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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Cambridge Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
4 Year
From financial management to applied econometrics, our Finance with Economics degree will set you up for a career in the world of business. You want the space to grasp new ideas, to explore the theory behind financial economics and its use in the real world.Finance and economics isn’t just about numbers. It’s about understanding the importance of those numbers, analysing and interpreting them to better appreciate how people and the businesses around us really work.Our BSc (Hons) Finance with Economics degree will introduce you to financial management, applied econometrics and much more. We’ll guide you through the issues you might encounter and equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to formulate critical business decisions. At ARU, we’re helping to develop the next generation of business practitioners and thinkers.We know that your future career is important and you want to build your CV. So we’ll encourage you to grab every opportunity for real-world experience – this could mean a placement year in the industry as part of your course or taking the chance to study abroad.Our Finance with Economics degree course in Cambridge will set you up with all the theoretical and practical knowledge you’ll need in your career.
This module presents a fusion between the philosophies which underlie marketing, with a strong emphasis of integrating digital and traditional concepts and the real life application of marketing across a variety of sectoral contexts. You'll examine the core marketing concept of customer value and the interplay between marketing and sustainability and the ethical challenges and critiques of modern marketing. You'll gain a wide range of knowledge across a breadth of sectors and be able to adapt these to whatever career or future research you choose. On completion of the module you'll have not only a solid grounding in marketing philosophies and theories but also a critical view of marketing, based around the realisation of the reality of modern digital marketing operations and management in a context of increasing global economic challenges, but also within a context where the customer profile is shifting to become increasingly demanding, critical and questioning of the motivations and ethics behind the marketers activities.
You'll explore the factors that affect business, from a mostly external perspective, including elements of globalisation and international business and the fundamental skills needed in the world of business. Political, Economics, Social, Legal, Ecological and Technological factors will be examined in the macro business environment and how these interact in a competitive environment with globalisation, technological and social change to create complex strategic options for organisations. You will also explore in some detail the concept of sustainability and introductory economics.
As an introduction to a broad range of civil legal issues, you'll get an insight and appreciation of the various ways in which the law impacts on the world of commerce and our everyday life. The module provides a foundation across a broad range of fundamental legal principles and concepts of the English Legal System. The rights and obligations of legal entities/individuals under the Law of Contract and the Law of Tort will also be examined.
Finance and business information is the lifeblood of any organisations operations and decisions. You'll work with data and case studies from organisations, meet with businesses to understand the practical use this key information is put to and present your decisions on a going concern or start-up. As you present your analysis of key information and conclusions to other stakeholders, you'll develop your persuasion and negotiation skills.
This module aims to provide essential quantitative skills useful for economists. You'll work with those mathematical tools and methods which are used frequently in economics to provide the mathematical foundations necessary to study second year economics modules such as Micro and Macro Economics and Introduction to Econometrics. You'll begin with revision of basic algebra, covering exponents, roots and logarithms and manipulation of algebraic expressions before progressing on to linear and non-linear equations, matrices, differentiation and unconstrained and constrained optimisation.
You'll be introduced to a range of organisational behaviour issues that you may encounter in your career and be provided with evidence-informed analyses of ways in which culture, leadership, structure and motivation affect workers and workplaces. This foundation enables you to analyse the human side of management and diagnose problems affecting organisations both independently and as part of a group. You'll have the opportunity to take managerial, critical, symbolic-interactivist and feminist perspectives to business issues and organisational behaviour related theories, models and concepts to build your social capital and critical analytical skills. Specifically, we will equip you with the knowledge and human capitals to understand how people and organisations function in individual, group and organisational levels based on the latest academic evidence on topics such as motivation, leadership, teams, organisational structure and culture. Finally, we aim to inspire you to value and continuously use the best available academic evidence on effective management of people and organisations throughout your career.
Financial management is the assessment of the investment and financing decisions of firms and you'll gain knowledge of the theoretical foundations underlying much of financial management practice and learn how those theories should be applied in practice. You'll learn how to apply problem solving and analytical skills to complex and current issues in corporate finance.
The aim of this module is to introduce the tools and concepts necessary to perform empirical research projects based on data analysis, from a practical perspective. You'll get a sound understanding of how to ask questions of data to look at the existence of statistical relationships among different characteristics or variables. Most questions will be on the possible existence of statistical relationships among different characteristics or variables in the data sets. As datasets are most often samples of an original population, you'll focus on how to extend empirical findings from the sampling data to statistical statements about the populations, how to collect, manage and prepare secondary data for a research project and using the econometrics software Stata. You'll test your hypotheses using the linear regression model, an essential step to understand differences between causation and correlation and be introduced to the concepts of Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. Every topic will be accompanied by a practical computer workshop, where you'll use basic commands of Stata software to produce an independent empirical research project.
