The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC)
BSc Business Administration in Financial Management
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NEXT START DATE: 04 Jul 2022 -
CREDITS: 120 -
STARTING AT $2,400 USD PER
YEAR
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Prepare for a career in finance
Specialise in the lucrative field of finance with a BSc Business Administration in Financial Management from the UCC – an ASIC Premier Institution.
This degree has been designed to give you a broad-based education in business to give you the knowledge on fundamental principles of the organisation as a whole, whilst deepening your skills in financial management to prepare you for a career in this sector.
If your career ambitions lie in accountancy, UCC is accredited by ACCA and this degree will give you exemption from some Level 1 courses upon successful completion.
What you'll learn
The course content of this degree has an international outlook, making it a truly global programme. You will develop a thorough grounding in financial management and analysis, whilst developing critical skills applicable to real-world professional situations.
Gain a solid foundation of business knowledge to understand the organisation as a whole
Deepen your knowledge of finance with specialist modules that prepare you for your career
Develop critical financial skills that will prepare you for the modern work environment
Modules
Alongside the core modules below, throughout your degree you will also choose two additional elective modules to study from other bachelor's programmes.
Academic Writing I
This is a writing course focusing on expository writings. Basic editing principles are covered and applied to all writing. Selected essays are read and examined as examples of the expository styles to improve critical reading skills, grammar skills, and essay writing. Research techniques and documentation are also emphasised as methods to enhance writing.
Computer Information Systems
This introductory course provides the necessary background for understanding the role of information systems in organisations and for using computer tools and technology in solving business problems. The main concepts covered include: types and categories of computers; software and hardware components; storage; computer networks; and operating systems, with an emphasis on analysing problems and creating solutions. In the practical section of the course, you will gain hands-on experience using Office productivity tools.
Introduction to Business Administration
This course will introduce you to the fundamental principles of business administration. It examines the factors that lead towards the successful administration of a business, and the leadership skills and behaviours necessary for achieving organisational goals and objectives. It is designed to examine modern management challenges organisations face, and provides an explanation of various types of planning and decision-making tools that can aid in attaining success. The course will cover both the traditional and current thinking relating to management concepts and theories. Additionally, the course is structured to increase your knowledge of the fundamentals of organising, influencing, communication, motivation and human resource management.
Introduction to Sociology
This introductory course seeks to provide an overview of sociology as a discipline. It lays the foundation for you to apply the various theoretical perspectives to contemporary social problems, especially relating to the world of work.
Financial Accounting
This course seeks to provide you with the capacity to indulge in professional accounting work. It is particularly important for students who intend to continue with further accounting studies. The aim is to provide you with the requisite financial accounting skills necessary for progress in personal and private business. This course will form the bridge for studies in modules such as Cost Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Management.
Introduction to Psychology
This introductory course in psychology is designed to give you a basic understanding of human behaviour. You will learn the major psychological theories that will allow you to explain and predict human behaviour. The emphasis will be on examining your behaviour and the behaviour of others within an organisational context.
Principles of Microeconomics
This course introduces you to basic microeconomic principles. It also provides an understanding of how prices are formed in markets, how markets function, the behaviour of individual buyers and sellers, models of decision making for individuals and companies and the application of basic economic theories to real-life situations and problems.
Academic Writing II
This module is an introduction to the analysis of critical thinking. The module aims to impart a skill in the ability to recognise and to construct common types of cogent and non-cogent reasoning in a structured and written way.
Public Speaking
The course is designed to integrate theory and practice in preparing professionals for public speaking assignments. You will be provided with the opportunity to develop skills in the preparation and delivery of speeches for specific types of professional occasions.
Principles of Marketing
The aim of this course is to enable you to understand how to develop a marketing plan for new ventures. The skills and knowledge learnt will enable you to identify which marketing techniques and theories are most suitable for new ventures, whether they are for creating a new business or within an existing organisation. This course examines the theory and practice of marketing for entrepreneurial ventures. This course provides a roadmap for you to employ the tools and techniques of entrepreneurial marketing to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
Introduction to Politics
This course exposes you to the nature and main forms of Caribbean political institutions and government, as well as the region’s significant culture manifestations. This course does not assume prior knowledge of core concepts. It introduces you to the major methods, approaches and issues of political science, helping to give you grounding in the conceptual and practical fundamentals of the discipline. It provides a comprehensive overview of the following areas of study: the nature of politics and its phenomena; the major processes and arrangements which shape political behaviour; involvement and perspectives; the challenges posed to and adaptations made by existing political systems; and, through a comparative approach with the Caribbean, the organisation of political systems in other countries and an evaluation of how well their structures and processes work.
