-reflection and self-awareness.

* Equip you with the ability to work and think both independently, as well as part of a team, in solving problems faced by the business community.

* Develop you into a responsible, ethical and socially aware business person or manager.