BSc Financial Management (4 Years Including Foundation Year)
Bachelor's degree
In Colchester
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Colchester
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Duration
4 Years
About the course
Our BSc Financial Management (including foundation year) is open to Home, EU and international students
It will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills
This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study
During your Year Zero, you study four academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory English language and academic skills module
You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK
After successful completion of Year Zero in our International Academy, you progress to complete your course with Essex Business School
This course combines the study of finance with business management
We use real-life examples to apply financial theory to practice and explore how companies, banks, investors and financial professionals make decisions
You examine the challenges impacting business strategies across the globe and have access to our virtual trading floor
Here, you can use industry standard Bloomberg data, information and analytics to practise making financial decisions and trading stocks and securities using the same equipment found in many leading financial organisations
You cover topics including:
the nature and role of financial markets
corporate finance
organisational behaviour
business strategy
risk management
Your first year also covers topics in marketing, accounting and economics to provide you with a fully-rounded business education
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Subjects
- Financial
- Financial Training
- Finance
- International
- Trading
- IT risk
- Risk Management
- Marketing
- Corporate Finance
- Risk
- Organisational Behaviour
- Supply and Chain Management
- Skills and Training
Course programme
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 0
Introduction to Business Management
Introduction to Economics
Mathematics and Statistics
Academic Skills
Year 1
Introduction to Accounting
Quantitative Methods and Finance
Introduction to Management and Marketing
Economics for Business
Research and Study Skills for Professional Development
Personal Tutor Meetings
Year 2
Corporate Finance
Portfolio Analysis
Financial Modelling
Organisational Behaviour
International Business Environment
Business Strategy
Successful Futures
Financial Reporting and Analysis (optional)
Final year
International Finance
Risk Management and Financial Institutions
Options and Futures
Financial Markets and Monetary Policy (optional)
Current Issues in Financial Reporting (optional)
Management, Innovation and New Technology (optional)
Development Finance and Microcredit (optional)
Teaching
Your teaching mainly takes the form of lectures and classes, the latter involving about 20 students
You can contribute and interact in lectures through the use of smart technology
A typical timetable includes a one-hour lecture and a one-hour class for each of your four modules every week
Any language classes involve language laboratory sessions
Our classes are run in small groups, so you receive a lot of individual attention
Assessment
Your assessed coursework will generally consist of essays, reports, in-class tests, individual or group oral presentations, and small scale research projects
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BSc Financial Management (4 Years Including Foundation Year)