Explore different resources available for your subject area
In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject areas of Business and Management and Accounting and Finance. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login. There is also a range of open access resources freely available online.
Business, Management and Finance Key Subscription Resources
We subscribe to various resources for your wider reading and research. Most important ones for your subject areas are listed here, but many more are also available in Library Search.
BOB is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
Access to bibliographic, citation and full text of over 60,000 British, adopted European and International standards.
Business Source Complete from EBSCO contains over 1600 full text peer-reviewed academic journals covering all aspects of business and management, accounting and finance and economics, plus more than 1600 full text trade journals and general business magazines. Many of the scholarly journals are available in full text from the very first issue, and over 1200 are in full text from 2003 onwards, making Business Source Complete a key resource for academic researchers. It also contains market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses; plus author profiles and interviews.
Cite them right: the essential referencing guide
Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to do Harvard referencing correctly. Based on the best-selling book by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
The Economist (direct subscription, not in Library Search)
Weekly magazine focusing on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. Please register using your university email and contact us if you are having issues with access.
This collection of journals covers a range of subjects related to business and finance from Accounting to Women in Management. Coverage generally begins with 1994. For more information, http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/xtra/index.htm
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Covering the latest insights in entrepreneurship and small business ownership, Entrepreneurial Studies Source is an essential full-text database for business students and researchers. It offers hundreds of full-text journals and books, plus company profiles and videos.
Euromonitor Passport (Euromonitor International Market Research Monitor)
Global market analysis software platform, which analyses key industries in countries around the world. This online market research tool also monitors industry trends and provides strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for key industries and sectors in over 220 countries.
FAME (direct subscription, not in Library Search)
FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) contains comprehensive information on both public and private companies across the UK and Ireland. Please log in with your username and password.
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format
Harvard Business School Select Case Study Selection
The HBS case studies collection are curated by editors from Harvard Business Publishing and are built around themes that are essential knowledge in today’s business context. HBS case studies provide immersive real-world scenarios and commentary to help students examine issues related to the dynamics of business and society, navigating changing workplaces, and managing teams, personal decisions, and career growth.
IBISWorld provides industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries using the five-digit level of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (UKSIC). Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, supply chain, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, major player market strategies, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks.
Lexis+ UK includes annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary. It includes Halsburys Laws, ICLR Law Reports, UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents, definitions of legal terms, over 80 leading journals.
International company profiles are provided by Marketline.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Sage Business Cases is a collection of more than 5,500 business cases from over 120 countries. Sage curates interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more.
Sage Skills is an interactive digital resource that empowers students to learn the practical academic and personal skills needed to thrive during their time in higher education and beyond.
Westlaw UK is an online legal information service. It has comprehensive case law, legislation and journal archives and an exclusive collection of news and business information.
Business, Management and Finance Open Access Resources
Open Access means, anyone from anywhere in the world can read something without paying, even if they are not a university member. Consequently, even after you graduate, you can use these resources.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
The global body for professional accountants. Provides information, advice and resources including syllabuses, study guides, past exam papers and more.
Association for Project Management (APM)
This is the only chartered membership organisation for the project profession in the world. Their activities raise the profile of the project profession, challenge the status quo where it matters and set the highest standards.
British Library - Management & Business Studies Portal
This online portal from the British Library will help you find and use high quality management research publications quickly and easily. These include full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants. You will also find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
The world’s leading and largest professional body of management accountants helping individuals and businesses to succeed by harnessing the full power of management accounting and accounting for business.
Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
The Chartered Institute of Marketing supports, develops and represents marketers, teams, leaders and the marketing profession as a whole. As the largest professional marketing body in the world, CIM offer membership and career development, professional marketing qualifications, training courses and helps businesses grow with tailored support to enhance marketing capability.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
The professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work. They also got factsheets on how to carry out SWOT and PESTLE analyses.
Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
Offers practical, proven solutions for individual managers, employers and education providers alike creating better led and managed organisations.
This is a government agency providing free company information including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual returns, officers, charges, business activity, and more.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
The government department that brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change.
This online library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organisations; it offers one of the world's largest well-organised collections of articles and resources on Business and Management.
The Government's HM Treasury releases a large range of statistics including forecasts for the UK economy, weekly economic indicators, statistics on public spending and finance, gross domestic product deflators.
Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
Creates leaders and develops managers through qualifications, training and cutting edge research giving them the skills to make a real difference in their organisation and beyond
London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges and can trace its history back more than 300 years. London Stock Exchange Group was created in October 2007 when London Stock Exchange merged with Milan Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
Please note, as the resources above are not provided or subscribed to by the University, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us if a resource is not accessible anymore and we will remove the link.
Business, Management and Finance Study and Exam Skills
Developing a range of academic skills is an essential part of ensuring success in your studies and future employment. Explore our Study Skills section and book an online appointment if you require support.
If you are taking exams, follow the steps below for success.
Before the exam:
- Well before the exam, make sure you clearly mark the date, time and venue of the exam in your diary or calendar
- Make sure you know in plenty of time before the exam what is expected of you and prepare accordingly
- Try and get a good night’s sleep the night before the exam
- On the day, make sure you arrive at the right place and in plenty of time
- Think positively; this is an opportunity to demonstrate what you have been learning
- Have a clear strategy for tackling the exam paper
During the exam:
- Be sure to write your name and/or exam number on all of your answer sheets
- Check the back of the exam paper for important information or instructions
- Scan the paper for questions that you feel you can confidently answer and mark them
- Read the questions all the way through before starting
- Tackle your best question first as this will help you get started
- Make a brief plan for any essay type question before you begin
- Make a note of any new thoughts that occur whilst writing
- Make sure you answer all the questions you need to
- Allow yourself plenty of time to answer each question - try and stick to the times you have allocated to yourself to answer each question during the exam
- Manage your time well so that you can answer as many questions as possible
- Give equal time to questions that carry equal marks, and more time to any that carry extra marks
- Try to give reasonable answers to the given number of questions
- It is better to at least make an attempt at answering all the questions than spending all your time on one question and completely miss out on answering other questions
- If you run out of time you have allocated for one of your answers, then leave a space so that you can return to it later
- Do not write everything you know about a topic but answer the specifics of each question
Remember, examiners are interested in how you:
- Make sense of the question
- Relate it to the course
- Develop a line of reasoning
- Evaluate opposing viewpoints
- Offer evidence that supports your argument