BSc Financial Management (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

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Bachelor's degree

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£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Colchester

  • 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

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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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

Example structure
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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Additional information

You have the option to tailor your course to your career aspirations by choosing from optional modules in your final year In your final year, you will have the opportunity to put your knowledge into practice by completing an in-depth, independent research project or dissertation (subject to approval) This will give you the chance to further develop vital employability skills in areas of research, time management critical thinking Essex Business School is globally renowned for research and ranked in the top 25 in the UK for research excellence (REF 2014) You benefit from highly relevant and engaging course content inspired by cutting-edge thinking to prepare you for a career in financial management Professional accreditation Essex Business School courses provide you with accreditations and exemptions from a range of professional bodies including: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) This means that you are able to gain a professional qualification by taking fewer exams when you graduate, giving your career a head start Our expert staff You learn from leading academics and business practitioners from a variety of backgrounds with expansive research interests Our finance group is one of the largest and most respected in the UK, with staff joining us from across the globe Our staff specialise in areas including: behavioural finance financial bubbles the management of organisational space and architecture psychoanalytics of management Specialist facilities By studying within our International Academy for your foundation year, you will have access to all of the facilities that the University of Essex has to offer, as well as those provided by our Academy to support you: We provide computer labs for internet research; classrooms with access to PowerPoint facilities for student presentations; AV...

BSc Financial Management (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

£ 9,250 + VAT