2009 Undergraduate & Graduate Prospectus - PDF - Waikato ...

FINANCE
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CHOOSE YOUR SUBJECT
WAIKATO MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
FINANCE
Interested in a great career that centres on money? Compound your opportunities with Finance.
How do foreign exchange dealers handle the volatile kiwi
dollar? Why do share values go up and down? If you study
Finance you’ll understand money, banking, investments
and credit. Bankers, financial planners, corporate treasury
departments, sharebrokers and the Reserve Bank are some
of the players in the finance industry.
It isn’t possible to run a treasury or an investment fund, or
structure the financing of a project, or even invest personally,
without some understanding of finance theory and practice.
Finance students learn about investment decision-making
when time and risk are key considerations, they gain the skills
to examine corporate finance, portfolios and markets, small
business finance, financial modeling and personal financial
planning.
Make a safe investment in Waikato Management School. We
were rated top in New Zealand for accounting and finance
research in the Tertiary Education Commission’s latest
assessment of tertiary research.
You can choose to study Finance in the
Bachelor of Management Studies page 33
Bachelor of Management Studies (Honours) page 36
Bachelor of Business Analysis – Financial page 43
Bachelor of Business Analysis (Honours) – Financial page 46
Graduate Certificate page 57
Graduate Diploma page 57
Postgraduate Certificate page 58
Postgraduate Diploma page 58
Master of Management Studies page 60
Finance can also be taken as a second major for most other
University of Waikato undergraduate degrees.
JAMES GILL (BMS)
Finance student, golfer
James Gill has been doing the rounds. After uni he took some time
off to play golf. In fact, he took 15 months to see the world and
win three titles and six other major tournaments across 14 different
countries. He’s now studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance
at the prestigious (and golf mad) St Andrew’s University in Scotland.
James knew his golf would make the cut, but he was nervous
he wouldn’t be up-to-par in the classroom. “It’s one of the UK’s
leading academic universities, but I was surprised how well Waikato
Management School and my BMS degree prepared me. If anything
I was a step ahead of the other students because of the different
areas of business I’d already studied.”
When he’s finished at St Andrews, James wants to turn pro.
But should he decide to settle down at some stage he thinks
he’ll be well equipped. “Finance opens doors. I'm sure my
degree and postgraduate diploma will hold me in very good
stead in the job market.”
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Commercial and Investment Banking
Corporate Finance Investment Advisor
Financial Analysis Sharebroking
Financial Management Treasury
Finance Papers Include
Finance
Electronic Finance
Microeconomics and Business Economics
Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance
Business Analysis and Valuation
Personal Financial Planning
Corporate Finance
Portfolios and Markets
Capital Markets
International Corporate Finance
Applied Project in Finance
Econometrics
Managerial Economics and Strategy
Markets, Competition and Organisation
Economics of Electronic Commerce and Networks
Small Business Finance
Derivative Securities
Computer Modelling in Finance
Finance Theory
Derivatives
Financial Theory and Corporate Policy
Investments and Portfolios
Property Finance
Advanced Financial Modeling
Econometric Topics: Forecasting and Finance
International Finance
Financial Economics
Research Methods in Economics and Finance