Degree type: BA (Hons)
UCAS Code: NN13 BA/BusFin
Duration: 4 years (full-time)
How to Apply
Why choose this course?
The Finance and Business course allows you to specialise in finance within the general framework of a business and management degree. This give you a cutting edge when it comes to planning your career. You will develop the knowledge and skills required for challenging roles in finance, and your understanding of complex business and management issues will give you flexibility that will put you a step ahead of others.
The emphasis in years one and two is on the development of knowledge and understanding of core principles and concepts of finance, and the development of a fundamental understanding of the role of financial processes and of the analytical approaches of economics and management accounting within business. You will consider real business scenarios and analyse the links between business and financial decisions.
In years three and four, attention focuses more specifically on the challenge of managing an organisation’s finances, in ever more complex organisational, strategic and economic contexts, characterised by fast moving information technologies, and global competition.
In your fourth year, you will develop more specialised areas of interest including through your dissertation, but you will also explore the ethical, social and environmental aspects of finance and accounting. You will see how multinational corporations manage their strategies and risks, and you will be able to carry out independent research.
How you learn
You will take part in seminars and tutorials where you explore business scenarios and develop solutions and recommendations to the sorts of challenges faced by large and small businesses. Lectures will support the development of your expert knowledge and will challenge you to think critically.
As you progress to years three and four, you will have more opportunity to direct your own studies, developing your own interests within subject areas, and choosing your own reading and approach to your work. In other words, you will develop the skills of independent research and problem solving that you will need to deal with a whole range of issues facing today’s managers.
You will also, throughout your studies, develop your skills in teamwork, project management and online working and other relevant skills expected of managers today.
How you are assessed
A variety of assessment methods are used on this course, such as class tests, problem solving exercises and examinations, and you will produce reports and presentations as well as essays. Your assessment will combine individual and group tasks.
Higher BBC; A Level DDD; ILC (H) BBC; UCAS Tariff 168-180 points*
*See UCAS Tariff Guidance below
Essential subjects: literate subject (e.g. English).
Advanced entry (Year 2)
Advanced Higher BBC (including a B in Business Management); A Level BBC (including Economics or Business Studies)
UCAS Tariff Guidance
Although there is no limit to the number of points that you can accumulate, for entry to Abertay you must have qualifications at an appropriate level (SCQF 6/NQF 3); you cannot count the same or similar qualifications twice; Standard Grades, Intermediate 2s, GCSEs and key/core skills cannot be counted; and D grades at SQA Higher and Advanced Higher are not counted.
Applicants who have taken either SQA Highers or A Levels must offer at least three Highers or two A Levels for degree entry (or two Highers or one A Level for DipHE entry). If you have studied a subject at two different levels, the most advanced will be taken into consideration; e.g. if you studied both Higher Biology and Advanced Higher Biology, then only the Advanced Higher will be counted.
Overseas/EU
All applicants are required to provide certified proof of competence in English Language and the University's minimum requirements are listed here
Mature
Applications from mature students are assessed on the same criteria used for school leavers, e.g. SQA Highers or GCE A Levels, where relevant school leaving qualifications exist. For those without standard entry qualifications, consideration is given to experience gained as well as professional qualifications and other forms of learning that could provide evidence of ability to benefit from a particular course.
The successful completion of approved access courses (such as those offered by Dundee College in association with the universities of Abertay, Dundee and St Andrews) provides significant evidence of ability to benefit from study at Abertay.
For further advice please use our Ask a Question section.
Your future
The course offers a wide choice of career opportunities in both finance and business and general business - in general management and in more specialist roles in public and private sector organisations, including the financial services sector. Graduates from this course have gone on to work for well-known companies, both in the UK and in the international arena.
Accreditation
The course provides exemptions from a number of papers for the Chartered Insitute of Management Accountants (CIMA) examinations. Full details can be found on the CIMA website.
| Fee Category | September 2012 Fees |
Scholarships & Bursaries |
| Scottish and other EU students |
The 2012 fee will be announced Apply to the Student Awards Agency |
Other forms of support |
| English, Welsh and Northern Irish students |
£7000 per year (max. amount payable You can apply for financial assistance, |
Bursaries & Scholarships |
| Overseas (non EU) students |
£9975 per year. Fees may be subject to annual increase. |
Overseas Scholarships |
Fees shown are payable annually, and may be subject to increase each year.