College Algebra
This course will expose you to principles of algebra for the college level. You will gain an understanding of numerical and algebraic relationships and be able to formulate problems into mathematical terms, select, apply and communicate appropriate techniques of solution and interpret the solutions in terms of the problem.
Legal Concepts for Commerce
The course will examine key legal concepts and elements that govern business structures, business transactions and interactions between persons, companies or a combination of both.
Introduction to Literature
This will introduce you to the traditional genre classifications of literature - prose, poetry, and drama - because these categories provide a convenient and logical structure for an introductory study of literature. Additionally, the course seeks to emphasise the universality and diversity of imaginative literature as an expression of ideas and emotions, readings, culture, ideas and even language itself through works from various cultures and from differing segments of society, as well as from a variety of time periods.
Business Communication
This course works in conjunction with Academic Writing and Public Speaking to provide you with an understanding of the role of the professional as a communicator in the business environment. It introduces you to common forms of professional writing and speaking in specific business situations focusing on how to sell your ideas to audiences, readers and listeners.
Ethics
This course is designed to ensure that you are aware of the relationship between ethical conduct and business practice and that you know the ethical theories, standards and practices as they relate to the general conduct of business and their interaction with employees, customers and the public at large.
Cost Accounting
This course is intended to expose you to current cost accounting theories and practice, so that you are able to use accounting data in planning and controlling business activities. These concepts are necessary for improving your analytical and critical thinking skills in reporting cost information. The intention is to develop students who are ready and capable to occupy accounting positions in the business world.
Project Management
This course is intended to ensure that you learn the different project management techniques and are able to apply them appropriately as the situation demands in order to meet the objectives, budgetary targets and specifications of the business organisation.
Introduction to Business & Economic Statistics
This course provides an introduction of basic concepts and principles of statistics and the application of these principles in a variety of business settings to assist managers in decision making and problem solving.
Entrepreneurship
This course introduces you to the fundamental principles of entrepreneurship. It examines the factors that lead towards entrepreneurial success, and the skills and behaviours necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. It is designed to explain what entrepreneurship is or is not, its relevance to sustainability in modern societies and its contribution to the success of existing firms, in relation to achieving the bottom-line. The course will cover the theory and practice relating to starting and managing a new business, the development of an effective new venture business plan, and the types of financing available to entrepreneurs. Additionally, the course is structured to increase your knowledge of strategy development, entrepreneurial financing and risk assessment. With this preparation, you will be in a better position to achieve success at entrepreneurial ventures.
Organisational Theory & Behaviour
This introductory course exposes you to the basic theories that attempt to explain how people behave in organisations and the structure and culture of business organisations.
Principles of Macroeconomics
As consumers, workers, students and citizens, economics affect all our lives. The decisions made by government, businesses and society at large affect everyone. It is therefore vital for everyone to have some basic knowledge of economics. When students are aware of the social, political and financial context in which the economy operates, they are able to develop reasonable opinions on a variety of business and public issues. You will find that the study of economics will develop and sharpen your decision-making capabilities by exposing you to logical ways to evaluate alternative decisions. Students doing macroeconomics should have been exposed to the basic principles of microeconomics which would have formed the foundation for entry into macroeconomics.
Calculus I
This module is designed to develop knowledge of differential and integral calculus. Emphasis is placed on limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of algebraic and transcendental functions of one variable. Upon completion, you should be able to select and use appropriate models and techniques for finding solutions to derivative-related and integral-related problems with and without technology.
Financial Management
Provides not only a knowledge of the terminology, theory and analytical techniques of corporate financial management, but also ethics, interpretation of data using ratio analysis, valuation principles of money and stock, analysis of risk and return, and capital investment decisions.
Company Law
This course examines the increasing significance of business organisations in contemporary society. It addresses fundamental issues of the law affecting these organisations, including the idea that a company is a distinct ‘person’. The course considers the powers and duties of those involved in companies, and the consequences of a company failing to meet relevant legal standards of conduct.
