BSc (Hons) Finance

Overview

This specialist course aims to provide you with the essential knowledge required to succeed in today’s highly competitive and dynamic world of finance.

This course will interest you if:

You are looking for a career path that requires an understanding of budgeting and financial administration.
Want to gain a solid foundation of knowledge and skills in accounting and finance within a financial context.
Understand the financial world.

Why you should study this course

The Finance course offers an insight into the world of finance. By studying this course you will have the opportunity to:

Dedicated employment support team, the Talent Team, to work with you throughout your course to offer support and potential future career guidance.
Coventry Business School is an active member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). Please refer to the Memberships section for further information.
Teaching benefits from research and insight from corporate partners, including the regulatory bodies and leading consultancies. Examples include Bloomberg and Fitch Connect.
Impressive industrial placement opportunities*, which have previously included: Lloyds Banking Group; Mattioli Woods (Pensions and Wealth Management); HM Treasury; Allianz Indonesia; PwC; The Boots Company; and Jaguar Land Rover.
Opportunity for professional certification of key financial database skills. You will have the opportunity to take the Bloomberg Market Concepts examinations during your first year (subject to availability). Students are expected to pass this assessment in accordance with Bloomberg’s set regulations, and the certificate can help assist your potential future employability as many trading floors around the world are reliant on Bloomberg technology.
Outstanding facilities include our Trading Floor, which is currently one of the largest academic trading floors in Europe, featuring 42 dual screen Bloomberg terminals.
Ability to call upon the maths and statistics support offered by the university’s sigma centre, which runs drop-in sessions led by experienced academics (subject to availability).

How you’ll learn

We set out below the typical teaching contact hours that you will receive on this course. Teaching contact hours will vary in different semesters and years of study and may vary due to module selection. In addition to the contact hours below, we offer the opportunity to attend additional optional sessions, including sessions with the Faculty’s progress coaches, or to meet with staff during their advice and feedback hours.

Within your first and second year, you will have around 12 contact hours of teaching a week which includes:

Medium group teaching: practical classes, seminars or workshops per week.
Large group teaching: lectures each week.

In your final year, if you are undertaking a project/dissertation, there is a greater emphasis placed on independent study and therefore total contact hours may be reduced.

In addition, you will be expected to undertake a significant amount of studying and revising in your own time each week, including some guided study using for example, seminar exercises or online activities.

Assessment

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module. Assessment methods include:

Formal examinations
Phase tests
Essays
Group work
Presentations.

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards the achieving the intended learning outcomes. Assessments may include exams, individual assignments or group work elements.

Job ready

On successful completion of the course, you will have knowledge of:

The core functions of the international financial markets and the impact of finance on businesses and the economy.
Contemporary finance theories and empirical evidence and their relevance and application to practical problems.
The importance of statutory and regulatory financial legislation and their impact on corporate governance structures and the wider business and economic environment.
The skills required to undertake an appropriate depth of analysis from undertaking research appropriate to their area of specialisation with the context of finance.
The skills required to assess and apply finance models and critically evaluate relevant qualitative and quantitative data in the areas of finance.

On successful completion of the course, younwill be able to:

Analyse and interpret financial data using appropriate statistical methods and present it informatively.
Communicate financial concepts, models and techniques in a clear and precise style through written and oral work.
Analyse and draw reasoned conclusions concerning structured and unstructured problems using information drawn from a range of financial sources.
Analyse and discuss contemporary issues in finance using appropriate financial principles.
Exhibit an understanding of research methodologies appropriate to undergraduate level study, formulate relevant finance orientated research questions and employ appropriate research methods.
Manipulate, treat, interpret and synthesise quantitative and qualitative data from a range of sources.

International experience opportunities

You will have the opportunity to take part in an overseas study trip, or a full year abroad. 

In the past, our students have had the opportunity to visit universities in China and Malaysia to study alongside students, see how finance is taught internationally, appreciate the issues in different countries and broaden their perspectives.

Closer to home, you will have the opportunity to participate in European field trips* as part of the annual Tax Week initiative or the annual Audit Week, both of which are conducted in partnership with European universities, and see students work collaboratively on related projects.

International experience opportunities

You will have the opportunity to take part in a number of overseas field trips, some of which have previously been subsidised by the University. In the past, our students have visited universities in China and Malaysia to study alongside students, see how finance is taught internationally, appreciate the issues in different countries and broaden their perspectives. Optional field trips are availble to countries including Malaysia, China, Spain and the Netherlands for all cohorts.

You also have the opportunity to study or work abroad and may be supported by schemes such as Erasmus, Marco Polo and Vasco da Gama. Students have previously participated in tax conferences in Belgium and Holland, where they engaged with students from different countries of the European Union.

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