BSC N400 Accounting,
BSC N401 Accounting (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N402 Accounting (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N404 Accounting (Including Placement Year),
BSC N420 Accounting and Finance,
BSC N422 Accounting and Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC NN43 Accounting and Finance (Including Foundation Year),
BSC NNK3 Accounting and Finance (Including Year Abroad),
MACCN440 Accounting and Finance,
MACCN441 Accounting and Finance (Including Placement Year),
MACCN442 Accounting and Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC NN24 Accounting and Management,
BSC NN27 Accounting and Management (Including Placement Year),
BSC NNK2 Accounting and Management (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N4L1 Accounting with Economics (Including Foundation Year),
BSC NKL1 Accounting with Economics (Including Year Abroad),
BSC NL41 Accounting with Economics,
BSC NL44 Accounting with Economics (Including Placement Year),
BSC N233 Actuarial Science (Including Placement Year),
BSC N233DT Actuarial Science (Including Placement Year),
BSC N323 Actuarial Science,
BSC N323DF Actuarial Science,
BSC N323DT Actuarial Science,
BSC N324 Actuarial Science (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N325 Actuarial Science (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N390 Banking and Finance,
BSC N391 Banking and Finance (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N392 Banking and Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC NH90 Banking and Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N300 Finance,
BSC N301 Finance (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N302 Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N304 Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC GN13 Finance and Mathematics,
BSC GN15 Finance and Mathematics (Including Placement Year),
BSC GN18 Finance and Mathematics (Including Foundation Year),
BSC GN1H Finance and Mathematics (Including Year Abroad),
BA L147 Financial Economics and Accounting (Including Placement Year),
BA L148 Financial Economics and Accounting,
BA L149 Financial Economics and Accounting (Including Year Abroad),
BA LX14 Financial Economics and Accounting (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N344 Finance and Management,
BSC N345 Finance and Management (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N346 Finance and Management (Including Placement Year),
BSC N347 Finance and Management (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MN10 Law with Finance,
LLB MN11 Law with Finance (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MN12 Law with Finance (Including Placement Year),
LLB MN13 Law with Finance (Including Foundation Year),
MSCIN399 Actuarial Science and Data Science,
BSC N333 Actuarial Studies,
BSC N333DT Actuarial Studies,
BSC N334 Actuarial Studies (Including Placement Year),
BSC N334DT Actuarial Studies (Including Placement Year),
BSC N335 Actuarial Studies (Including Year Abroad)
The module is designed to give students an introduction to the finance subject area. In particular, the module gives an overview of the financial system, instruments and markets, and ideas about finance concepts and problems. The topics covered include securities markets, return and risk, and portfolio theory.
1. To develop and transmit knowledge about the financial system, instruments and markets and ideas about finance concepts and problems at an introductory level;
2. To make students aware, at an introductory level, of different ways of thinking about and analysing financial phenomena;
3. To give students an appreciation of the role that finance plays in society;
4. To provide students with a firm foundation for further studies in finance.
Skills for Your Professional Life
(Transferable Skills - reflecting the skills mapping recently undertaken in EBS)
1. Improve your literacy and numeracy skills;
2. Develop your core IT skills by learning to work in Excel to solve financial problems with the use of statistical tools;
3. Improve your commercial awareness by familiarising with the current developments in finance;
4. Enhance your communication skills in class discussions;
5. Develop your personal plan of setting targets and time management to undertake coursework and exam.
Analytical Domain
Academic and Cognitive Skills
A1 Synthesis and bringing together concepts and ideas
A2 Critical thinking
A3 Evaluation of evidence
A4 Creative problem solving
Data Analysis Skills
D1 Analysing quantitative data
D3 Analysing financial data
Personal Effectiveness Domain
Soft Skills
S3 Showing adaptability to changing circumstances
S4 Showing own initiative
S5 Demonstrating motivation to succeed
Professional Practice Domain
Technology Skills
T1 Core IT skills (word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook)
T2 Working with data interactively (dashboards, databases)
T4 Understanding data visualisation and manipulation using industry benchmark software
Finance Skills
F1 Understand concepts and methodologies used to explain the behaviour of different
financial market participants and the functioning of different financial market types
F2 Apply key concepts and methodologies used to explain the behaviour of different financial
market participants and the functioning of different financial market types