BSc International Business, Finance and Economics

The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England. 

In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students. These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.

 The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration.

Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.

The lecture series is structured around three themes.

1.1. Finance Foundations

• Financial Innovation
• Financial Markets
• Finance and the firm
• Derivatives

1.2. Money and Banking

• Theories of banking and money
• Fintech and cryptocurrencies
• Central Banks & Monetary Policy
• Financial Cycles and bubbles

1.3. Finance and social Responsibility.

• Income and wealth distribution
• ESG and Green Finance
• Financial Scandals

 

Core for IBFE.

Pre-requisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Dependent courses: N/A

Core for IBFE.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to  the foundations of finance and associated innovations since the global financial crisis.

To do this we demonstrate

1. The growth and development of new financial actors, new financial products/assets.

2. The impact of finance on organisations and organisational actors

3. The relationship finance has with social responsibility

We aim to get students to discuss the implications of these innovations and to examine the degree of fit between theories of economic innovation and actual case studies of
corporations in an international context.

On completion of this course successful students will be able to:

• Understand finance and the associated innovations  and how they influence International Business.

• Describe different financial innovations and their outcomes over time.

• Critically assess competing theories of economic innovation.

• Carry out independent research and critical analysis.

Methods of delivery:

Lecture hours - 24
Group working - 10
Presentations (4 x 1 hour sessions) - 4
Seminars - 6
Private study: 156

Drop-In-clinics - Open office hours for students to visit the programme coordinator at set times each week.

Total study hours: 200 hours split between lectures, classes, self study and preparation for classes, coursework and group presentation.

Blackboard will be used for lecture slides, workshop questions and solutions, plus discussion

Additional information, including news sources, blogs, YouTube clips, and such like will also be posted, where relevant
 

Informal Contact Methods

1. Office Hours
2. Drop in online surgeries (extra help sessions for students on material they may be struggling with.

 

1 essay on the lecture materials and associated literatures (60%)

1 group presentation of the group project, (Max 10 PowerPoint slides) (40%) - see Note 1 below

- Informal advice and discussion during a lecture, seminar, workshop or lab.

- Responses to student emails and questions from a member of staff including feedback provided to a group via an online discussion forum.

- Specific course related feedback sessions.

- Written and/or verbal comments on assessed or non-assessed coursework.

- Generic feedback posted on Blackboard regarding overall examination performance.

Core Text

Coggan, P. (2009) The Money Machine: How the City works, revised and updated edition, Penguin books

Shiller, R. (2012) Finance and the Good Society, Princeton University Press

 

 

Pre-requisites: N/A
Co-requisites: N/A
Dependent courses: N/A

Programme Restrictions: available to 1st year IBFE students only.

For Academic Year 2023/24

Updated: March 2023

Approved by: May UG Committee