BE300-4-FY-CO:
Quantitative Methods and Finance
2016/17
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
30
20 January 2003
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
BE311, BE312, BE313, BE314, BE317, BE334, BE339, BE610, BE910, EC251, EC252, EC322, EC368, EC371, EC372, EC383, MA212
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),
BSC NN24 Accounting and Management,
BSC NN27 Accounting and Management (Including Placement Year),
BSC NN42 Accounting and Management (Including Foundation 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 N390 Banking and Finance,
BSC N392 Banking and Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC NH90 Banking and Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N200 Business Management,
BSC N201 Business Management (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N202 Business Management (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N204 Business Management (Including Placement Year),
BSC N300 Finance,
BSC N301 Finance (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N302 Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N304 Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC NN25 Management and Marketing,
BSC NN2M Management and Marketing (Including Placement Year),
BSC NNF5 Management and Marketing (Including Year Abroad),
BA L148 Financial Economics and Accounting,
BA L149 Financial Economics and Accounting (Including Year Abroad)
INTRODUCTION
The aim of the first part of this module is to provide an introduction to the subject of
quantitative methods and their applications in finance, accounting and management. The
module is designed to provide a sound foundation for your future studies. The topics covered
include maths revision, the time value of money, rates of change (calculus), statistics,
probability distributions and simple regression.
The second part of this module is designed to give you 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
investment companies, return and risk, and behavioural finance. Throughout the module,
extensive use will be made of Excel for applying statistical techniques.
LECTURERS
QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Autumn Term
Weeks 2-6: Hardy Thomas
Weeks 7-11: Sam Astill
FINANCE
Spring Term
Weeks 16-17: Anna Sarkisyan
Weeks 18-19: Claudia Girardone
Weeks 20-22: Andrew Wood
Weeks 23-
No information available.
No information available.
No additional information available.
TEACHING DELIVERY
The module material will be delivered in the following way:
a) 2-hour lecture each week
b) 1-hour weekly class or computer workshop
* You will be assigned to a class and you must attend that class.
* Your class attendance will be monitored!
The workshops will be held in the PC Labs where you will have uninterrupted and supervised
practical sessions on Excel to complete the class exercises. It is very important that you
complete all the readings immediately after each lecture because these are an integral part of
the module.
Additional Support
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
IN CLASS TEST - AUTUMN |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
IN CLASS TEST - SPRING |
|
20% |
| Coursework |
ESSAY |
|
50% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
Additional coursework information
An unseen examination (50%) in the Summer term (usually mid-May)
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Autumn - Sam Astill, Chiara Banti, SPRING - Dr Panayiotis Andreou and Professor Andrew Wood
Email: ebsugcol@essex.ac.uk
No
No
No
No external examiner information available for this module.
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Of 493 hours, 431 (87.4%) hours available to students:
61 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
1 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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