SECTION 3 – BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SPECIALISED DEGREES
BA Finance CAO Code: MH401 FIN | CAO Points 2018: 353
CAO Code: MH401 FIN CAO Points 2018: 353 CAO Points Range 2017: 351-509 Places 2018: 50
Erasmus/Study Abroad Option: Yes Mature Applicants: See p. 202 UK, EU & International Applicants: See p. 207 QQI Link: See p. 204
>Potentially pursue a career in finance with this degree.
>Learn how the financial system works – how assets are traded, international markets are linked, government policy decisions affect the economy and how financial markets respond.
>Understand why currencies rise and fall, stock markets boom and bust, property values soar and crash and why interest rates fluctuate.
Why choose this degree? >You’re considering a career in financial management or banking. >You would like to have the option of studying another subject as a Minor.
>You’re interested in learning how to use analytical tools – including mathematics, deductive logic and applied statistics – to examine problems and devise logical solutions.
Leaving Certificate: 2H5 & 4O6/H7, Irish, English & O4/H7 Mathematics Duration: 3 years Placement Option: No
Options after graduation? >Finance graduates have strong numeracy skills, coupled with an ability to think critically and analytically – invaluable assets in a wide range of professions. Graduates can be found in the banking and financial services industry, economic consultancy, finance units of public and private sector organisations, financial research, journalism and teaching. Postgraduate study also possible e.g. MSc Finance, MSc Economic and Risk Analysis, PhD Finance.
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You might also like MH101: Finance in the Bachelor of Arts degree p. 66 MH401 IFE: BA International Finance and Economics p. 131 MH403: BA Accounting and Finance p. 133
Course structure 1st year
Finance and Economics are the major elements of your degree. Study of Finance begins in 2nd year as students first require an introduction to the principles of how markets work and how money and finance interact with the economy > 15 credits of Economics, 7.5 credits of Accounting, 7.5 credits of Mathematics
>Option to take a further 7.5 credits of Mathematics
>Optional (but recommended) extra 7.5 credits of Accounting in the 2nd semester
>Choose 1 subject including Critical Skills from groups 1, 2 and 5 – maximum one per group (see p. 43 for subject groups)
Maynooth Education Critical Skills Option Electives Option (see p. 13 for details)
Possible topics 1st year
> Economics, Macroeconomics, Mathematics and Accounting
> Optional 15 credit Critical Skills (see p. 13 for details)
2nd year and Final year
Students choose from these options: (a) Choose between the Single Major and Major/Minor routes to degree level
Single Major: about 50% of modules are compulsory and are in Finance and the parts of Economics important to Finance. There are a lot of optional modules in Economics, and depending on your choices in the 2nd semester of 1st year you may take further modules in Finan- cial Accounting and/or Mathematics
Major/Minor: approximately 33% of your time is spent with the Minor subject, and you take fewer modules in Finance and Econom- ics, though the core modules are still compulsory. Minor subjects to choose from include Business, Computer Science, Criminology, Geography, German, Greek, History, Law, Music, Philosophy, Sociol- ogy or Spanish. You must have completed 15 credits in the subject in 1st year to be eligible for the Major/Minor. BA Finance students may choose to take a year out between 2nd and final year either on placement (subject to availability) or studying abroad
(b) Switch to the BA Accounting and Finance degree (MH403)
MH401 is a sister degree to MH403 BA Accounting and Finance, with many modules in common. Side steps between the two degrees are allowed at the end of 1st year, depending on the 1st year optional modules chosen
Students can switch to MH403 Finance and Accounting degree at the end of first year provided 22.5 credits of Accounting are taken in 1st year and you attain 60% if you did not have the required CAO points for entry to MH403. Those who are reasonably certain they wish for a career in Accounting should consider MH403 which maximises Accounting exemptions. However modules such as Money and Banking, and Financial Institutions are not available to specialist Accountants (MH403). Some exemptions are available to those who choose to study Financial Accounting in all three years through MH401, taking either Finance (FIN) or International Finance and Economics (IFE)
2nd year
Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Econometrics, Financial Markets and Institutions, Money and Banking, Microeconom- ics, Macroeconomics, Economics of the European Union
130
Optional 10 credit Electives (see p. 13 for details)
Final year
Investments, Derivative Securities, Ethics and Corporate Governance Financial Modelling, Fixed Income Markets, Econometrics, International Finance, Irish Economy, Finance Thesis
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