You will study how firms and consumers behave in different market settings, how capital markets operate and how financing decisions can improve the performance and efficiency of organisations. You will learn to interpret, communicate and apply financial information, appraise alternative investment opportunities and to evaluate and devise an optimal portfolio of assets. You will obtain a thorough understanding of decision making within financial and capital markets and the type of financial instruments that are traded in these markets, and how these markets interact with the economy as a whole. By combining both economics and finance, you will develop a range of skills to enable organisations to improve strategic decision making, portfolio planning and risk management.

Graduates enter fields as diverse as banking, accountancy, financial management, insurance and marketing and others are employed in more general management positions.