{"id":14324,"date":"2021-07-22T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-matters\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2022-02-14T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:37:23","slug":"starting-an-ug-course-in-sep-swot-up-with-our-summer-reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2021\/07\/starting-an-ug-course-in-sep-swot-up-with-our-summer-reading-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Undergraduate Study in Sep? Swot up with our Summer Reading Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you are about to embark on an undergraduate degree and want to brush up on your knowledge nice and early, you are in the right place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here, our course leaders provide a list of the best texts to make a start on your chosen subjects before you start your course&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Accounting and Finance<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Introduction to Financial Accounting 9th Ed \u2013 Andrew Thomas &amp; Anne Marie Ward, McGraw Hill 2019<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Augustine Benedict and Barry Elliott (2011). Financial Accounting: An Introduction 2nd Edition, Pearson Education Ltd, Harlow. 978-0-273-73765-0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Bhimani, A.,\u00a0Horngren, C. T., Datar S. M. and\u00a0Rajan, M. (2019),\u00a0<i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Management and Cost Accounting<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 7th\u00a0edition, Pearson.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Finance and Investment\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The impact of Covid-19 on G7 stock markets volatility: Evidence from a ST-HAR model.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607842\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607842<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>News\u00a0Uncertainty in Brexit United Kingdom. <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aeri.20200019\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aeri.20200019<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Business and Management\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Introduction to\u00a0Management,\u00a0e.g.\u00a0by John R. Schermerhorn Jr. and Daniel G. Bachrach | 14 Apr 2015<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Global Business Environment: Towards Sustainability? by Janet Morrison\u00a0 | 28 Feb 2020<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Business Environment: Themes and Issues in a Globalizing World by Paul Wetherly and Dorron Otter | 29 Mar 2018<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">International Business\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Daniels, John D. (2019), International Business: environment and operations 16<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Edition, England, Pearson.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Villena, V. H., &amp; Gioia, D. A. (2020). A more sustainable supply chain.\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">,\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">98<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">(2), 84-93.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dicken, P. (2015).\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Global shift<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. New York: Guilford Press.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Management<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/a-very-short-fairly-interesting-and-reasonably-cheap-book-about-management-theory\/book268894\">A Very Short,\u00a0Fairly Interesting\u00a0and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Buchanan, D. and Huczynski, A. (2020).<a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pearson.com\/uk\/educators\/higher-education-educators\/program\/Buchanan-Organizational-Behaviour-Buchanan-and-Huczynski-10th-Edition\/PGM2705518.html?tab=overview\">\u00a0Organizational Behaviour<\/a>. Pearson.<\/li>\n<li>Wetherly, P., &amp; Otter, D. (2018). <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-business-environment-9780198739920?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\">The business environment: Themes and issues in a globalising world<\/a>. Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Marketing\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/03\/10-truths-about-marketing-after-the-pandemic\">https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/03\/10-truths-about-marketing-after-the-pandemic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalmarketinginstitute.com\/blog\/10-trends-in-digital-marketing-in-2020\">https:\/\/digitalmarketinginstitute.com\/blog\/10-trends-in-digital-marketing-in-2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbesagencycouncil\/2020\/12\/22\/insights-on-the-top-marketing-trends-for-2021\/?sh=3b08e3d01fc9\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbesagencycouncil\/2020\/12\/22\/insights-on-the-top-marketing-trends-for-2021\/?sh=3b08e3d01fc9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are about to embark on an undergraduate degree and want to brush up on your knowledge nice and early, you are in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2021\/07\/starting-an-ug-course-in-sep-swot-up-with-our-summer-reading-lists\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,1],"tags":[9871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions\/14329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}