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Finance
Key Information
Why study this course?

Finance is central to the understanding of business behaviour,
strategy and performance, and is a superb foundation for many
interesting careers.
Finance at Keele engages with multiple disciplines including economics,
business management, environmental science, mathematics, politics,
psychology and sociology. You’ll learn a theoretical framework for
finance while making extensive use of practical techniques to apply
in real world problem solving. You’ll also learn industry standard
software for organising, presenting and analysing business data.
You’ll learn about investor decision making and the roles of the markets,
exploring concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, information
asymmetry, arbitrage, optimal risk sharing and informational efficiency.
You’ll become confident using data to understand, interpret and manage
financial situations in a range of private and public sector contexts.

Indicative modules

First year
• Accounting Principles
• Quantitative Methods
• Economics of Financial Markets
Second year
• Introduction to Econometrics
• Asset Pricing
• Portfolio Choice
Third year
• Corporate Finance
• Options and Futures
• International Finance
• Applied Financial Analysis

What will this mean
for my future?

Your Finance degree from Keele
will prepare you for a wide choice
of careers. You might work in a
field directly related to finance,
or use your new transferable
skills to do something different.
You could work as an investment
analyst, financial trader, banker or
investment banker, chartered or
management accountant, or tax
advisor. Alternatively, you might
go on to work in insurance, IT,
journalism, statistics or the civil
service, or to train as a solicitor.
This degree will also prepare you
to undertake postgraduate studies
in Finance or related fields.

Course type
Dual honours

For information on dual
honours combinations
please visit www.keele.
ac.uk/ugcourses or page 158

Course duration
Three years

Indicative entry
requirements
BBB or ABC

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

For more course information please visit

keele.ac.uk/kms

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