MN22164: Intermediate business analytics
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Forecasting analysis and report of a business problem (CWES 50%)
- Application of multivariate statistical methods techniques (CWES 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take MN12007 OR take ES12010 OR take MA12009 OR take MA10213
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Recognise the role that analytics techniques can play in the solution of management problems and identify problems that are amenable to these techniques.
- Identify appropriate forecasting methods for managerial problems.
- Apply and evaluate the performance of forecasting methods.
- Develop the ability to assess the strengths and limitations of any given analytics application.
- Communicate effectively with specialists in management science.
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| Synopsis: | Advance skills in business analytics to gain an understanding of how modern techniques can support and improve business decision making by yielding information and insights and suggesting solutions to multi-faceted problems. Through lectures and seminars, you will work on various forecasting techniques used in a business context and methods to evaluate these, and explore multivariate statistical methods to address business decisions.
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| Content: | Likely topics for this unit include:
The role of analytics in organisations
Measuring bias and accuracy in forecasting
Time series analysis
Univariate forecasting methods
Explanatory forecasting methods
Multivariate statistical methods to support managerial decisions
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| Course availability: |
MN22164 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management with work placement (Year 2)
- UMMN-ANB12 : BSc(Hons) Business (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB13 : BSc(Hons) International Management with study or work abroad (Year 2)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB15 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with work placement (Year 2)
- UMMN-AKB14 : BSc(Hons) Management with work placement (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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