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funds trade and do they destabilise the financial system? Why do stock markets crash?
Our courses include a range of modules in corporate finance, asset pricing, risk management, and portfolio management that allow you to have informed opinions on the above questions. You will also be able to choose options in accounting and management that complement the specialist courses in finance.
Which course should
I choose? BSc Finance This specialist course provides the opportunity to learn about the global financial system from the viewpoint of the investor, the analyst, the academic and the policy-maker. Taught by financial experts with both academic and private sector experience, introductory modules examine how investors should construct a portfolio of assets, how firms decide to fund their operations, how assets should be priced and whether financial markets work well. As the course progresses, it examines finance in its international context, how statistics can be used to make financial decisions and explores the controversial world of derivative markets.
BSc Financial Management This course shares a number of modules with the specialist finance course but also ensures that you acquire a sound knowledge of key management subjects such as organisational behaviour, business strategy and the international business environment. The management modules enable you to analyse the exciting possibilities and potential dangers that arise when managing others and discuss how corporate, social and environmental responsibilities impact on the business organisation. In the final year, advanced modules build on previous knowledge and examine how business strategy varies across business types, cultures and countries.
BSc Finance with a Modern Language BSc Finance and Modern Languages These four-year courses will enable you to become proficient in one or more modern languages, while giving you an academic training in the principles of finance. They will give you a broad foundation in the financial decision
making of companies, banks, institutional investors, and individuals, while devoting specific attention to the nature and role of financial markets. They also provide an opportunity for you to develop expertise in a chosen specialism. Your third year will be spent abroad so that you can practise your language skills while developing an understanding of the culture and society of another country.
You will acquire a sufficient depth of knowledge to pursue a career in the financial sector. These courses will also provide you with the knowledge and analytical skills to continue with postgraduate studies.
Why study banking at Essex?
The past twenty years have witnessed an increasing globalisation of financial markets and banking. At the same time, deregulation and technological advances have enabled banks to rapidly widen their operational scope and make them an integral component of all financial sectors. It is, therefore, imperative that students of modern-day finance appreciate the importance and changing role of banks in the global economy. With that in mind, if you take a course in banking, you consider questions that include: Why are banks special and how do they improve firms’ and households’ wealth? How can banks improve their measurement and management of risks? How are banks regulated and how could this change in light of the recent financial crisis and the increasing globalisation of banks?
BSc Banking and Finance This specialist course will enable you to develop a theoretical and practical knowledge of both disciplines. In support of the finance module lectures, you will be taught the key theoretical underpinnings as to why banks exist and how banks operate in the modern economy. In the final year, you will build on this knowledge to explore and critique current issues in modern banking such as bank risk management, international banking and banking regulation and supervision. Your learning experience is provided by banking specialists who are active banking researchers and who can bring practical banking experience to the classroom.
Studying banking at Essex will provide you with a thorough grounding in the key issues relevant to today’s global financial institutions and markets, and the skills to evaluate them. The knowledge and skills acquired will prove invaluable in any financial sector career.
BSc Banking and Finance with a Modern Language BSc Banking, Finance and Modern Languages These four-year courses will enable you to become proficient in one or more modern languages, while giving you an academic training in the principles of banking and finance. As well as developing a good level of fluency and accuracy in your chosen language(s), you will gain an understanding of the culture and society of the countries which use these languages. In particular, through the year abroad, you will be able to experience, engage with and integrate into another culture. The courses will also give you the opportunity to analyse the financial and banking sectors, and will equip you with an understanding of fundamental research.
We aim to produce students who will have the knowledge to start careers in the financial sector, in areas such as banking, stock broking, derivatives, insurance, and regulation.
Optional modules Accounting, Finance and Banking modules: Applying E-Commerce in Business; Auditing; Behavioural Finance; Corporate Finance, Governance and Control; International Accounting; Introduction to Banking; Issues in Financial Analysis; Professionalism and the Accountancy Profession.
Other modules
Accountability; Body and Organisation; Brand Management; Busi ness Ethics; Business Law; Corporate Governance; Critical Perspectives on Technology and Organisation; Employee Relations; Employment Law; Facing up to Management Fads; Human Resource Management; Insolvency Law; Management Psychology; Managerial Decision-making; Managing Culture; Marketing; Marketing Management; Organisational Structures, Boundaries and Space.
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