Financial Economics - BA (Hons) *

The module aims to provide you with the numeric skills you will require as you embark on your economic undergraduate studies, as well as preparing you for a graduate placement or career within this discipline.

You will be initially introduced to the discipline of economics, the range of careers that are open to graduates from this discipline as well as the key employability skills valued by employers. You will then be introduced to the key quantitative and qualitative skills you will require to transit onto subsequent modules and progress your studies.

You will learn about the financial environment in which a business operates, as well as being able to conduct investment appraisals and explain the major types of long-term capital and their distinguishing features. You’ll also learn to recognise the key tools that are used to identify risk. Assessment is carried out through writing a business report. 

This module will teach you the fundamental economic principles, theories and models. You’ll learn to evaluate the impact that external micro, macro and international environments have on the activities and performance of businesses. 

Here you will learn to use data as an aid when it comes to making business-sensitive decisions, demonstrating a good understanding of good practice in the process. You’ll perform basis statistical and mathematical calculations, strengthening your data presentation skills.

Applied Economics will teach you to explain and summarise the contribution of economic theory to real-world economic problems, using scenarios you’ll encounter in real life to enhance your decision-making and problem-solving skills. 

This module is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of financial information systems and will introduce you to the role of Information Systems and some of the types of systems that exist and are currently utilised by global organisations, both large and small, profit and non-profit making.

Here you will apply knowledge to specific economic situations, solving problems using mathematical and graphical methods. You’ll look at different evidence and arguments, and develop the skills you need to undertake further economic courses.

Appropriate economic models will be selected in order for you to analyse macroeconomic problems. You’ll demonstrate knowledge and understanding of macroeconomic concepts, theories and models at an intermediate level. 

This module is designed to broaden your understanding of the main issues in modern corporate finance. The module is well established to cover topics that include mergers and acquisitions, dividend policy, and capital structure and theory. It is intended for those students who are interested to pursue a career in finance.

You will be given the opportunity to experience how econometrics can be used to empirically study and answer questions across a variety of disciplines. Moreover, this module introduces you to data extraction, data analysis and data interpretation using a statistical software, hereby offering a practice-led, knowledge-applied education experience.  

The module will introduce students to the risk management strategies of corporate organisations in which you will learn how to identify, classify and evaluate risk. Risk management using both internal and external strategies will be explored. The knowledge of assessing and managing risk associated with cash flows and capital investment decisions will also be acquired. Credit risk will also be introduced. Students will be able to understand risk documentation and reporting procedures in corporate organisations.

The great economic thinkers – Smith, Marx, Keynes and Hayek – will be analysed and understood as you look at the relevance of their theories in today’s economic climate. You should be able to outline and apply their theoretical models to the historical events which they investigated.

This module is designed for the student who wishes to learn how to utilize financial theory in real world applications. The course is practical in nature and will implement computational approach to many financial problems. This module will build upon modules that are covered in year 1 and will link to the year 3 modules. Upon completion of the course, the student will be fluent in both Excel as well as financial modelling. Such fluency will position students very well for essentially many financial job.

The aim of this module is to provide an understanding on the application of economic analysis to key sustainable development goals such as environmental sustainability and economic development. It equips students with the knowledge and tools required to analyse and critically discuss the trade-offs between the three pillars of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. This module introduces students to key concepts, literature and debates to investigate relationships between macroeconomics policies, poverty and environment.

Contemporary Business: Practice and Solutions investigates current issues that impact upon business organisations. This will provide you with a greater awareness of critical business issues. This module examines some of the many issues affecting businesses today - broad issues such as global warming, migration issues and demographic shifts, which impact on all firms and individuals. It also looks at more specific management issues, such as labour shifts (outsourcing, off-shoring and re-shoring), teleworking and other modern 'slavery' practices.

This module is open to BLSS students, who choose to undertake an international Study Abroad or Erasmus+ study outgoing mobility placement within their second year of study. The aim of this module is to enable individuals to explore their mobility experience through a cross-cultural lens that focusses on the key themes of their discipline in an international context, cross-cultural awareness, social construction, and the self. Informed by activities that draw on research enquiry, creativity, culture, employability, reflection and professional development.

A rise in importance and complexity of international financial management poses a challenge for multinational organisations and those wish to pursue a career in the sector. 

This module will provide you an intuitive and real world grasp of the concepts and issues in international finance which includes foreign exchange rate movements, managing exchange rate risks and foreign investment issues faced by of modern companies.

A wealth of examples and cases are provided to enable you to see the implications of the subject to business, mostly from a multinational corporation’s perspective. You will be encouraged and supported to undertake case studies and investigate contemporary issues relating to international finance.

The module aims to provide understanding of issues in the role of money in the economy and the operation of the monetary and financial system and policy by the application of appropriate economic principles, frameworks and analytical techniques. It pursues excellence in aiming to develop a capacity for conceptualising problems, choosing appropriate frameworks and critically analysing relevant issues. Its teaching and learning strategy seeks to encourage independent learning and development, reasoning and analysis.

This module gives you the chance to undertake a substantial piece of relevant research in an area that interests you. Once the topic has been agreed with the course team, you will conduct extensive research, form adequate conclusions and showcase the skills you have learnt so far. 

The labour market is central to the production process in market economies. For a significant part of their lives people sell their labour in exchange for wages or salaries. Labour is also one of the factors of production, alongside capital, land and entrepreneurship. This is an option model which is offered across the range of economics programmes. All firms and organisations hire labour, so this is a highly relevant module in business and economic context.

Real estate (land and any structures on it) accounts for around half of global wealth. Over the last fifty years investment in real estate has grown massively. At the moment, the diverse activities associated with real estate (e.g. construction, building management, leasing, trading, fund management, finance) together make up a larger fraction of UK GDP than the manufacturing sector. Most recently, the growth of mortgage backed securities, listed real estate firms and the introduction of derivatives based on real estate indices made the industry even more complex.

This module offers a comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of industrial economics (aka Industrial Organisation). It provides an understanding of how a range of theoretical models can be used to explain and predict the behaviour of firms in different types of markets, and how the actions of firms affect household welfare.

This module provides students with a range of forecasting techniques implemented using software such as Excel or SPSS. It builds on the material taught in the level 5 Econometrics module (although this is not a formal prerequisite) and applies regression techniques specifically to time series. This will provide students with an understanding with which they can investigate.

This module will help students in developing knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles and concepts relating to corporate finance and give the theoretical underpinnings of financial management in corporates. The course gives a broader understanding of the philosophies behind the financial management decisions, capital structure, dividend policies and current developments in and modern theories of finance. The module will enable students to evaluate research and synthesise information about corporate financial issues and problems, ability to solve quantitative problems, presentation of ideas, and participation in debates.

This module aims to develop an understating Islamic banking and finance. It explores a number of key issues with the Islamic banking industry and explores the development in becoming a global financial phenomenon. The teaching and learning strategy seeks to critically foster independent learning and development in this field. The module provides a strong basis for further study in the areas of Islamic banking and finance and should equip you with up-to-date knowledge of Islamic Finance both in theory and practice.