Portfolio Management
This introduction to portfolio management theory lays out the different types of investor characteristics and their implications for portfolio construction. This course also teaches the basics of fixed income, equity and money market securities.
Financial Markets & Analysis
This course is designed to equip you with theoretical and practical knowledge to analyse the financial markets and instruments traded on these markets. This involves an examination of local and international financial markets.
Financial Statement Analysis
This course is a study of the process of business analysis and valuation of financial statements.
Strategic Management
This introduces you to the importance of strategic management for effective and successful leadership. The course will demonstrate the range of analysis required for strategy formulation, show how to align company strategy with both industry and competitive conditions, and how to implement a winning strategy.
Advanced Financial Management
This course is designed for students pursuing a finance management major. You will examine principles and practices of financial management including the financial environment, financial statement analysis, risk and return and cost of capital projects. This coverage helps you to understand the financial environment in which businesses operate so you can become a more effective decision maker.
Securities Analysis
The focus of this course is on the financial theory for making investment decisions and the factors that influence the pricing of financial assets. The main topics include portfolio theory, securities market instruments, risk and return, modern portfolio concepts, common stock valuation, market efficiency, and derivative securities.
International Economics
This course exposes you to international trade and the global market place. You will learn how exchange rates are established and varied, about the balance of payment and balance of trade, and how countries position themselves to be competitive in the global environment.
Quantitative Methods
This course is designed to expose you to quantitative concepts, basic statistical tools, and mathematical modelling. You will learn how to gather data from numerous sources for problem solving and decision making.
Risk Analysis and Management
You will obtain the tools used today by corporations, non-profit, and government agencies to manage risks. A systematic process will be learned to help you decide whether or not to retain or transfer an exposure to loss. You will also examine the major concepts in risk identification, including risk mapping and quantifying losses, and risk financing.
Game Theory
This is an introduction to strategic thinking applied to managerial situations. By understanding the theory and concepts of game theory, you will be able to apply a coherent and logical framework to help analyse reasonably complex business situations. The ultimate viewpoint is one which focuses on the strategic interactions between different parties.
Calculus II
This is an advanced course in calculus and serves as a follow-up course from Calculus I. The course is designed to allow you to further develop problem-solving skills required for further studies and for the working environment. You will learn the advanced principles and theorems of calculus using a practical approach.
Introduction to Research
This course exposes you to the traditions of research, the concepts of quantitative and qualitative research, the designing of a research question and or the hypothesis, and the main aspects of conducting research.
Corporate Finance
This course is designed to allow all finance majors to master the treatment of corporate finance concepts. Corporate finance is an advanced finance course that covers the essential aspects of corporate financial decisions. These decisions include choosing between competing investment alternatives, how much debt to issue, how much equity to issue, measuring risk and return, determining the level of dividend to payout and working capital policy management.
Career opportunities
Skilled finance professionals are essential for the effective operation of all businesses, and there are a range of career paths you could go into.
Financial Analyst
Financial Modeler
Risk Analysis
Research Analyst
Entry requirements
Secondary (High) School diploma, GED, or Certificate of Equivalency / Proficiency or Passes in 5 GCE O Level / CSEC passes at A, B or C / I,II or III (including Mathematics and English) or International Baccalaureate (IB) or equivalent (subject to UCC Global’s approval)
Students who have successfully completed undergraduate program credits may be eligible to transfer up to 60 of those credits to the UCC Global program. Final determination on the eligibility of the transfer of credits will be made once your application and transcript(s) are received, reviewed, and approved by UCC Global.
English language requirements
The language of instruction at UCC Global is English. Applicants whose most recent education was not in English will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency, through the completion of an approved English testing regime such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Both TOEFL paper-based (PBT) and TOEFL Internet-based (IBT) will be accepted.
Fees
You have the option to either pay for your degree in full at the start, or pay per module.
Students based in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean will be eligible for scholarships.
International price
Total cost: $5,600 USD
per year
Cost per module: $700 USD
Regional price
Total cost: $4,000 USD
per year
Cost per module: $500 USD
Jamaican price
Total cost: $2,400 USD per year
Cost per module: $300 USD