Arts (Finance)

Finance is a stimulating and challenging discipline that offers a wide range of exciting and dynamic careers across the financial industry. The finance sector has grown in terms of complexity as it meets the needs of increasingly international, technologically complex and data-driven markets.

Key Features

• By studying this Arts (Finance) course from Maynooth University , you will acquire a wide range of skills that can be applied to problems faced by agents ranging from entrepreneurs who need to fund their ideas to investors seeking the best opportunities to grow their wealth, from private investment banks who engineer innovative financial products to regulators tasked with protecting the industry and from individuals searching for a mortgage to multinational firms seeking to finance their operations. The study of finance opens the door to a myriad of diverse career opportunities.

• Students will cover the basic concepts, empirical methods and applications in investment, derivatives, international finance and econometrics as well as choosing field courses of interest from a range of optional modules such as corporate finance, fixed income markets and financial accounting.

Career Options

• After this 1-year intensive Arts (Finance) course fromMaynooth University, graduates will be well-equipped with the skills to begin a career in the financial sector. This is a high-growth, constantly-evolving sector with diverse career opportunities at home and abroad.

• Graduates who wish to continue their studies may pursue one of the MSc programs subject to meeting the entry requirements.

• Graduates of this program are currently enjoying successful careers in Investment and Retail Banking, Portfolio Fund Management, Professional Accountancy, Corporate Recovery, Regulatory Agencies, NGOs, Government service, Stockbroking, Bond trading in the private sector. Others have taken up research positions at the Central Bank of Ireland, some continue to PhD programs to pursue an academic career. The diverse careers of the graduates reflect the adaptability and flexibility of the graduates.

Courses include:

• Econometrics
• Investments (Portfolio Selection and Analysis)
• Financial Accounting For Non-accountants
• Financial Modelling
• Intermediate Quantitative Analysis For Economics And Business