Finance is a decision-oriented discipline that is complex, challenging and dynamic. It's about managing money and capital expenditures in the real world: making practical financial decisions that can lead to loss or gain.
Finance focuses on two main areas: portfolio theory & investments (the management and pricing of financial securities) and corporate financial management (how businesses make financial decisions, particularly when choosing investment projects and how to pay for them).
(Note: Finance is not the same as accounting. Whereas accounting records and reports historical transactions, finance is concerned with how markets value risk and the implications for investment, financial planning, shareholder wealth and corporate governance.)
This major is available for the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom).
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Did you know?
Two recent trends have fuelled the value of finance as a mature, globally recognised profession and underpin its relevance for the 21st Century.
The first is the world-wide move to deregulation and the opening of markets which has coincided with an almost universal appreciation of the importance of capital and investment for growth and prosperity.
The second is the rapid growth of theoretical developments in the discipline which has provided the tools to manage risk and return.
The impact has been extreme. There are few businesses today that are not acutely aware of the significance of markets and financial planning for their viability.
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Career opportunities
Graduates work in investment and trading banks, sharebroking firms, government departments, chartered accounting firms, professional organisations, research units, investment consultancies, international agencies and as specialists in the private sector.
Overseas there are opportunities in financial centres, with a high demand in London, Asia and Sydney.
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Further info
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Department of Finance
level 5, Commerce Building
University of Otago
PO Box 56, Dunedin |
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