(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Outline some of the alternative technical languages and practices of finance;
- Competently record and summarise simple financial transactions, explain the nature of assets and liabilities for companies and outline alternative sources of short and long term finance;
- Outline relevant contemporary theories, valuation models and relevant empirical research evidence in finance; and
- Identify activities which raise ethical challenges for practitioners in finance
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme, the ability to:
- Apply basic numerical and statistical skills to interrogate simple financial and other numerical data;
- Extract relevant information to identify solutions from structured scenarios and data;
- Locate, extract, reference, analyse and critically evaluate data and information from multiple sources;
- Structure and communicate quantitative and qualitative information, analysis and commentary in the form of academic essays and business reports and presentations; and
- Demonstrate group working skills in making a professional presentation
Student achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- Demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to finance and financial reporting; and
- Demonstrating the cognitive abilities and generic skills relevant to a career in banking and finance such as group working and preparing a business report.
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