Foundations of Finance

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the importance and use of hedging in financial markets, as well as now to value them
• what money is, its use in financial markets and the importance of ethical finance
• understanding the key theories of finance

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate effective written and/or oral communication
• demonstrate competence generally in numerical analysis and problem solving

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply key understanding of finance topics such as compounding, the time value of money and the purpose of the financial system

Ethical Finance

Compounding and Discounting

Banking and Money

Arrow-Debreu security

Cost of capital

An introduction to financial risk management.

An introduction to the relationship between risk and return

Hedging

• Lectures.
• Weekly classes.
• Workshops.
• Private Study, including reading and working computational problems.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback from in-class activities will be provided in the classes and further feedback can be sought from the module leader during their office hours.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.