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BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS // FINANCIAL
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CHOOSE YOUR QUALIFICATION
WAIKATO MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS // FINANCIAL
The Bachelor of Business Analysis – Financial is a professionally recognised specialist degree that will
prime you for a career in the areas of accounting, economics and fi nance.
Why do a BBA?
This uniquely focused programme offers you an alternative
business degree to management studies if numbers and their
meaning are your game.
The BBA(Fin) is a three-year degree with a particular emphasis
on financial management, so you can get your qualification
and get on with investment banking or stock broking or any
number of financial sector careers. Rather than covering
the broader aspects of business management, you’ll look in
depth at the quantitative (math based) disciplines.
Your first major will be in accounting, economics or finance
and it’s strongly recommended that you also choose a
second major. While this can be in any subject, you’ll really
focus your qualification if you take a second major in another
BBA subject; you can study any combination of two of the
three subjects, such as accounting and finance, or economics
and accounting. Other good second major subjects include
statistics, mathematics or computing.
If you choose to major in accounting, you can use this degree
(with either an Honours year or a Graduate Diploma), as a
route to meet the academic requirements for membership of
the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
Majors
FINA201 FINA201 FINA201 FINA201
ECON200 ECON200 ECON200 ECON200 ECON200 ECON200
A major is a group of papers in a specialist area or subject.
You must take one major (called your first major) and you
can choose whether you take a second.
Choose from
FEATURES OF THE BBA(Fin)
Specialist financial management degree
Meets industry demands for specialist financial analysts
Can meet NZICA requirements with an additional fourth year
(either Honours or Graduate Diploma)
Approved by the CPA Australia
Overseas exchanges available
Accounting Economics Finance
Your second major can be chosen from any undergraduate
subject; this choice may mean that you need to take extra
papers. If you choose to take a second major you will need
to carefully plan your programme in the first year, as you will
need to take a year one paper at 200 level for your second
major. You might like to consider law, mathematics, statistics
or computer science as a second major; if you are thinking of
this option talk to a Management Student Centre Advisor for
further information. The inside back cover of this publication
provides MSC’s contact details.
DEGREE PLANNER – BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS – FINANCIAL (BBA(Fin))
Accounting for
Management
Business
Economics and
the New Zealand
Economy
Management
Mathematics
Information
Systems and
Supply Chain
Management
Management
Statistics
Introduction to
Management
ACCT101 ECON100 MATH166 MSYS111 STAT160 STMG191
Macroeconomics
and the Global
Economy
Finance
ECON200 FINA201
COMPULSORY PAPERS
Key papers that must be passed.
COMPULSORY MAJOR PAPERS
The subject in which you specialise.
STMG191 STMG191
SECOND MAJOR/ ELECTIVE PAPERS
You can choose to take a second specialist subject or just select individual papers.
In addition to the 20 papers shown above you’ll also take writing and computing modules.
These modules will develop your skills and show potential employers you can handle day to day tasks.