Economics and Finance BSc Honours
Bachelor's degree
In Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Newcastle-upon-tyne
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
You will graduate equipped with skills for a career in financial management in the global marketplace. You study topics such as:
corporate finance
financial accounting
international financial management
You also develop a thorough understanding of modern economics, including:
financial economics
economic modelling
micro- and macro-economic theory
You graduate with an appreciation of the interaction between the finance sector of the economy and the wider economic environment.
Facilities
Location
Start date
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About this course
You will benefit from state-of-the-art facilities in our new Business School building, and specialist career and business start-up support. This degree is also available with a placement year or with a study abroad year.
Study abroad
Work placement
Professionally accredited
A Level: AAB
IB: 35 points
Reviews
Subjects
- Financial Management
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Accounting
- Economics
- Finance
- Financial
- Financial Training
- Econometric
- Accounting
- Accounting and Finance
- Management Accounting
- Economic analysis
Course programme
Compulsory modules
- ACC1010 Introduction to Financial Accounting
- ACC1011 Introduction to Management Accounting and Finance
- ECO1002 Economic Analysis
- ECO1007 Statistical Methods for Economics
- ECO1010 Mathematics for Economics
- ECO1018 Economic Applications
PLEASE NOTE: If you are required to take the University English Language assessment, or equivalent, and achieve below 70 you must take INU9094 Writing for Business School Undergraduates and/or INU9053 Listening and Speaking for Business School Undergraduates on a NOT FOR CREDIT basis (in addition to the 120 credits listed above).
Stage 2Compulsory modules
- ACC2007 Corporate Finance
- ECO2003 Economic Modelling
- ECO2004 Microeconomic Analysis
- ECO2005 Macroeconomic Analysis
- ECO2009 Econometric Analysis
You take 20 credits of modules from the following list:
- ACC2003 Financial Control
- ACC2005 Intermediate Financial Accounting
- ECO2007 Price Discrimination
- ECO2008 International Economics
- ECO2011 Economics of Regulation
- ECO2013 Economic Evaluation and Investment
- ECO2014 European Economics
- ECO2015 Applied Economics
- ECO2017 Mathematical Economics
Between Stages two and three, you have the option to spend a full academic year on a work placement with an approved organisation.
You will complete the following modules:
- ECO3011 Intercalating Year Personal Learning Record
- ECO3015 Intercalating Year Reflective Learning Account
Alternatively you may apply to spend Stage 2 studying economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands for a year which counts directly towards your final degree mark. If you do this you must pass the following module in order to progress to Stage 3:
- ECO2016 Gronigen Economics Exchange
Compulsory modules
- ACC3006 International Financial Management
- ECO3001 Advanced Microeconomics
- ECO3002 Advanced Macroeconomics
- ECO3018 Financial Economics
You take 50 credits of modules from the following:
Either 40 credits from the following list:
- ECO3019 Dissertation Part 1
- ECO3030 Dissertation Part 2 - Independent Research Project
- ECO3008 Advanced Econometric Analysis OR
- ECO3017 Advanced Time Series Econometrics
Plus 10 credits from the list below.
Or All 50 credits from the list below:
- ACC3001 Financial Accounting
- ACC3002 Management Accounting
- ACC3003 Issues in Behavioural Finance
- ACC3004 Derivative Markets
- ACC3009 Taxation in Accounting
- ECO3004 Labour Economics
- ECO3005 Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods
- ECO3008 Advanced Econometric Analysis
- ECO3010 Monetary Economics
- ECO3014 Public Economics
- ECO3017 Advanced Time Series Econometrics
- ECO3022 Health Economics
- ECO3024 Economics of Development
- ECO3026 Industrial Economics and Policy
- ECO3037 Microeconomics of Banking
- ECO3066 Environmental Economics
Additional information
Economics and Finance BSc Honours
