BSc in Finance

Our specialist BSc Finance degree places considerable emphasis on the key quantitative and analytical skills needed to pursue a career in finance and financial markets. The degree prepares you for a career in the financial environment by providing a technical curriculum to strengthen the link between academia and practice. BSc Finance enables you to acquire a critical understanding of theories, empirical evidence, and practical application whilst maintaining a rigorous academic underpinning. In particular, you will learn about corporate finance, investments, financial institutions and the vast array of sophisticated financial products traded in today’s global financial markets. Furthermore, you will develop the quantitative techniques needed to analyze, in-depth, financial data and financial securities.

Flexibility – subject to optional module choice and successful completion of your first year – it may be possible to change your degree path to either Accounting and Finance or Accounting and Management. (Students who require a Tier 4 visa will need to check this in advance with the Tier 4 regulations which are in place at the time).

Year 1

In the first year, compulsory modules will provide you with the key fundamentals to examine and evaluate modern financial markets. These include:

• Introduction to Financial Accounting
• Introduction to Management Accounting
• Foundations of Finance
• Introduction to Economics
• Quantitative Methods

Further optional modules will be chosen from a range which has in the past include:

• Business Environment and Functions
• The Global Economy
• A foreign language

Year 2

In the second year, you will study three compulsory modules, including:

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Markets and Institutions
• Introduction to Financial Econometrics

By studying these modules you will be able to examine financial issues and the institutions, markets, and securities that facilitate the vast array of financial transactions that occur continuously across global markets. Furthermore, you will acquire numerous quantitative tools that enable you to interpret financial data and price financial securities.

The finance modules are complemented by two compulsory economics modules:

• Microeconomics for Finance
• Macroeconomics and International Finance

You will also choose one further module from a selection which in previous years have included, for example:

• Corporate Financial Reporting
• Principles of Business Law
• Auditing and Assurance
• Introduction to Taxation
• A foreign language

Year 3

In the third year you will study one compulsory module:

• Security Investment Analysis

You will also complete a Dissertation which will allow you to analyze, in great depth, your choice of research question in finance. These modules facilitate the development of your theoretical and empirical knowledge of core and topical issues in finance.

You will also choose three modules from a selection which in the past has included:

• Financial Econometrics
• Financial Engineering
• International and Multinational Finance
• Behavioural Finance
• Islamic Economics and Finance
• A foreign language

The course is founded in the disciplines of Finance and Economics and has significant application to practice whilst maintaining a rigorous academic underpinning