Module Information

Module Identifier
BEM3005
Module Title
Rural Entrepreneurship 1 (Business Objectives and Decisions)
Academic Year
2024/2025
Co-ordinator
Semester
Distance Learning
Reading List
Other Staff

Course Delivery

 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment Report  1500 Words  100%
Supplementary Assessment Report  1500 Words  100%

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of basic budgetary accounts.

Identify external factors affecting rural businesses

Brief description

The course covers what what entrepreneurship really is and how entrepreneurship works and how to be entrepreneurial in your thinking. The course will also introduce the concept of Change Leadership and how businesses can manage change. The second part of the course will provide the students with how to build and develop budgetary accounts, which will provide them with the basics needed for developing their own financials for a business proposal.

Aims

The principle aim of this microcredential is to introduce the topic and also to give them the basic tools required to attempt the other 3 microcredentials from the BDM8320 module.

Content

The course will cover:
1) Principles of Entrepreneurship.
2) Recording and Collating Figures for budgets.

Module Skills

Skills Type Skills details
Creative Problem Solving Students will solve theoretical problems in their report
Critical and analytical thinking Students will be expected to synthesise complex information
Digital capability Students will be required to examine and synthesize quantitative data from a range of publications and databases to develop answers for their report
Real world sense This module will provide the students with and introduction to entreprenuerial thinking and budgetary accounts; they will be assessed on their understanding of this information.
Subject Specific Skills Budgetary accounting skills will be introduced to the students along with the how successful entrepreneurs think and act.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7