BSc Finance

Finance is at the heart of every business, industry and society around the world – and its role has never been more complex. There’s a huge demand for talented, ambitious graduates with the right financial acumen to meet these challenges. This rigorous programme equips you with the necessary financial knowledge and quantitative skills.

You’ll delve into the use of specific finance techniques, financial decision-making, risk management and the behaviour of the financial markets. Importantly, you’ll learn how to think analytically, evaluate financial issues from different perspectives and apply analytical methods to real-world problems.

You’ll be taught by world-leading academics and practitioners in the field. We make the most of our proximity to the city and financial districts and you’ll benefit from our links with industry practitioners, regulators and policymakers.

Our graduates are well-prepared for careers in investment banking, sales, trading, investment management, management consulting, start-ups, research and academia.

If you wish to gain further insight into the subject, we suggest that you look at one of the following books, papers and videos:

• A Admati “Seeing through “the banker’s new clothes””, TEDxStanford
• W Clarke How the City of London Works (7th edition, Sweet and Maxwell, 2008)
• B Graham The Intelligent Investor (HarperBusiness, 2003)
• M Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Penguin, 2011)
• D McCloskey Economical Writing
• PwC: Peer Pressure – How peer-to-peer lending platforms are transforming the consumer lending industry
• H Rey “Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows” IMF Mundell-Fleming Lecture

Annual reviews:

• D Lucas Valuation of Government Policies and Projects
• P M Dechow, R G Sloan, and J Zha Stock Prices and Earnings
• C Frydman and D Jenter CEO Compensation

The Royal Economic Society Public Lectures:

• T Harford “How to run – or ruin – an economy”
• S Flanders “The UK economy after the crisis”
• R Griffith “Does Starbucks pay enough tax?”