Module description
Aims and objectives:
The purpose of this module is:
- To introduce key concepts in finance and offer a general understanding of how markets work.
- Provide insights into both the role and history of key financial institutions and consider their role in managing important finance and economic issues such as trade, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, regulations, economic, stability and growth.
- Consider the business challenges of managing a multinational enterprise from a financial perspective, including cash management, exchange rates, taxation, country level risk, capital raising and investment appraisal.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, students will have attained:
- A conceptual understanding of portfolio theory and why the covariance of risk and returns plays an important role in the globalisation of financial markets.
- The ability to critically reflect upon the role of key financial institutions in society and why these institutions come under scrutiny.
- An academic awareness of different perspectives in finance, including the knowledge of behavioural finance and why markets and people are not always rational.
- Awareness of how to raise and protect investment in an international context.
- A broad understanding of the various financial instruments that exist to mitigate risk for multinational enterprises as they attempt to manage uncertainty.
Assessment details
Group Project (30%)
Individual Assessment (70%)
Teaching pattern
Suggested reading list
Core text book: Pike, R., Neale, B., Akbar, S. And Linsley, P. (2019) Introduction to Finance. Ninth Edition. Harlow: Pearson. (Custom publication for King's College London. Edited by McFaull, London: Pearson. Please note that purchasing the course textbook and MyFinance Lab (which comes with the textbook) is highlight recommended, but not a course requirement.