In this module you'll build your knowledge of those factors affecting firms and countries performance. You'll discuss the theoretical explanations offered by economists and social scientists and examines the writing of leading experts. By the end of the modules you'll be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative explanations of firms strategies, performance and countries economic growth and development. Within Micro Economics you'll look at the way in which varying decision-making units make decisions, the fundamental concepts that underpin these and the firms' input and output decisions based on profit maximisation and cost minimization in different market sessions. You'll explore customer choice based on utility maximisation and how it applies to the labour market as well as game theory approaches and asymmetric information problems, such as adverse selection, moral hazard and principle-agent problems. In Macro Economics you'll consider determination of national income, the workings of the monetary system, causes and consequences of inflation and the reasons behind unemployment. You'll explore in more detail the determinants of positive, zero and negative growth as well as how growth and development are affected by changes in population numbers, resources, infrastructure, innovation, government intervention and stability. You'll understand how economists are able to define, evaluate, measure and attempt to boost employment, economic growth and development to reduce inflation and public debt.
Project management is a key skill for any future professional. This module focuses on providing a sound basis for managing or working on projects. In essence, the concept of managing a project hinging on one quite basic principle, managing the triangle of: quality of the project outcomes, cost and time. The module covers: Project Management Body of Knowledge; the importance of stakeholder and risk management; scheduling and costing; monitoring and controlling techniques, time management and resource optimisation; improving the success of projects; and the principles of agile project management.
Your placement year is a chance to put everything you've learnt in Years 1 and 2 into practice. Spend up to nine months working for an organisation, developing your skills and gaining valuable work experience.
You'll gain a rigorous grounding in the theory and practice of corporate finance at an advanced level with an emphasis on the applications of the principles and a thorough synthesis of the most important current research. Both normative and positive aspects of the theory are examined, together with supporting descriptive and empirical evidence from various implications in practice. You'll focus on key aspects of the financial operations related to maximising the valuation of a corporation in an international financial environment. Principles that corporations use in their investment and financing decision-making are reviewed and evaluated using practical examples. You'll be introduced to the wider corporate financial operations, including hedging and financial derivatives, including financial leverage and capital structure, portfolio and evaluation models, mergers and acquisitions, business valuations, foreign exchange market, forward and money market hedging, financial futures and options, interest rate swaps. This module is part of a broader programme offering support for you to study for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CBI). You'll develop the knowledge and skills required in finance, business analysis and banking related professions or to start your own business through practical tasks involving developing financial strategies, conducting a financial analysis and managing foreign currency risks, among others using professional database such as Bloomberg and Osiris, etc. You'll also develop your professional identity by engaging in tasks that enhance your career development and employability.
You'll apply economic theories and methods to current economic or socioeconomic policy issues and think ?outside the box? when addressing these issues. You'll gain an understanding of the original formulation of fundamental analytical and technical methods and theoretical concepts in economics as well as an understanding of the continuing relevance of these methods and concepts. It will provide you with the awareness of the socio-economics issues and allows you to explore economic ideas to inform your participation in discussions and debates on economic affairs of today. You'll engage in informed discussion with specialists and non-specialists alike on issues currently reviving widespread attention in the media and public debate generally.
You'll gain a wide understanding of the theory and practice of financial economics at an advanced level and the importance of it's application. Asset markets with asset prices and microstructure is introduced to provide a rigorous grounding of the financial asset market. Market efficiency and decision making under uncertainty are thoroughly discussed. You'll discuss and empirically appraise the Capital Asset Pricing and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory models alongside discussion on Securities, especially equity and bond. This module is designed for you to be able to pursue further development of economics in financial view. It also supports you studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CBI).
You'll have the opportunity to bring together your learning on live brief assessments and be part of an interdisciplinary team addressing a current issue in business. You'll be presented with a current business issue and be required to research, analyse and evaluate the issue effectively as a team. You'll act as the expert in your field of study to bring the perspective of that specialty to a complex business problem. You'll identify the key problems and issues, conduct literature reviews, evaluate information, investigate and adopt suitable development methodologies, determine solutions, process data, critically appraise and present the findings of your project using a variety of media. You'll create a poster presentation on your project for your team to display, and answer questions on, to an audience of academics and employers at a poster presentation event. You'll write a group business report on the outcomes of your project, evidencing your recommendations alongside an individual piece of reflective work on how you approached the issue, worked successfully as a team member, conducted robust business research and developed sound conclusions and recommendations.
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