FINANCE at Canterbury Christ Church University

With financial issues regularly making headline news, there is no better time to study finance. You will analyse and explore contemporary developments and innovation in corporate finance, econometrics, financial decision making, financial analysis and financial markets.

You will gain an excellent preparation for ‘city’ roles in financial services, banking and accounting as well as in wider business. Additionally, you will have the chance to combine Finance with discipline-specific modules to give you the flexibility to pursue a range of roles requiring an understanding of finance.

You will explore areas including:

• business analysis
• economics
• financial accounting for professionals.

Why Finance?

With financial issues regularly making headline news, there is no better time to study finance. Our course analyses and explores contemporary developments and innovation in corporate finance, financial decision making, financial analysis and financial markets. It is an excellent preparation for ‘city’ roles in financial services, banking, accounting as well as in wider business.

This course can also be combined with other discipline specific modules so that post graduation you have the flexibility to pursue roles requiring an understanding of finance, without committing to a role in this field.

On all of our finance degree courses, knowledge, critical analysis and interpersonal skills are developed through lectures, seminars, workshops and a variety of assessment modes. These satisfy academic, professional, and commercial requirements. Guest speakers are regularly invited to address our students, and we promote student interaction with businesses through various employability events that we organise throughout the year.

Who is this course for?

This course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge of contemporary business to enable you to embark on a career in financial services sector of the economy. You will develop a range of transferable business skills including communication, IT, research and team working, which are essential for any career in any organisation. The course will also help you develop the knowledge necessary for postgraduate study and career development within the accounting and finance field.

What will i study?

The first year of study provides the essential foundation on which financial specialisms are based. Year two builds on the concepts and practices learned in year one, exploring a variety of subjects that include econometrics, foundations of finance and financial services. Year three focuses on strategic issues and introduces the global dimension.

Work experience

Our Finance degrees respond to the needs of the contemporary accounting profession. We offer our students the opportunity to spend a year on professional work placement which is supported by a dedicated Placement Officer within our Business School.

Students are also have opportunity to take the work based learning module in year two designed to help develop  skills in seeking and obtaining a work placement or internship of a minimum of three weeks’ duration.