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...business entity. Although a company’s financial statements do not provide direct future-oriented information, in this course you will explore how the users can make use of financial statements (containing backward information) to obtain forward-looking predictive information. This course will introduce you to a variety of techniques that can be used to analyse financial...

...business” policies in the name of increasing “competitiveness”. To provide a brief historical overview of this relationship – England was the first country in the world to industrialise beginning in the early 19th century. Although first considered illegal, unions were officially legalised in 1857. Over the next century, they would be influential in representing...

...business practices. Recent decades have seen an array of news stories where risk management failings have undermined an organisation and dented the credibility of its management. These failings have led to the demise of some companies – for example Lehman Brothers, World Com and Enron. Worse than this in many instances the failings have resulted in deaths and injuries...

...business is that whereas a business raises most of its money from its customers a charity has to fundraise from a different group of people to those the organisation aims to serve. This means the organisation can be pulled in different directions. For example an image of a helpless, starving child may be effective in raising money, but does not project a positive image of...

...business schools, Khotiyal and colleagues – who are organisational studies scholars – have argued that the management knowledge that is considered legitimate and high-quality both in the global south and in the global north is based on international journal rankings whereby high-level journals are exclusively based in the US and the UK. This leads business schools and...

The Bottom Line is the business conversation programme where the people at the top share their insight into what really matters. Presenter, Evan Davies, explains the format of the popular BBC Radio 4/Open University co-produced programme...Transcript More about The Bottom Line Listen via the BBC iPlayer Radio app or subscribe to the podcast via your chosen podcast provider